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Max Armstrong talks about J.C. Penney stores, planting progress, crops under water, an attack blamed on coronavirus and old high school mascots.
About one-fourth of J.C.Penney stores will close.
Spring planting of corn and soybeans is ahead of average. Spring wheat is well behind average.
Some emerged crops are now under water.
A Nashville man who attacked a man and woman is blaming it on coronavirus.
An Iowa newspaper is naming favorite old high school mascots.