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Corruption claims, mailbox send Hawaii power couple to trial
HONOLULU - He was Honolulu's Rolex-wearing police chief, an avid surfer who chatted with beat cops in Pidgin, Hawaii's creole language. She was his deputy city prosecutor wife, who drove a Maserati an...
Apr 29, 2019
Biden heads to Pennsylvania to pitch rebuilding middle class
HARRISBURG, Pa. - By picking Pennsylvania for his first campaign speech of the presidential race, Joe Biden is signalling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election's toughest battleground. Plantin...
Apr 29, 2019
Links to Easter bombings put eastern Sri Lanka on edge
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka - Suicide bombings at a militants' safe house have shaken the simple homes of this east Sri Lankan town as well as the rest of this idyllic coast, as the investigation into the Isl...
Apr 29, 2019
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's misleading rhetoric on immigrants
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is spreading misleading rhetoric about illegal immigration. At a Wisconsin rally, he suggested he's launched his plan to transport immigrants in the U.S. illegally ...
Apr 29, 2019
Simpsons take shot at Ottawa Senators in Canadian-themed episode
The Ottawa Senators were unable to avoid being the punchline of a joke on Sunday's Canadian-themed episode of The Simpsons. The episode, titled D'Oh Canada, featured a scene w...
Apr 29, 2019
FCC supports Olds College with $200,000 donation
CALGARY- Farm Credit Canada ("FCC") has made a $200,000 commitment to Olds College and its focus on cultivating informed decisions through the advancement of ag technology learning and applied researc...
Apr 29, 2019 Patrick Machacek, VP, Development & Strategy, Olds College; Fred Wall, VP, Marketing, Farm Credit Union; Stuart Cullum, President, OldsCollege; Martina Holtkamp, Student, Olds College; and Mark Fournier, Instructor, Agribusiness, Olds College
Scheer to demand Canada pull funds from Chinese multilateral development bank
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to respond to China's ban on Canadian canola shipments by taking a number of steps, including pulling hundre...
Apr 29, 2019
160,000 at risk in Mozambique after 2nd cyclone in 6 weeks
PEMBA, Mozambique - A second disaster unfolded on Sunday in northern Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth as raging flood waters killed one person and began to cut off the region's main city from...
Apr 29, 2019
RCMP reminds Albertans to secure their yards
EDMONTON- Cropping season is about to begin in Alberta which means farmers will be spending long hours out in their fields. For many, this may mean filling up their slip tanks, dusting off equipment a...
Apr 29, 2019
In the news today, April 29
Four stories in the news for Monday, April 29 --- NO RESPITE FROM FLOODING IN QUE., ONT., N.B. Thousands of people across Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick are facing several more days of f...
Apr 29, 2019