Grants Mayor Martin Hicks speaks to a news media outlet on the phone outside Loffler's Gun Etc in Grants, N.M., Monday, April 27, 2020. Hicks opened the city's businesses back up with an executive order, defying the Governor's orders. (Luis Sánchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)
April 28, 2020
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April 28, 2020 2:48 p.m.
In rural U.S., fears of virus seem far away as stores reopen
Parts of the U.S. are starting to lift closures, and some of the quickest to reopen have been rural states like Montana, Vermont and Alaska