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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Jerry Sandusky lost a bid for a new trial Tuesday but a Pennsylvania appeals court ordered him to be resentenced for a 45-count child molestation conviction. The former Penn State as...

Vancouver Canucks goalie prospect Mike DiPietro has been called up to the NHL for the first time. The club says in a statement that the 19-year-old is being summoned from the Ontario Hockey League's O...

The Meadow Lake Dogsled Club is hosting the Tom Ouellette Memorial Sled Dog Races presents the Tom Ouellette Memorial Sled Dog Races:February 9 & 10th from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. starting nort...

MONTREAL - With Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on a 2-on-0 breakaway in overtime, it looked like the Edmonton Oilers were destined to snap their four-game losing skid. But Draisaitl's bobbling pass...

TORONTO - Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is asking Alberta youth court to order his release and declare his eight-year sentence - imposed by a widely maligned military commission in the Uni...

TORONTO - When Bruce McArthur chose to kill, he looked to the margins of society to find his prey. While all eight of the men he admitted murdering had ties to Toronto's gay community, ...

OTTAWA - Federal minister Bill Blair says his ideas for new gun-control rules might come within weeks. Since August, Blair been working on ways to get handguns and assault rifles off Canada's str...

OTTAWA - Canada's border-security minister says there is a backlog in the screening of asylum seekers, including those who are considered irregular border-crossers walking into the country from the Un...

OTTAWA - Two major Canadian unions' support for Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is rooted in ignorance of the country's struggle for freedom and the plight of its downtrodden and abused workers,...

MONTREAL - Michel Cadotte, on trial for second-degree murder in the death of his ailing wife, said Tuesday he fully understood what he was doing when he smothered her with a pillow. Under cr...