Category Archives: Canadian Press

Man upset by wife's illness kills them both at hospital
VALHALLA, N.Y. - A man who said he wanted to end his ailing wife’s suffering shot her to death in her bed at a suburban New York hospital Wednesday and then killed himself, police said. Richard ...
Aug 08, 2018

Gay, Native American Democrat busts candidate mould in Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan. - Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas added her name Wednesday to her party’s increasingly diverse slate of candidates advancing to the November ballot. Davids, who would be the first...
Aug 08, 2018

Malaysian bicycle racing team's stolen wheels recovered by Alberta RCMP
NISKU, Alta. - The RCMP has recovered nine of 10 expensive bicycles that were stolen earlier this summer from a teenage Malaysian cycling team training in Edmonton. The bikes - believed to be worth mo...
Aug 08, 2018

Longtime Quebec Liberal John Ciaccia dies at 85
MONTREAL - Longtime Quebec Liberal John Ciaccia, whose quarter century in provincial politics was marked by a stint as native affairs minister during the explosive Oka Crisis in 1990, has died. Ciacci...
Aug 08, 2018

GOP congressman from New York charged with insider trading
NEW YORK - Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins of New York was arrested Wednesday on charges he fed inside information he gleaned from sitting on the board of a biotechnology corporation to his s...
Aug 08, 2018

Good news for Manziel, Als is there's nowhere to go from here but up
The good news for Johnny Manziel and the Montreal Alouettes is, theoretically speaking, there’s nowhere to go but up. Manziel’s first CFL regular-season appearance last week was one to for...
Aug 08, 2018

Congo's president won't run again in long-delayed election
KINSHASA, Congo - Congo’s president is not running again in December’s long-delayed elections, easing concerns by the opposition and international community that he would try to stay in of...
Aug 08, 2018

UK prince, prime minister mark centenary of Battle of Amiens
AMIENS, France - Britain’s Prince William and Prime Minister Theresa May, joined by ministers and ambassadors from Allied countries and a former German president, marked on Wednesday the centena...
Aug 08, 2018
American tourists among six dead after crash on Alberta mountain highway
JASPER, Alta. - Six people have died, including two tourists from the United States, following a highway crash in Alberta’s scenic Jasper National Park. The collision happened about 5 p.m. Tuesd...
Aug 08, 2018
Van used by rock icons Aerosmith in '70s found in the woods
CHESTERFIELD, Mass. - Long before Aerosmith filled stadiums with tens of thousands of fans, the band travelled New England in a tiny van playing to smaller crowds. That dilapidated van has been found ...
Aug 08, 2018