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EL PASO, Texas - El Paso officials opened a grief centre on Tuesday to help people cope with last weekend's mass shooting at a Walmart, in which 22 people, nearly all with Latino last names, were kill...
Aug 06, 2019
DAYTON, Ohio - Facing pressure to take action after the latest mass shooting in the U.S., Ohio's Republican governor urged the GOP-led Legislature on Tuesday to pass laws requiring background checks f...
Aug 06, 2019
NEW YORK - Cyntoia Brown, whose imprisonment for murder when she was 16 inspired a public campaign for her freedom, has a book out this fall. Brown's "Free Cyntoia" will be published Oct. 15, Atria Bo...
Aug 06, 2019
Toronto Argonauts quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Ottawa Redblacks returner DeVonte Dedmon and Saskatchewan Roughriders QB Cody Fajardo are the CFL's top performers of the week for Week 8. Bethel-...
Aug 06, 2019
TORONTO - Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has made an early exit at the Rogers Cup. The 39-year-old American lost 6-4, 6-2 to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro in the first match on cent...
Aug 06, 2019
VIENNA - Canada's beach volleyball champions Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan have clinched gold and won US$40,000 at the A1 Major Vienna in Austria. Volleyball Canada says the 2019 world c...
Aug 06, 2019
Summers in Alberta are a great time to be out of the house and on the road; however, with more vehicles on the road and behaviors that arise due to the heat can lead to an increased risk of vehicle pr...
Aug 06, 2019
A Sylvan Lake man accused of killing his father made a brief court appearance on Friday. Patrick William Freeman appeared in Rimbey provincial court via CCTV from the Red Deer Remand Centre where he r...
Aug 06, 2019
HALIFAX - For the second year in a row, a central Nova Scotia golf course is home to an unusual hazard after a resident snapping turtle laid eggs in a bunker. Debert Golf Course manager...
Aug 06, 2019
A lack of co-operation from Mother Nature means the Red Deer Riggers will have to wait a bit longer to start playoffs. The Riggers were to take on the Sherwood Park Athletics in game one of their best...
Aug 06, 2019