Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - The Ontario government is discriminating against LGBTQ students by repealing a modernized sex-education curriculum that gave teachers and children the tools needed for an inclusive classroom...

TORONTO - Emily Batty has climbed the World Cup top-five podium 14 times in her career, including three times in the last few weeks. But she’s never stood on the top step. The 30-year-old from B...

NASHVILLE - Tennessee carried out the execution Thursday of a man condemned for the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl, marking the first time the state has applied the death penalty in nearly ...

TOLEDO, Ohio - An inmate who confessed to killing three people with his older brother during a string of murders in the 1980s will be released from prison under a decades-old plea deal, a judge ruled ...

TANJUNG, Indonesia - The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death toll from the most powerful of the quakes topped 300...

TAOS, N.M. - A severely disabled Georgia boy who authorities say was kidnapped by his father and marked for an exorcism was found buried at the ramshackle compound in the New Mexico desert that has be...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A dull haze and the faint smell of smoke from distant blazes have blanketed many California cities for two weeks, forcing summer campers to stay inside, obscuring normally bright ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. - In 1906, when aging, white Confederate veterans of the Civil War and black ex-slaves still lived on the old plantations of the Deep South, two very different celebrations were afoot i...

HALIFAX - A lawyer for a Halifax man who strangled an off-duty police officer argues that his mental illness - brought on by the murder - should be a mitigating factor in deciding his parole eligibili...

MONROE, N.C. - North Carolina authorities arrested a juvenile Wednesday they say robbed a 9-year-old lemonade vendor of $17 at gunpoint, a stickup that prompted an outpouring of sympathy and donations...