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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Pastor Joshua Manning is waiting for test results, but he can tell by the persistent fever and body aches that he probably has the coronavirus. His wife and three kids have symptoms, too, and so many members of his Community Baptist Church in tiny Noel, Missouri, are infected that he’s closing…

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Rebellion is infectious. Rural people are in revolt against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide virus-fighting rules, which make little sense in burgs such as Bieber.Bieber has hardly anything in common with the likes of Burbank or Balboa.“There’s a bar, a restaurant, a hardware store, market, post office, school and a gas station with one pump,” says…

Resistance to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s extension of his statewide stay-at-home order grew Thursday, with a church in northwest Illinois filing a federal lawsuit contending that Pritzker’s executive actions have demonstrated “illegal and discriminatory hostility to religious practice, churches, and people of faith.” The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Beloved Church, a roughly 80-person…

Nicole Snider opens the Northern Treasure thrift store on Monday, April 27, 2020 in Roundup, Mont. The store had been closed for a month under a coronavirus directive from the state's governor. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Nicole Snider, right, makes a sale to Shannon Thompson at the Northern Treasure thrift store on Monday April 27, 2020…