Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - The New York tabloid Daily News cut half of its newsroom staff Monday including Jim Rich, the paper’s editor in chief. The paper was sold to Tronc Inc. last year for $1, with the owne...

TORONTO - When Justyn Knight ran an impressive 5,000-metre time as a high schooler at St. Michael’s College, his coach Frank Bergin told him to clear out a drawer to store all the college recrui...

KEY WEST, Fla. - After eight previous tries, the husband of celebrity chef Paula Deen has won the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest held in the city where writer Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote during the...

WALTHAM, Mass. - A former star of “The Dukes of Hazzard” television show has pleaded guilty to inappropriately touching two women in the cast of a musical in Massachusetts in which he star...

OTTAWA - Political leaders at all levels offered comforting words and pledged to work together following Sunday’s deadly shooting in Toronto, even as a new Statistics Canada report indicated gun...

Toronto’s vibrant Greektown neighbourhood is best known by locals for its for bustling patios, a massive summer food festival and a plethora of dogs and strollers clogging sidewalks. It features...

TORONTO - Sunday’s deadly rampage in Toronto marks the latest in a growing list of fatal shootings in the city. Gun deaths had accounted for 23 of Toronto’s 52 homicides this year - compar...

ATLANTA - A Georgia lawmaker is the latest public figure caught with his pants down on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen’s new cable TV series, this time literally, as the state legislator exposes h...

LOCKPORT, N.Y. - The surveillance system that has kept watch on students entering Lockport schools for over a decade is getting a novel upgrade. Facial recognition technology soon will check each face...

BOCA DEL RXCDO, Mexico - It’s almost as if Letty Stegall is there, back home in the United States, beside her daughter to prod her awake for school. When her husband goes to the grocery store, s...