Category Archives: Canadian Press
Penn West shares plunge after SEC files fraud charges involving three former execs
CALGARY - Shares in Penn West Petroleum dropped sharply Wednesday morning after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had filed fraud-related charges against it and three former fin...
Jun 28, 2017
Canadian men's, women's curling championships to include a wild-card team
OTTAWA - A 16th team has been added to next year’s Canadian men’s and women’s curling championships, and it will have to win its way in via a wild-card game. Curling Canada revamped ...
Jun 28, 2017
Five Eyes stress sharing information to battle 'relentless' terrorist plots
OTTAWA - Security and justice officials from the Five Eyes countries plan to explore “more timely and detailed” information sharing to detect terrorists and extremist fighters. Daesh and i...
Jun 28, 2017
Conditional discharge, community service for Blue Jays can tosser Ken Pagan
TORONTO - A man who threw a beer can onto the field during a dramatic Blue Jays playoff game last fall was given a conditional discharge Wednesday, after his lawyer argued the public humiliation he su...
Jun 28, 2017
Florida Supreme Court hears death penalty-prosecutor dispute
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court scrutinized a prosecutor over her refusal to seek the death penalty in two dozen murder cases, and a justice suggested during arguments Wednesday that Gov...
Jun 28, 2017
Review board wants another look at police shooting decision
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A review board Tuesday found “substantial evidence of error” in a North Carolina police department’s decision that the fatal shooting of a black man by an officer l...
Jun 28, 2017
2 train conductors struck, killed on tracks in Washington
WASHINGTON - Two conductors who got out of their freight train to follow up on an alert that there was a problem with one or more of its wheels were struck and killed by a passenger train near Washing...
Jun 28, 2017
Total solar eclipse 1st in 99 years to sweep width of US
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - This August, the U.S. will experience its first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years. Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of now...
Jun 28, 2017
Correction: Solar Eclipse-Kentucky story
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. - In a story June 28 about preparations for the solar eclipse in a small Kentucky town, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from NASA, the number of peopl...
Jun 28, 2017
Carcass of right whale towed to P.E.I. to determine cause of death
NORWAY, P.E.I. - The Canadian Coast Guard and Fisheries and Oceans Canada have beached a dead right whale on a Prince Edward Island shore in a bid to learn what killed at least six of the endangered m...
Jun 28, 2017