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EVANSVILLE, Ind. - A southern Indiana farmer who created a corn maze with trails outlining the face of “Star Wars” character Princess Leia says he planted it to honour the late actress Car...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - The International Paralympic Committee has elected Andrew Parsons as president. The Brazilian replaces Philip Craven, who led the IPC for 16 years. Parsons gained eno...

PARIS - Montpellier fans can have their favourite French team’s jersey replaced after the manufacturer in charge of making the club badge made a clumsy spelling mistake. The French league club s...

NEW YORK - The arrest of an Estonian man last week for trespassing at the U.S. Open has renewed questions about “courtsiding,” the surreptitious collection of instant data for gamblers usi...

The members of Radiohead say they are “appalled” that charges stemming from a fatal concert stage collapse in Toronto in 2012 were stayed. On Tuesday, a judge ruled the justice system had ...

DENVER - Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to t...

GALENA PARK, Texas - Cindy Sanchez began to feel ill while barbecuing just before Harvey’s torrents started pelting this city just east of Houston, along a corridor with the nation’s highe...

WASHINGTON - It started out cold as ice, and then turned warm and friendly. Now the tortured relationship between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan has gone cool again, with the Repub...

A resolution has been reached in the case of a Calgary man charged in relation to an incident in Lacombe where one man was killed. On December 9, 2015, then 23-year-old Jesse Vankroonenburgh was invol...

RED DEER- Stats Canada numbers show the Red Deer area unemployment rate continues to fall. The jobless rate dropped from 5.8. per cent in July to 5.6 per cent last month. The unemployment rate in the ...