Category Archives: Canadian Press

TOKYO - Toshiba Corp. has chosen a U.S.-Japan consortium as the preferred bidder in the sale of its lucrative memory chip business. The troubled Japanese electronics giant has had deep recent losses a...

ARLINGTON, Texas - Nick Martinez wasn’t distracted by a quick trip to the bullpen after a couple of rough starts as part of the churning bottom of the Texas rotation. The right-hander knows the ...

NEW ORLEANS - Tropical Storm Cindy formed Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico, hovering south of Louisiana as it churned tides and spun bands of heavy, potentially flooding rain onto the central and eastern...

KIDAPAWAN, Philippines - Muslim rebels raided a southern Philippine village and positioned themselves in a school as they engaged troops in a gunbattle early Wednesday that officials said may be an at...

NEW YORK - Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world. A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found evide...

WACO, Texas - A Texas woman who police said packed a loaded pistol in her vagina has been sentenced to probation after she pleaded guilty to drug possession. Ashley Cecilia Castaneda has been sentence...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The trial of a man accused of killing a young father, his two-year-old daughter and a senior in southern Alberta is hearing testimony about the firepit where the girl’s remai...

Islamic leaders are questioning Virginia detectives’ insistence that the beating death of a teenage Muslim girl appears to have been a case of road rage, saying the attack looks all too much lik...

ATLANTA - Dwight Howard’s Atlanta homecoming was short-lived. The Hawks sent Howard and the No. 31 overall pick in Thursday’s NBA draft to Charlotte for centre Miles Plumlee, shooting guar...

Tokyo’s huge, and hugely popular, Tsukiji fish market won’t be destroyed but will be closed for up to five years while it is modernized and turned into a “food theme park,” the...