Author Archives: rdnews@socastdigital.com
Man passed out in stolen vehicle was possessing fentanyl: Ponoka RCMP
PONOKA- A 43-year-old man faces charges after he was found passed out in a stolen vehicle near Ponoka over the weekend. On July 29, RCMP responded to a complaint at a rural residence that an unknown m...
Jul 31, 2018
The Death Mask Of Jeremy Bentham
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! What's A Death Mask? Before photography, paintings were one of the few ways to preserve what people looked like, but commissioned portraits took a lot of t...
Jul 31, 2018
Jermaine Dupri announces So So Def 25th anniversary tour
ATLANTA - Rap mogul Jermaine Dupri will celebrate his groundbreaking record label So So Def with a multi-city anniversary concert tour. Dupri told The Associated Press on Monday that The So So Def 25t...
Jul 31, 2018
Search suspended for entangled right whale in Bay of Fundy because of fog
GRAND MANAN, N.B. - An entangled North Atlantic right whale spotted in the Bay of Fundy is proving elusive for rescue crews trying to find it. Heavy fog forced searchers to suspend their hunt Tuesday,...
Jul 31, 2018
Death on N.B. First Nation not considered a criminal matter: Mounties
ELSIPOGTOG FIRST NATION, N.B. - Police say they don’t believe criminality was involved in the death of a 22-year-old woman on a New Brunswick First Nation last weekend. Police found the woman...
Jul 31, 2018
Trial for Montreal man accused in U.S. airport stabbing put off until November
FLINT, Mich. - The trial of a Montreal man facing charges stemming from an airport stabbing attack in Michigan in June 2017 has been put off until November. Tunisian native Amor Ftouhi was in court Mo...
Jul 31, 2018
Rampage win division title over Calgary
The Red Deer Rampage are headed to Calgary to battle for a league championship. The Rampage defeated the Calgary Chill two games to one last weekend to claim the Central Division title in the Rocky Mo...
Jul 31, 2018
Egyptian poet gets 3 years for insulting security forces
CAIRO - A rights lawyer says an Egyptian military court has sentenced a poet to three years in prison for insulting the country’s security forces. The lawyer, Mokhtar Mounir, said Tuesday that G...
Jul 31, 2018
Ontario family recalled for philanthropy, business success after crash deaths
Joe Robertson helped create a dental supply firm and sold it for millions before he turned 40, and then with his wife Anita became a major philanthropist in southern Ontario. The couple, both 58, and ...
Jul 31, 2018
Phoenix 'disaster' due to government culture of avoiding responsibility: Senate
OTTAWA - The pay “fiasco” affecting federal government employees was largely the result of a bureaucratic culture of avoiding responsibility that will require closer political oversight be...
Jul 31, 2018