Category Archives: Canadian Press

Judge allows release of man who confessed to 3 killings
TOLEDO, Ohio - An inmate who confessed to killing three people with his older brother during a string of murders in the 1980s will be released from prison under a decades-old plea deal, a judge ruled ...
Aug 09, 2018
Third strong earthquake shakes Lombok as death toll tops 300
TANJUNG, Indonesia - The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death toll from the most powerful of the quakes topped 300...
Aug 09, 2018

Muslim cleric: Grandson found buried at New Mexico compound
TAOS, N.M. - A severely disabled Georgia boy who authorities say was kidnapped by his father and marked for an exorcism was found buried at the ramshackle compound in the New Mexico desert that has be...
Aug 09, 2018
Outdoor fun dwindles as smoky haze hangs over California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A dull haze and the faint smell of smoke from distant blazes have blanketed many California cities for two weeks, forcing summer campers to stay inside, obscuring normally bright ...
Aug 09, 2018
History shared but unreconciled in city's Confederate statue
TUSKEGEE, Ala. - In 1906, when aging, white Confederate veterans of the Civil War and black ex-slaves still lived on the old plantations of the Deep South, two very different celebrations were afoot i...
Aug 09, 2018

Strangling off-duty cop gave killer PTSD, defence tells sentencing judge
HALIFAX - A lawyer for a Halifax man who strangled an off-duty police officer argues that his mental illness - brought on by the murder - should be a mitigating factor in deciding his parole eligibili...
Aug 09, 2018

Deputies: Arrest made in lemonade stand stickup
MONROE, N.C. - North Carolina authorities arrested a juvenile Wednesday they say robbed a 9-year-old lemonade vendor of $17 at gunpoint, a stickup that prompted an outpouring of sympathy and donations...
Aug 09, 2018
Police: Officer on the mend after shooting in Florida
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A police officer is recovering from injuries suffered during an exchange of gunfire outside a Waffle House in northeastern Florida. Officer William Eierman is in stable condition ...
Aug 09, 2018
Timber rattlesnake in New Jersey relocated
MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Authorities have relocated a venomous timber rattlesnake after a woman in New Jersey found it under her car. The woman contacted the state, which alerted its venomous snake...
Aug 09, 2018
Hamas says Gaza cease-fire reached with Israel
JERUSALEM - Gaza’s Hamas rulers said late Thursday that a truce had been reached with Israel, ending an intense two-day burst of violence that had pushed the region closer to war. But the deal d...
Aug 09, 2018