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New TV ad shows Marines looking for a few good women
WASHINGTON - A Marine in full combat gear moves through dark, frigid water, gripping an M-16 rifle, before plunging under barbed wire and through a submerged drainage pipe. It is only when the fighter...
May 12, 2017
Malaysia firefighters rescue turtle trapped in power station
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian firefighters have rescued a 60-kilogram (132 pounds) turtle found firmly stuck to a flood gate at a power station near the Malacca Strait. District Fire Chief Razif ...
May 12, 2017
Turkey detains ex-stock exchange workers over links to coup
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained 62 former employees of the Istanbul stock exchange over their alleged links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed for las...
May 12, 2017
Iraqi's Shiite militias launch anti-IS push west of Mosul
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi official says the country’s Shiite-led militia force has launched an operation to retake a small village held by the Islamic State group west of the embattled city of Mosul Ab...
May 12, 2017
Five stories in the news today, May 12
Five stories in the news for Friday, May 12 --- B.C. REGION PREPARES FOR RECORD FLOODING British Columbia’s Okanagan region could be in store for record flooding. Parts of the area that were flo...
May 12, 2017
Academic urges Quebec to look to Europe as model to address flood management
MONTREAL - A Quebec academic says the province lags behind other jurisdictions when it comes to proactive flood management, but can easily catch up by adopting the model used in Europe. Pascale Biron,...
May 12, 2017
Grasshoppers, cookie dough among the new hits on MLB menus
The idea of serving edible grasshoppers at a baseball game isn’t as crazy as it sounds. The Seattle Mariners brought that curious offering to their ballpark this season, and although it might ha...
May 12, 2017
Helicopter crew warns paddle-boarders about nearby sharks
DANA POINT, Calif. - A sheriff’s helicopter crew warned a group of paddle-boarders to get out of the ocean after spotting more than a dozen great white sharks along the Southern California coast...
May 12, 2017
City proclaims Lyme Disease Awareness Month in Red Deer
May is now officially Lyme Disease Awareness Month in Red Deer. A proclamation ceremony held at Red Deer City Council Chambers on Thursday marked the first time the City of Red Deer has formally recog...
May 11, 2017
US Treasury chief to brief key allies on Trump policies
BARI, Italy - Top finance officials from seven advanced economies have gathered to hear more about U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic policies on taxation and trade as well as to look for wa...
May 11, 2017