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Stocks dropped on Thursday, as tensions escalated in Ukraine over Russia’s decision to send forces into that nation’s eastern regions and as the U.S. and its western allies move to retaliate with sanctions.  The S&P 500 fell 44 points, or 1%, to 4,304.83, pushing the benchmark index into correction territory, …

Joseph Yoakum’s drawings in ballpoint pen and colored pencil or pastels are intricate and imaginative. And though they bear handwritten titles of places (from “The Baltic Sea Near Stockholm,” to “Leverest” – thought to mean Mount Everest in the Himalayas), there is little resemblance to those locations. “Some of these …

A prison intake photo of Kim Potter that showed her smiling widely after she was convicted of manslaughter in Daunte Wright’s death flared up at her sentencing Friday, with Wright’s mother saying it showed Potter wasn’t genuinely sorry for his death. Potter’s attorney said no disrespect was intended and Potter was …