Category Archives: Canadian Press

BATON ROUGE, La. - A 101-year-old runner from Louisiana who just took up the sport a year ago has set a woman’s world record in the 100-yard dash for her age group, a newspaper reports. With a t...

PHILLIPS, Wis. - In a story July 3 about a plane crash in northern Wisconsin that killed six people, The Associated Press erroneously reported an expert’s listing of factors that can contribute ...

OTTAWA - A senior representative for Iraq’s Kurdish region is defending her people’s plan to hold a referendum on independence, saying they simply want to exercise the same right to self-d...

ROME - Paolo Villaggio, a comic actor whose invented workplace characters interpreted Italians’ foibles, died Monday in Rome at 84. His children said Villaggio had been debilitated by complicati...

OTTAWA - Canada’s Far North is getting the short end of the stick on a major federal investment aimed at reducing gender-based violence, advocates say, because the money is being meted out based...

DALLAS - Right winger Alexander Radulov got the richest contract given to an unrestricted free agent this off-season when he signed a $31.25 million, five-year deal with the Dallas Stars. Only after a...

LONDON - A British teenager was sentenced Monday to at least 16 1/2 years in prison for plotting a bombing whose potential targets included an Elton John concert on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 1...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens agreed to terms on a one-year contract with free agent forward Ales Hemsky on Monday. The 33-year-old Czech missed most of the 2016-17 campaign after undergoing hip s...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays acquired catcher Miguel Montero and cash considerations from the Chicago Cubs on Monday in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations. Montero has a...

LONDON - Venus Williams wiped tears from her eyes during her Wimbledon news conference Monday. She shook her head, fiddled with her hair and sat, silently. The wave of emotion came as Williams attempt...