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4 people, including boy, fatally shot at apartment building
NEW YORK - Four people, including a young boy, were shot and killed late Monday at an apartment building, police said. Detectives were investigating whether the deaths might have been a murder-suicide...
Jul 31, 2018
Powerful bomb in van kills at least 11 in south Philippines
LAMITAN, Philippines - A bomb-laden van driven by a suspected militant went off in a powerful blast Tuesday that killed 11 people, including a soldier, five militiamen and the driver, in a brazen atta...
Jul 31, 2018
The Walk or Run to Quit program returns to Red Deer August 9
RED DEER- Last year at the end of the 10-week program, 90% of participants reduced their smoking as a result. By utilizing learn to walk or run 5km clinics with smoking cessation expertise of the Cana...
Jul 31, 2018
Deadly month: Japan's weather-related deaths top 300 in July
TOKYO - More than 300 people died in July from weather-related disasters in one of Japan’s deadliest months in recent years. First came record rainfall. Disaster authorities say at least 220 peo...
Jul 31, 2018
Official says agency warned family separation bad for kids
WASHINGTON - A Department of Health and Human Services official told senators Tuesday that his agency had warned the Trump administration that separating families would be dangerous for children. But ...
Jul 31, 2018
Clash of GOP titans as Trump v Kochs feud escalates
NEW YORK - The war of words intensified between two titans in Republican politics on Tuesday as President Donald Trump trashed the conservative billionaire Koch brothers as a “total joke in real...
Jul 31, 2018
Lawmakers struggling to develop a response to Trump-Putin
WASHINGTON - Congress is producing an unusual outpouring of bills, resolutions and new sanctions proposals to push back at President Donald Trump’s approach to Vladimir Putin, shore up relations...
Jul 31, 2018
Penn State frat member gets house arrest in hazing death
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - A Penn State University fraternity member who plied a pledge with vodka the night he was fatally injured in a series of falls avoided jail time on Tuesday when a judge sentenced him ...
Jul 31, 2018
Boycott looms for landmark named after slave owner
Boston’s Faneuil Hall has served as a home for civic rhetoric from the time colonists congregated to talk about freedom from the British. But the site known as the Cradle of Liberty is named aft...
Jul 31, 2018
Scientists: 1st sighting of dolphin hybrid is no 'wholphin'
HONOLULU - Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don’t call it a “wholphin,” the...
Jul 31, 2018