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HALIFAX - After decades of being overlooked, human rights trailblazer Viola Desmond is receiving yet another posthumous honour. Desmond, who was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto la...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - An Alabama man who shot a rattlesnake got a surprise when the headless reptile tried to bite him long after he thought it should be dead. Billy Forbus tells WSFA-TV he saw the snake...

WASHINGTON - Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting his administration’s policy of separating ch...

WASHINGTON - AP Sources: Homeland Security secretary drafting order to end family separation at border; unclear if Trump will sign it. More coming. The Associated Press

TORONTO - A recent four-day break allowed Toronto FC defender Nick Hagglund to combine two of his favourite pastimes - hanging out with three-month-old daughter Eloise and watching soccer. “I wa...

WINNIPEG - A former educational assistant who gave a student money, food and drugs as their relationship intensified has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years behind bars for sexual exploitation. Sheryl Dyck,...

Rocky Mountain House town council is taking the next step towards renaming a street after one of the area's most revered war veterans. They are proposing to change the name of 49 Street to honour R.L ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - In public, West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry gave speeches about honesty and integrity in government. In private, federal prosecutors say, he was raking in money by...

Toronto FC has rewarded goalkeeper Alex Bono with a new contract. The 24-year-old from Baldwinsville, N.Y., established himself as the club’s first-choice ‘keeper in 2017 and helped the te...

HALIFAX - A Halifax-based military policeman told investigators that he had consensual sex with a female officer while on a naval exercise overseas and was “shocked” when he found out he w...