Category Archives: Canadian Press
Dave Dickenson feels his brother is deserving of Riders' head-coaching job
Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson doesn’t see the Calgary-Saskatchewan rivalry getting more intense now that his older brother has the same position with the Roughriders. The Riders unveiled ...
Jan 25, 2019
Crown stays manslaughter charge against former Calgary pastor in son's death
CALGARY - The Alberta Crown has stayed a manslaughter charge against a former pastor who had been accused in his infant son’s death. Cyrus Nel was three months old when he died in a Calgary hosp...
Jan 25, 2019
Vancouver Whitecaps sign Brazilian winger Lucas Venuto
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have added Brazilian winger Lucas Venuto to their growing roster. The club used targeted allocation money to acquire the 24-year-old from FK Austria Wien in the Aus...
Jan 25, 2019
Calgary Stampeders re-sign top returner Terry Williams
CALGARY - One of the heroes of the Calgary Stampeders’ 2018 Grey Cup win is staying with the CFL team. Terry Williams, who returned a punt 97 yards for a touchdown in the Stamps’ Grey Cup ...
Jan 25, 2019
Ohio governor delays execution, orders look at other drugs
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed next month’s execution of a condemned Ohio man and ordered the prison system to look at alternative lethal injection drugs. The announcement b...
Jan 25, 2019
Asylum seekers worry new US policy will mean more waiting
TIJUANA, Mexico - Eusebio Gomez thought his arduous journey to the U.S. and monthslong wait in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico, would end when he made it to American soil. But a shift in the Trump ...
Jan 25, 2019
Canada rugby sevens team playing for four-year-old diagnosed with leukemia
The Canadian men’s rugby sevens team will wear orange laces at the New Zealand Sevens this weekend in support of Paisley MacRury, a four-year-old from Abbotsford, B.C., who is battling leukemia....
Jan 25, 2019
Pennsylvania lawmaker urged to resign over sex assault claim
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania state House Republicans on Friday stripped a member of his committee chairmanship and recommended he resign over allegations that he had sex with an incapacitated woman ...
Jan 25, 2019
Police seizure of sex assault suspect's coffee cup justified: Appeal Court
MONTREAL - Quebec’s highest court has ruled that tricking a sexual assault suspect into providing his DNA does not constitute a privacy violation. Giovanni D’Amico had appealed his 2014 co...
Jan 25, 2019
Idaho looks into loud cannon fire at governor's inauguration
BOISE, Idaho - Idaho National Guard’s commanding officer says he will look into 19 startlingly loud ceremonial canon blasts that were part of Gov. Brad Little’s inauguration. The canon fir...
Jan 25, 2019