Time to end this colossally stupid game of Russian roulette we football-addicted Southerners keep playing, and losing, against the coronavirus.

As the new academic year arrives, school systems across the United States are struggling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Roman Catholic educators have an extra challenge — trying to forestall a relentless wave of closures of their schools that has no end in sight.

More than 80 students in a Tennessee school district have been quarantined during the first week of classes after a student tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, officials said.

Whether a return to school will worsen the COVID-19 pandemic is an experiment playing out across Tennessee and the nation, and it begins in Hamilton County this Wednesday.

The Ohio governor's positive, then negative, tests for COVID-19 have provided fuel for skeptics of government pandemic mandates and critics of his often-aggressive policies.

A total of nine students and staff members at a Georgia high school have tested positive for the coronavirus, the principal said in a letter to parents after the school made headlines for online photos showing hallways packed with teens — many of them not wearing masks.

With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. hitting 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe.

Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond will not commit to being tested for the coronavirus or enforcing the county's mask mandate after being photographed not wearing a mask at a crowded GOP event last week and questioning the effectiveness of the masks.

Six students in the Chattooga County, Georgia, school district have tested positive for COVID-19.

The coronavirus pandemic has significantly altered Americans' dining habits, but perhaps no segment of the restaurant industry has been affected as much as self-serve buffets.

Who knew that being a former band geek would one day come in handy.

When you're super-hungry and want to pile up your plate without a wait, nothing satisfies like a buffet. A seemingly endless line of food is yours for the taking.

The nation's leading health insurers are experiencing an embarrassment of profits.

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part.

For decades, thousands of vendors have fanned out along roadsides from Alabama to Michigan each summer to haggle over the prices of old Coca-Cola bottles, clothes, toys, knives and more at The World's Longest Yard Sale.

A Georgia high school student said her five-day suspension for sharing images of crowded conditions on campus was lifted on Friday after she appealed and said she was ready to take her case to court.

A last-ditch effort by Democrats to revive Capitol Hill talks on vital COVID-19 rescue money collapsed in disappointment at week's end, making it increasingly likely that Washington gridlock will mean more hardship for millions of people who are losing enhanced jobless benefits and further damage for an economy pummeled by the still-raging coronavirus.

Next year's Tribeca Film Festival, which marks the annual event's 20th anniversary, will happen in June as opposed to its normal April and May time slot thanks to the ongoing pandemic.

Russia boasts that it's about to become the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, with mass vaccinations planned as early as October using shots that are yet to complete clinical trials -- and scientists worldwide are sounding the alarm that the headlong rush could backfire.

U.S. hiring slowed in July as the coronavirus outbreak worsened, and the government's jobs report offered signs Friday that the economic damage from the pandemic could last far longer than many observers originally envisioned.

Thousands of bikers poured into the small South Dakota city of Sturgis on Friday as the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally rumbled to life despite fears it could lead to a massive coronavirus outbreak.

At least two dozen inmates and employees have tested positive for COVID-19 in Hamilton County jails, though the full count is unknown.

Richard Werhle admits that opening a new entertainment venue during a pandemic is a challenge - even one with a scorecard of fan appeal as Topgolf.