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DUNEDIN, Fla. - Marcus Stroman is ready to embrace a leadership role with the Blue Jays this season, but he's concerned the lack of veteran presence on the team's roster will do a disservice to Toront...
Feb 19, 2019
LOS ANGELES - The sci-fi fantasy "Alita: Battle Angel" topped the charts and beat out a number of newcomers including the meta romantic comedy "Isn't It Romantic" and the horror sequel "Happy Death Da...
Feb 19, 2019
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a measure gradually hiking the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, the highest in the Midwest. It was one of the new Democratic gove...
Feb 19, 2019
Born in the 3-D land rush, "How to Train Your Dragon" has never quite shrugged off the bland corporate sheen attached to it from the start. But almost a decade since taking flight in 2010, these movie...
Feb 19, 2019
PARIS - Officials in the French city of Marseille say a knife-wielding man has been shot dead after he allegedly attacked several people on a major street. French media report at least two pedestrians...
Feb 19, 2019
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - This time the teachers' strike was only hours old when lawmakers acted. Just as the strike began Tuesday, the West Virginia House of Delegates effectively killed a complex educatio...
Feb 19, 2019
OTTAWA - A convoy of angry Albertans and other westerners rolled up to Parliament Hill today to protest federal energy and environmental policies. Scores of people gathered in knee...
Feb 19, 2019
Chicago police are investigating a tip that on the night "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett reported being attacked by two masked men he was in an elevator of his apartment building with two brothers late...
Feb 19, 2019
LONDON - Wolverhampton held on to beat Championship side Bristol City 1-0 to reach the quarterfinals of the FA Cup on Sunday. The second-tier team threatened from a series of set-pieces late in the ga...
Feb 19, 2019
Seven children, all members of a Syrian family who arrived in Canada about two years ago, died in an early morning house fire Tuesday in Halifax, the worst fire toll in recent memory in Nova Scotia. S...
Feb 19, 2019