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Lacombe County working on cannabis legislation
Lacombe County is working on legislation governing the production and consumption of cannabis. A resolution was put forth at the Aug. 9 council meeting to amend the County's Land Use Bylaw to designat...
Aug 20, 2018
Troopers cite 10 sports car drivers for going too slow
HAMDEN, Conn. - State police in Connecticut usually pull over cars for driving too fast. But on Sunday, troopers stopped and ticketed 10 cars for going too slow. Police received several calls from ang...
Aug 20, 2018
Chamber recruiting volunteer committee members
The Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce is recruiting volunteers to fill new committees created in a bid to bolster their reach, expertise, and relevance in an evolving business climate. In a re...
Aug 20, 2018
Police: Man yells 'Jesus is coming' before stabbing toddler
LEWISVILLE, Texas - Police in Texas say a man fatally stabbed his 16-month-old son and was shot in the leg by a neighbour who tried to stop the attack. The stabbing was reported Sunday afternoon in th...
Aug 20, 2018
Spanish police shoot man dead in suspected terror attack
BARCELONA, Spain - A man pleaded to be let into a locked police station in Barcelona before dawn Monday, then lunged with a knife at officers inside. Police shot him dead and the attack is being inves...
Aug 20, 2018
No verdict in Manafort trial after 3 days of deliberations
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The jury in the financial fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has finished its third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Jurors deliberated until...
Aug 20, 2018
Cardinal McCarrick scandal inflames debate over gay priests
NEW YORK - Allegations that disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick engaged in sex with adult seminarians have inflamed a long-running debate about the presence of gay men in the Roman Catholic pries...
Aug 20, 2018
Dayton Sutherland wins Battle of the Rockies, Bensmiller claims season title
Kurt Bensmiller won his third career WPCA World Chuckwagon Championship as the as the 2018 Battle of the Rockies Championship wrapped up in Rocky Mountain House on Sunday. Bensmiller finished 94.5 poi...
Aug 20, 2018
In the city that claims him, Ben Carson falls from grace
BALTIMORE - The portrait used to hang in the hallway, welcoming children and parents to the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore: a smiling Dr. Ben Carson in surgical scrubs, rubbing together the ca...
Aug 20, 2018
Giuliani clarifies his 'truth isn't truth' puzzler
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s personal attorney says he wasn’t trying to make an existential point about the meaning of veracity when he declared “truth isn’t truth....
Aug 20, 2018