Category Archives: Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - A library user who returned cash found in a book has drawn the RCMP into a detective whodunit. Cpl. Richard De Jong says the mystery began July 24 when the unnamed book borrower returned a...

CAPE DORSET, Nunavut - Mounties are urging residents of a community in Nunavut to stop helping a wanted man avoid arrest. Police say David Mikkigak of Cape Dorset is a suspect in several crimes, inclu...

BARCELONA, Spain - When crowds in downtown Barcelona fell silent for one minute Friday to honour the victims of the terrorist attack in the city, one thing was conspicuously absent: any reference to C...

WINNIPEG - An investigation has found that a Winnipeg police officer who suffered a life-threatening leg injury when his gun accidentally discharged did not have his hand near the weapon when it went ...

MCMINNVILLE, Ore. - An Oregon family’s golden retriever has been honoured by a sheriff for digging up $85,000 worth of black tar heroin in a family’s backyard. KATU-TV reported (http://bit...

WASHINGTON - Steve Bannon, the blunt-spoken and divisive strategist who rose from Donald Trump’s conservative campaign to a top White House post, was pushed out by the president Friday, capping ...

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked ...

ASHINGTON - Steve Bannon, a forceful but divisive presence in President Donald Trump’s White House, is leaving. Trump accepted Bannon’s resignation on Friday, ending a turbulent seven mont...

NEW YORK - Tech companies’ efforts to banish extremist groups and individuals are continuing as a social network popular with extremists disappeared from Google’s Android app store. Gab ha...

ST. MARYS, Pa. - A woman is accused of burning her 3-year-old son with chemicals, putting him on a leash and keeping him in a dog cage. Police in St. Marys charged Arwen Kuhn last week with a slew of ...