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Tom Wolfe, pioneering 'New Journalist,' dead at 88
NEW YORK - Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wi...
May 15, 2018
Kellogg latest US brand to ditch crisis-wracked Venezuela
MARACAY, Venezuela - Kellogg Co. closed operations in Venezuela and laid off 300 workers Tuesday at a time of widespread hunger in the crisis-wracked South American nation. The Battle Creek, Michigan-...
May 15, 2018
Toronto police end search of accused serial killer Bruce McArthur's apartment
TORONTO - An exhaustive and exhausting four-month search of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur’s apartment has concluded, Toronto police announced Tuesday, saying their probe of the unit where...
May 15, 2018
BBQ in support of Victim Services at Blackfalds RCMP Detachment Wednesday
Red Deer Lacombe Rural Community Crime Watch is hosting a BBQ at the Blackfalds RCMP Detachment to recognize National Police Week (May 14 until May 18). Please join officials in thanking our RCMP, Pea...
May 15, 2018
German court dismisses comic's appeal over Erdogan poem
BERLIN - A German court has dismissed a television comedian’s appeal of a ruling that prohibits him from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan....
May 15, 2018
US intensifies pressure on Iran, sanctioning central banker
WASHINGTON - The United States intensified its financial pressure on Iran on Tuesday, slapping anti-terror sanctions on the head of its central bank and barring anyone around the world from doing busi...
May 15, 2018
Wrestling, basketball in the spotlight as nominees for BLG awards announced
TORONTO - Hec Crighton Trophy winner Ed Ilnicki and two-sport athlete Temitope Ogunjimi are among the eight nominees for the 2018 BLG Awards, given annually to the top male and female U Sports athlete...
May 15, 2018
Ontario police sound alarm over perceived lack of funds for pot legalization
TORONTO - Ontario’s chiefs of police are again sounding alarm bells about the impending legalization of recreational cannabis, saying federal funding for police operations may not go far enough ...
May 15, 2018
Trudeau tells Trump: We can have a NAFTA deal right now, if you want it
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly told President Donald Trump that a NAFTA agreement is imminently within reach as long as some controversial demands are set aside. That high-l...
May 15, 2018
Russian opposition leader Navalny gets 30-day jail sentence
MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was ordered Tuesday to spend 30 days in jail for staging an unsanctioned protest in Moscow and resisting police, charges he dismissed as unlawful. Nav...
May 15, 2018