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Prosecutors charge 3 with threatening women in R. Kelly case
NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against three men accused of threatening and intimidating women who have accused R&B singer R. Kelly of abuse, including one man suspecte...
Aug 12, 2020

Wild Rose offering at-home learning option for some students this fall
Wild Rose School Division will offer students going back to school in September a chance to continue At-Home Learning, but only for those with an underlying medical condition or other factors that cou...
Aug 12, 2020

Mother calls for strict sentence in son's 2016 death in Halifax jail cell
HALIFAX - The mother of a man who died in a Halifax police jail cell in June 2016 has asked a judge to impose the "strictest penalty possible" on two special police constables found guilty of cri...
Aug 12, 2020

Innu Nation files human rights complaint over Ottawa's child protection funding
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Innu Nation has filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging the federal government spends more money removing children from their homes as opposed ...
Aug 12, 2020

Carleton ends student placements with police over failures to address racism
OTTAWA - Carleton University's criminology school says it will no longer place students to work with police forces and prisons as a show of solidarity with the movement to address ...
Aug 12, 2020

1 of 2 girls convicted in Slender Man stabbing loses appeal
MADISON, Wis. - One of two Wisconsin girls who repeatedly stabbed a classmate because she believed a fictional horror character named Slender Man would attack her family if she didn't kill the girl lo...
Aug 12, 2020

UPDATE: Arrest made in fatal hit and run crash north of Red Deer
Red Deer RCMP say tips from the public have led to an arrest in relation to a hit and run collision north of the city that claimed the life of a male pedestrian. The collision happened late Sunday aft...
Aug 12, 2020

Media mogul Sumner Redstone dies at 97
Sumner Redstone, who joined his family's drive-in movie chain in the 1950s and used it to build a vast media empire that included CBS and Viacom, has died. He was 97. Under his watch, Viacom became on...
Aug 12, 2020

UK records deepest recession among top economies
LONDON - Britain has suffered the deepest recession among the world's top economies this year, shrinking by a fifth in the second quarter alone when much of the economy was mothballed as part of effor...
Aug 12, 2020

US consumer prices rose 0.6% in July, matching June uptick
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices jumped 0.6% in July as gasoline prices continued to rise. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that the increase last month in its consumer price index matched a 0...
Aug 12, 2020