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Correction: Interior-National Monuments story
SALT LAKE CITY - In a story June 13 about the national monuments review, The Associated Press reported erroneously the year the Antiquities Act was passed. It was enacted in 1906, not 1908. A correcte...
Jun 12, 2017
August trial set in ex-CFL player McKnight's death
NEW ORLEANS - The man charged in the shooting death of former CFL and NFL running back Joe McKnight is scheduled to go on trial in August. A judge in the New Orleans suburb of Gretna on Monday set an ...
Jun 12, 2017
B.C. child killer too much of a threat for escorted outings, Crown says
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The crimes of a man who stabbed his daughter to death and smothered his two sons are so brutal he should be barred from escorted outings into the community, a Crown attorney sa...
Jun 12, 2017
School buses collide in Haliburton, Ont., sending 21 students to hospital
HALIBURTON COUNTY, Ont. - More than 20 students from a Toronto middle school were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries on Monday after two school buses collided on their way to a camp i...
Jun 12, 2017
Solo sailor, 73, describes sudden trouble at sea: 'The boat had inverted'
HALIFAX - Alone in the mid-Atlantic, 73-year-old Mervyn Wheatley awoke early Friday to heaving swells threatening to capsize his weathered sailboat, Tamarind. He stumbled from his bunk in the dark, gr...
Jun 12, 2017
Theater refuses to buckle after 'Caesar' Trump criticism
NEW YORK - The Public Theater is refusing to back down after backlash over its production of “Julius Caesar” that portrays a Donald Trump-like dictator in a business suit with a long tie w...
Jun 12, 2017
Strike ends, Toronto Zoo to reopen Thursday after agreement ratified
TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo will reopen Thursday after being closed by a month-long strike. Unionized workers at Canada’s largest zoo ratified a new four-year collective agreement on Sunday. The T...
Jun 12, 2017
Health minister says overdose issue requires treatment without judgment
VANCOUVER - Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says more people are expected to die of illicit opioid overdoses in Canada this year compared with nearly 2,500 fatalities recorded in 2016. “It...
Jun 12, 2017
EIA shows oilsands saw major reserve writedown in 2016 following oil price drop
CALGARY - The U.S. Energy Information Administration has highlighted how last year’s oil price drop brought on a massive writedown of high-cost Canadian oilsands reserves. The EIA said in a brie...
Jun 12, 2017
Starbucks teams with Lady Gaga for 'Cups of Kindness'
SEATTLE - Starbucks has teamed up with Lady Gaga for a set of brightly coloured summer drinks that will raise money for the singer’s foundation. The “Cups of Kindness” campaign begin...
Jun 12, 2017