Category Archives: Canadian Press
Study: New Mexico, Georgia had highest jail rates in US
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - New Mexico and Georgia - two states with some of the nation’s largest percentages of minority residents in the United States - had the nation’s highest rates of inmates...
Jun 02, 2017
5 potential jurors advance at Minnesota officer's trial
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Five potential jurors have moved to the next round as a jury is selected for the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist. The judge and att...
Jun 02, 2017
Milwaukee council OKs $2.3M for family of man killed by cop
Milwaukee officials approved a $2.3 million settlement Wednesday for the child of a mentally ill black man who was fatally shot in a 2014 confrontation with a white police officer. The Milwaukee Commo...
Jun 02, 2017
Criminal expert: Tiger Woods made mistake issuing statement
DUBLIN, Ohio - Another public embarrassment for Tiger Woods is shifting to the legal side following his arrest in Florida on a DUI charge, with one criminal expert suggesting Woods made a mistake by c...
Jun 02, 2017
SpaceX taking recycling all the way to orbit with cargo ship
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX is taking recycling to a whole new realm - all the way to orbit. On this week’s supply run to the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch a Dragon capsule t...
Jun 02, 2017
Dakota Access pipeline expected to begin shipping Thursday
BISMARCK, N.D. - The developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, which is expected to begin shipping oil on Thursday, will face scrutiny later this summer on whether it violated North Dakota rules du...
Jun 02, 2017
Painful words: How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic
Nearly 40 years ago, a respected doctor wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine with some very good news: Out of nearly 40,000 patients given powerful pain drugs in a Boston hospital, on...
Jun 02, 2017
Collaboration between U.S. and drug companies could benefit Canada: scientist
VANCOUVER - A scientist says a public-private partnership aimed at developing medications that would combat overdose deaths in the United States could potentially help chronic drug users in Canada. Dr...
Jun 02, 2017
Minister offers condolences on bomb that killed 90 in Kabul
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is condemning a massive suicide explosion in Kabul that killed 90 and wounded hundreds of people inside the city’s so-called diplomatic zone. ...
Jun 02, 2017
Kinder Morgan Canada says Trans Mountain moving forward after extensive review
CALGARY - The president of Kinder Morgan Canada (TSX:KML) has defended the Trans Mountain project as having gone through rigorous assessments in his first comments since the B.C. NDP-Green party allia...
Jun 02, 2017