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Missing and murdered inquiry emboldens those to move forward: chairwoman
RICHMOND, B.C. - Some of those who have told their harrowing stories at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls have since redoubled that courage by taking their comp...
Apr 6, 2018
14 opioid overdose deaths in Red Deer through first quarter of 2018
As our city sees more deaths from opioid overdoses, Red Deer’s Turning Point is receiving funding for a new awareness campaign. Executive Director Stacey Carmichael says Turning Point is aware o...
Apr 6, 2018
Mobile emergency alerts won't spam your phone
You won’t have to worry about being spammed now that emergency alerts will be sent directly to your mobile phone. Starting today, the National Public Alerting System (Alert Ready) is including w...
Apr 6, 2018
Sessions orders 'zero tolerance' policy for border crossers
SAN DIEGO - Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday ordered a “zero tolerance” policy aimed at people entering the United States illegally for the first time on the Mexican border. Sessio...
Apr 6, 2018
Four charged in Wetaskiwin stolen property seizure
A tip that a stolen laptop was in the process of being sold led to four people being arrested last month in Wetaskiwin. It happened on March 28 when Westaskiwin RCMP were informed Beaumont Mounties we...
Apr 6, 2018
Hopper Penn, girlfriend released from Nebraska jail
LINCOLN, Neb. - Actor Hopper Penn and his girlfriend have been released from jail after they were arrested on drug charges in Nebraska. A jail dispatcher says the 24-year-old Penn and actress Uma Von ...
Apr 6, 2018
Bill Cosby's lawyers want juror ousted over 'guilty' comment
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A juror in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial is under scrutiny for allegedly saying he thinks the comedian is guilty. Cosby’s lawyers asked Friday that the juror be rem...
Apr 6, 2018
Daniel Akaka, first Native Hawaiian in Congress, dies at 93
HONOLULU - Former Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress who served for more than three decades, died Friday. He was 93. Akaka died in Honolulu after being hospitali...
Apr 6, 2018
Nova Scotia's NDP wants immediate moratorium on police street checks
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s opposition New Democrats have proposed legislation that would impose an immediate moratorium on random police street checks. The bill, introduced Friday by Halifax-Needha...
Apr 6, 2018
U.K. man donates amputated, frost-bitten toes to famed 'Sourtoe cocktail'
A U.K. man who lost three toes to frostbite in a Yukon race says he can’t think of a better place for the digits to go than into people’s drinks. Nick Griffiths plans to donate his amputat...
Apr 6, 2018