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Buxton homers three times to power Twins to 7-2 win over Blue Jays
TORONTO - Byron Buxton had just about everything go his way on Sunday. The Twins centre-fielder finished 4 for 5 with a career-high three home runs and five runs batted in to lead Minnesota in a 7-2 v...
Aug 27, 2017
Local leaders say 1,000 dead from Sierra Leone mudslides
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - More than 1,000 people have died from the mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone’s capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and a minister said Sunday during servi...
Aug 27, 2017
Appendicitis forces American Michelle Wie out of CP Women's Open in Ottawa
OTTAWA - American star Michelle Wie was forced to withdraw from the CP Women’s Open with appendicitis on Sunday. The 27-year-old was scheduled to have her appendix removed at Ottawa Hospital lat...
Aug 27, 2017
Hurricane Harvey the latest threat to flood-prone Houston
HOUSTON - Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast some 175 miles (280 kilometres) from Houston, but the nation’s fourth-largest city has never needed a direct strike from a catastrophic st...
Aug 27, 2017
Canada's Alysha Newman betters her own national pole vault record
BECKHUM, Germany - Alysha Newman of London, Ont., broke her own Canadian record in the pole vault on Sunday. The 23-year-old cleared 4.75 metres, topping her previous mark of 4.71. Newman did a back f...
Aug 27, 2017
North London woes: Arsenal routed at Liverpool as Spurs draw
LIVERPOOL, England - Humiliation for Arsenal at Liverpool. More Wembley frustration for Tottenham. The north London clubs had an afternoon to forget in the Premier League on Sunday before the two-week...
Aug 27, 2017
Two people accused of setting fire that killed 5-month-old in Edmonton
EDMONTON - Charges have been laid against two people in connection with a fire that killed a five-month-old baby in Edmonton. Police allege patio furniture on the porch near the front door of the home...
Aug 27, 2017
Evacuees return home near Kelowna, B.C., as wildfire continues to burn
KELOWNA, B.C. - Hundreds of people forced from their homes by a wildfire burning east of Kelowna, B.C., have been allowed to return, but others remain displaced. The Central Okanagan Regional District...
Aug 27, 2017
NDP candidates face off during French-language debate in Montreal
MONTREAL - The four NDP leadership hopefuls trod carefully Sunday when they were asked to weigh in on Quebec’s ongoing discussion over religion and identity during a French-language debate in Mo...
Aug 27, 2017
From NASA to nunhood: P.E.I. engineer explores faith as scientist and sister
CHARLOTTETOWN - When Libby Osgood looks into the night sky above Charlottetown, she said she sees it through the lens of God’s creation and her own contribution to the engineering of NASA’...
Aug 27, 2017