Category Archives: Canadian Press
Snowbound California roads still getting a major plow job
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - There may be no more potent reminder of California’s humongous snowfall than the plows still clearing roads that snake across the state’s highest mountains...
Jun 15, 2017
Jury for officer who shot Castile ends Day 4 without verdict
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota jury ended its fourth day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict in the manslaughter trial of a police officer who killed a black motorist. Officer Jeronimo Yanez sh...
Jun 15, 2017
Cubans now face same deportation risk as other immigrants
MIAMI - Tens of thousands of Cubans living in the U.S. are adapting to a harsh new reality: After enjoying decades of favoured status dating back to the Cold War, many of them now face the same deport...
Jun 15, 2017
Analysis: Washington embraces unity - for a moment
WASHINGTON - The president called on Americans to set aside their differences. One of his fiercest critics prayed for him and the safety of his family. For one afternoon, Washington appeared to be kno...
Jun 15, 2017
Congressman's shooting transports victims of Giffords attack
PHOENIX - When Ron Barber heard that a gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers practicing for a baseball game, he was taken back to when he was lying on a gurney, yelling his wife’s name and ...
Jun 15, 2017
AP-NORC poll: Just 1 in 5 support Trump's move to fire Comey
WASHINGTON - A clear majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump has tried to interfere with the investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign col...
Jun 15, 2017
Trudeau commits $1.28 billion toward major Montreal transit project
MONTREAL - Ottawa is committing $1.28 billion toward a major Montreal rail project that will connect the city to its suburbs and to its international airport, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursd...
Jun 15, 2017
Ex-VA exec 'astounded' by cost of hospital
DENVER - A former Veterans Affairs Department executive who was harshly criticized by Congress for massive cost overruns at a new Colorado VA medical centre said he was never told the price had balloo...
Jun 15, 2017
Pawn shop workers help nab polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs
PIERRE, S.D. - Polygamous leader Lyle Jeffs’ one-year run from justice was ended by pliers, sharp-eyed pawn shop workers and an astute off-duty detective in a small town in South Dakota. The eve...
Jun 15, 2017
Man found not criminally responsible for killing cop now living in community
TORONTO - The widow of a Toronto police officer killed in a rampage six years ago is outraged the man deemed not criminally responsible for her husband’s death has been living in the community s...
Jun 15, 2017