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Four stabbed on bus in Brampton, Ont.; suspect arrested
BRAMPTON, Ont. - Police say four people were sent to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after being stabbed on a bus east of Toronto. Peel regional police say they have charged a woman with f...
Jul 4, 2018
Traffic delays for signal LED bulb changes
Red Deer drivers can expect minor delays in the northwest end of the city as traffic signal LED bulbs are replaced over the next week. Signal LED bulb changes will take place overnight between 7 p.m. ...
Jul 4, 2018
Playoff decides Innisfail Junior Open
Chase Bodoano birdied the first playoff hole to win Tuesday's Innisfail Junior Open. It was the first victory on the McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour for the 18-year-old from Sherwood Park as he edged B...
Jul 4, 2018
Father says daughter's stay in hospital tub room 'unacceptable'
A local father is not happy after his 19-year-old daughter spent part of her recent stay at Red Deer Regional Hospital in a converted tub room. Mike Kilkus says his daughter was admitted on Sunday, Ju...
Jul 4, 2018
Chairman of China's HNA Group dies in accident in France
BEIJING - The co-chairman of HNA Group, a conglomerate that operates China’s fourth-largest airline and racked up tens of billions of dollars in debt as it went on a global buying spree, died in...
Jul 4, 2018
Trump pressed aides on Venezuela invasion, US official says
BOGOTA - As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unra...
Jul 4, 2018
Journalists struggle to keep online threats from escalating
TAMPA, Fla. - After a Florida radio station’s general manager told hosts they didn’t have to put an obnoxious repeat caller on the air a couple of months ago, the man stood on the sidewalk...
Jul 4, 2018
Government blesses omitting race from admissions, enrolment
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration said the government would no longer encourage schools to use race as a factor in the admissions process, rescinding Obama-era guidance meant to promote diversity ...
Jul 4, 2018
Americans celebrate July 4 with fireworks, parades, salutes
NEW YORK - With backyard barbecues and fireworks, Americans celebrated Independence Day by participating in time-honoured traditions that expressed pride in their country’s 242nd birthday. But t...
Jul 4, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's shaky claim on Iran nuclear accord
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is making an unsubstantiated assertion that the Obama administration granted 2,500 Iranians citizenship as part of a 2015 nuclear deal that sought to limit Tehran&#...
Jul 4, 2018