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Still bad: 71-year-old Ilie Nastase arrested twice in a day
BUCHAREST, Romania - Former tennis player Ilie Nastase was arrested twice in the space of six hours in his native Romania on Friday, first on suspicion of driving a car while drunk and refusing to tak...
May 25, 2018

Nighthawks and Play it Again Sports earn Twilight Baseball League victories
Two games in the Red Deer Men's Twilight Baseball League on Thursday night: Break Away Hotshot Nighthawks 9, Beats and Eats Hideout Gophers 6 Play it Again Sports 9, Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends 5
May 25, 2018

Lindsay Thurber celebrates Grad Class of 2018
Having supportive teachers, classmates and principals who believed in her has helped set Hayley Lalor, this year's valedictorian from Lindsay Thurber High School, up for success. "I have met a lot of ...
May 25, 2018
Turkey: Rapper arrested accused of encouraging drug use
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have arrested a popular rap artist on charges of inciting drug use. Anadolu Agency said 27-year-old Sercan Ipekcigolu, better-kno...
May 25, 2018

Cop killer to be sentenced ahead of appeal claiming 'false' confession
HALIFAX - A Halifax man who murdered an off-duty police officer faces sentencing Monday, even as he fights to have his conviction overturned in part because he says police interview tactics elicited a...
May 25, 2018
49 dead after boat capsizes on Congo River tributary
KINSHASA, Congo - Congolese officials say at least 49 people have died after a boat tipped over on the Momboyo River, a tributary of the Congo River in the country’s northwest. The vice governor...
May 25, 2018

CARTOON 05-25-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 05-25-2018
May 25, 2018
Netherlands, Australia hold Russia liable for downing MH17
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A day after international prosecutors said they had unequivocal evidence of Russian involvement in the downing of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine nearly four years ago,...
May 25, 2018

In the news today, May 25
Five stories in the news for Friday, May 25 --- FIFTEEN INJURED IN MISSISSAUGA, ONT., EXPLOSION Police are searching for two suspects after 15 people were injured by an “improvised explosive dev...
May 25, 2018

Hunt underway for two suspects connected to Mississauga, Ont., blast
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A blast that left 15 people injured at a busy Indian restaurant west of Toronto is not believed to be a hate crime or an act of terrorism, authorities said Friday as they searched ...
May 25, 2018