Category Archives: Canadian Press
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 31
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 31 --- NS LIBERALS WIN SECOND STRAIGHT MAJORITY Nova Scotians have elected Stephen McNeil’s Liberals to a second straight majority government, but onl...
May 31, 2017
Red Alert! Tulowitzki hits grand slam as Blue Jays crush Reds 17-2
TORONTO - Credit Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price for having a sense of humour after his team was on the receiving end of a 17-2 pasting from the Toronto Blue Jays. “It could have been worse,...
May 30, 2017
The Latest: Philippine military says foreign fighters killed
MARAWI, Philippines - The Latest on militant violence in a southern Philippine city (all times local): 8 a.m. The Philippine military chief says three Malaysians, an Indonesian and possibly Arab extre...
May 30, 2017
Colombia pushes back deadline for rebel disarmament
BOGOTA - Colombia’s government is pushing back by 20 days the deadline for leftist rebels to turn over their weapons under a peace deal. President Juan Manuel Santos announced the decision in a ...
May 30, 2017
Thieves snatch $1,800 baby cockatoo from pet store
MINEOLA, N.Y. - Police are looking for a baby cockatoo reported stolen from a suburban New York pet store. News station CBS2 says the 12-week-old Goffin’s cockatoo was taken Saturday from For Bi...
May 30, 2017
With Agassi along for a bit, Djokovic opens defence in Paris
PARIS - If Novak Djokovic was hoping to take a little pressure and attention off himself after some rough results, he might very well have found the perfect way to do that by adding Andre Agassi as a ...
May 30, 2017
Reds slugger Joey Votto returns to his native Toronto for interleague series
TORONTO - Cincinnati slugger Joey Votto has built a resume that seems to get better with every passing season. Over parts of 11 seasons with the Reds, the Canadian first baseman has 233 career homers,...
May 30, 2017
Paramedics, officer hurt by combative patient at scene of four-vehicle collision
CALGARY - Two paramedics and a police officer have been injured by a combative patient at the scene of a collision on a Calgary freeway. One paramedic’s injuries are being described as serious b...
May 30, 2017
Officer's attorneys want Castile gun permit evidence omitted
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Philando Castile’s permit to legally carry a gun became a point of focus in the days after he was shot and killed by a Minnesota police officer, with some questioning whether C...
May 30, 2017
Old South monument backers embrace "Confederate Catechism"
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Sometimes it seems like the impassioned people who want to preserve Confederate monuments across the South are reading a different history book than the rest of the nation. In fact,...
May 30, 2017