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BATON ROUGE, La. - A basketball-sized grapefruit has brought two world records to a Louisiana couple. The giant citrus grew in the yard of Mary Beth and Doug Meyer of Slidell. The Guinness Book of Wor...

CHICAGO - Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx says the work of a special prosecutor investigating why her office dropped charges against Jussie Smollett accusing the actor of staging an attack on hi...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives' former leader doesn't agree with the current leader's assertion that Canada got taken to the cleaners by Donald Trump on the renegotiated NAFTA. Rona Ambrose, who was inter...

HALIFAX - An invasive insect from Asia is expected to kill almost every ash tree in Canada, but Donnie McPhee has a plan to preserve the species. Co-ordinator f...

MONCTON, N.B. - The Montreal Alouettes held off a late Toronto comeback attempt to beat the Argonauts 28-22 Sunday, in a contest that featured a spectacular play coach Khari Jones says he ca...

OTTAWA - Thousands of troops from more than two-dozen countries including Canada are kicking off an annual military-training exercise in the Middle Eastern country of Jordan amid heightened tensions b...

VANCOUVER - The father of a suspected killer at the centre of a nationwide manhunt is trying to access a video described as his son's "last will and testament," the man's lawyer said Sunday. Alan...

City council voted 5-1 in favour of a partial tax return to a Meadow Lake property owner on the basis that council felt the city did not provide proper services due to a misclassification of the road ...

MONTREAL - This is hardly just another game for Whitecaps goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau. Coming off a record-setting performance, Crepeau will face his former club for the first time when the last-place V...

JUNEAU, Alaska - BP, a major player on Alaska's North Slope for decades, is selling all of its assets in the state, the company announced Tuesday. Hilcorp Alaska is purchasing BP interests in both the...