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LOS ANGELES - R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” has die...

PHILADELPHIA - Rapper Meek Mill’s drug and gun convictions should be thrown out and he should be granted a new trial, prosecutors said in court Monday in an announcement that led his supporters ...

BOSTON - After slogging through just a few miles of icy rain and a near-gale headwind that made her feel like she was running in place, Desiree Linden decided she’d seen enough of the Boston Mar...

OTTAWA - The British Columbia government is denying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim that it has been mum on how Ottawa should reinforce environmental protections - and offering as proof a ...

HALIFAX - Dozens of Syrian refugees literally gave of themselves as a way of giving thanks for being taken in by Canada. Mohammad Harb says 61 refugees donated blood at a Canadian Blood Services clini...

EDMONTON- An Edmonton lawyer has been suspended by his firm after 16-year-old girl was struck and killed at a crosswalk on Sunday night. Shane Stevenson, 47, is charged impaired driving causing death,...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers bounced back in March and bought more cars, furniture and appliances after three months of declining retail sales. The Commerce Department said retail sales rose 0.6 per ce...

PHILADELPHIA - About two dozen chanting protesters took over a Philadelphia Starbucks on Monday, days after two black men were arrested there when store employees called 911 to say they were trespassi...

BEIJING - The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao paid no more than three dollars for the trip that would end up costing him his freedom. For years, he and fellow Chinese Christian teachers would cross the river o...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Inmates armed with homemade knives fought each other for about seven hours over territory and money, leaving seven of them dead in the worst U.S. prison riot in a quarter-century, off...