Category Archives: Canadian Press
Police, fed up with lingering cold weather, 'arrests' winter
DEPEW, N.Y. - An upstate New York police department fed up with lingering cold weather has placed winter under arrest. The Post-Standard reports the Depew Police Department wrote Friday in a humorous ...
Apr 9, 2018
Spring storm wallops Atlantic Canada with heavy snowfall, gusty winds
HALIFAX - A spring storm has closed schools and delayed business openings in parts of Atlantic Canada. Western Newfoundland and Labrador were getting heavy snowfall, along with winds expected to gust ...
Apr 9, 2018
Fox News host: Graphic posted at wrong point of show
NEW YORK - A Fox News host says that a graphic showing the station lagging other cable news networks in trustworthiness was taken down because it was posted at the wrong time. “Media Buzz”...
Apr 9, 2018
Accused killer found Johnston kissing another man, Halifax jury told
HALIFAX - A witness testified Monday that he was becoming intimate with Montreal-born yoga instructor Kristin Johnston when Nicholas Butcher unexpectedly came into the bedroom, hours before he alleged...
Apr 9, 2018
Speaker of New Brunswick legislature to fight 'baseless' harassment allegation
FREDERICTON - The Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature plans to fight allegations of harassment “tooth and nail,” his lawyer said Monday. T.J. Burke says Chris Collins is devastated th...
Apr 9, 2018
Lawyer tells Australian court Geoffrey Rush barely eating
SYDNEY, Australia - Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has become virtually housebound, barely eats and wakes each morning with a “terrible sense of dread” since a Sydney newspaper alleged ...
Apr 9, 2018
Strong quake cracks streets in western Japan, injuring 5
TOKYO - A strong earthquake hit western Japan early Monday, cracking streets, cutting water and power to a number of homes and injuring five people. The Meteorological Agency said the magnitude 6.1 qu...
Apr 9, 2018
NY high school students injured when bus strikes overpass
LAKEVIEW, N.Y. - A charter bus carrying teenagers returning from a spring break trip Sunday night struck a bridge overpass on Long Island, seriously injuring six passengers and mangling the entire len...
Apr 9, 2018
US official says North Korean leader ready to discuss nukes
WASHINGTON - North Korea’s government has communicated with the United States to say that leader Kim Jong Un is ready to discuss his nuclear weapons program with President Donald Trump, official...
Apr 9, 2018
Tensions rachet up as Israel blamed for Syria missile strike
BEIRUT - A suspected poison gas attack in a Syrian rebel-held town and airstrikes on a Syrian air base that Damascus and Moscow blamed on U.S. ally Israel escalated tensions in the already volatile Mi...
Apr 9, 2018