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ASIRT to investigate use of force during arrest
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) has been called in to investigate the circumstances surrounding the actions of police during a use of force arrest at Maskwacis last week.On March 26...
Apr 01, 2022
Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
NEW YORK (AP) - A U.S. judge refused to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction Friday, despite a juror's failure to disclose before the trial began that he'd been a victim of childho...
Apr 01, 2022
Rebels Ben King named WHL Player of the Month for March
The Western Hockey League announced Friday that Red Deer Rebels forward Ben King has been named the WHL Player of the Month for the month of March. The 19-year-old led all WHL skaters with 23 points (...
Apr 01, 2022
Maple Leafs No. 1 goaltender Jack Campbell set to return from rib injury
TORONTO - Jack Campbell has been through plenty of tough times. Selected by the Dallas Stars with the 11th pick in the 2010 draft, the highly-touted goaltender waited until the 2018-19 season to final...
Apr 01, 2022
Ponoka council approves 2022 Capital and Operating budgets
Ponoka town council has approved the 2022 Town of Ponoka Capital and Operating budgets."During budget deliberations, council and administration worked to find efficiencies and arrive at a fiscally res...
Apr 01, 2022
Longtime Canadian Press sportswriter Neil Stevens saw it all and told it well
Former Canadian Press sportswriter Neil Stevens, who earned Hall of Fame recognition in both lacrosse and hockey while criss-crossing the globe in more than three decades with the national news agency...
Apr 01, 2022
Hope Solo arrested on DWI, child abuse charges
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Former U.S. women's national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old t...
Apr 01, 2022
U.S. authorities issue final order allowing P.E.I. table potatoes back over border
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lifted the final barrier that was keeping table potatoes from Prince Edward Island out of the United States. A final federal order posted today clea...
Apr 01, 2022
Athletes can battle effects of maltreatment in sport well into adulthood
Brittany Rogers is an adult now and three years removed from her athletic career, yet the cutting words of her childhood gymnastics coaches still play like a broken record in her mind. You're fat. You...
Apr 01, 2022
Vice Mark Nichols ready for return to Team Gushue lineup at world curling playdowns
Forced into isolation due to COVID-19, Team Gushue vice Mark Nichols could only watch on television as his teammates won the Canadian men's curling championship last month. Now Nichols is set to retur...
Apr 01, 2022