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Parks Canada issues warning after cougar sightings near Banff
BANFF- Cougars prowling for food around the Banff townsite have triggered a warning from Parks Canada about the big cats. People are being reminded to travel in groups, make noise, carry bear spray an...
Jan 22, 2019
Plane crashes into front yard of rural Ohio home; 2 dead
APPLE CREEK, Ohio - Authorities say two pilots are dead after a plane crashed into the snow-covered front yard of a rural Ohio home shortly after taking off from a private airfield nearby. The State H...
Jan 22, 2019
'Roma,' 'Cold War' among foreign-language Oscar nominees
LONDON - Five movies about individuals and families confronting social and historical tumult are competing in the Academy Awards’ race for best foreign-language film. Mexican director Alfonso Cu...
Jan 22, 2019
Oscar nods honour 'Roma,' 'The Favourite,' 'Black Panther'
NEW YORK - Oscar voters on Tuesday showered Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” with a leading 10 nominations for the 91st Academy Awards,...
Jan 22, 2019
Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala aboard missing plane
PARIS - The search for the missing plane taking Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala to his new team in Wales was called off for the night on Tuesday with authorities not expecting to find any surviv...
Jan 22, 2019
Car hits Polish policeman, rams into presidential palace
WARSAW, Poland - A car driving the wrong way down a street struck a policeman near the Polish president’s headquarters Tuesday before speeding off and ramming into a metal barrier protecting the...
Jan 22, 2019
Oscar music nods: Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Diane Warren
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga is a double nominee at the Academy Awards, where rapper Kendrick Lamar is nominated for the first time while songwriter Diane Warren is also vying for her first win with her 10th ...
Jan 22, 2019
NDP cabinet minister Sandra Jansen not running in 2019
EDMONTON – A Calgary NDP cabinet minister who left the Progressive Conservatives over what she said was personal abuse and an unacceptable shift to the right says she won’t run in the next...
Jan 22, 2019
Province embarks on agricultural waste recycling pilot project
EDMONTON — It isn’t easy keeping farm yards, fields, ditches and pastures free of platstic twine and other plastic castoffs. However, a three-year pilot program to recycle agricultural pla...
Jan 22, 2019
Maryland man gets 10 years for theft of 10 cigarette packs
SALISBURY, Md. - A Maryland man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing 10 packs of cigarettes from a Wicomico County gas station. News outlets report 36-year-old John Edward Lowe was se...
Jan 22, 2019