Category Archives: Canadian Press

CLEVELAND - U.S. Coast Guard stations that watch over the Great Lakes say they’re seeing a huge jump in fake distress calls. The Coast Guard says more than 160 hoax calls have been made across t...

A commercial fisherman’s story about his wife disappearing into the depths of Lake Erie on a boating trip isn’t adding up, and Pennsylvania authorities believe they know why. They say he&#...

PAMPLONA, Spain - Around 400 people have protested bullfighting in Pamplona, a week before the city hosts its famed festival featuring dangerous bull runs. Holding signs that read in English “Bu...

LONDON - The president of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has downplayed the possibility that a deal on sharing power in Northern Ireland will be struck next week. The comments from Gerry Adams ...

MOSUL, Iraq - The day after Iraq’s prime minister declared an end to the Islamic State group’s caliphate, U.S. Army Col. Pat Work and a small team of about a dozen soldiers drove through w...

NEW YORK - The Latest on the shooting at Bronx Lebanon Hospital (all times local): 11:15 p.m. An official at the New York hospital where a former doctor opened fire, killing one person and injuring si...

Starting Saturday, concealed guns are allowed at college campuses in Georgia and Kansas, more public buildings and bus stations in Tennessee, and at the Iowa state capitol as new laws took effect cont...

MONTREAL - Karl Alzner says joining the Montreal Canadiens gives him a better chance to win a Stanley Cup than he had with the Capitals in Washington. He was thrilled to sign a US$23.125-million, five...

NHL general managers usually make their own fireworks on Canada Day with wild long-term contracts. But not this time. In fact, only three teams went longer than three years with an unrestricted free a...

CAIRO - R.J. Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., had 20 points and 11 rebounds to power Canada to a 91-42 rout of Mali to open the FIBA U19 World Cup on Saturday. Lindell Wigginton of Dartmouth, N.S., had s...