Category Archives: Canadian Press
Mexicans mob 'AMLO' HQ seeking help for matters big or small
MEXICO CITY - Each morning hundreds of Mexicans crowd at the gates of 216 Chihuahua Street in the capital, home to the white, two-story building that served as President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obra...
Jul 17, 2018
Stormy Daniels set to perform in Ohio 3 weeks after arrest
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Porn star Stormy Daniels is set to return to Ohio next month, three weeks after her arrest at a Columbus strip club on charges that were later dropped. Daniels is known for claiming t...
Jul 17, 2018
Alabama man's 20-mile walk to work attracts praise, new car
PELHAM, Ala. - An Alabama college student whose car broke down just before his first day of work made the 20-mile (32-kilometre) journey on foot, a feat that earned him fame - and a new car. News outl...
Jul 17, 2018
9 animals dead after jaguar escape at New Orleans zoo
NEW ORLEANS - A little girl’s teary-eyed self-portrait, stuffed toys and a stick of taffy from a local street vendor, were among the items left at the entrance to the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans ...
Jul 17, 2018
London woman impaled by beach umbrella on New Jersey shore
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Police say a London woman was impaled by a beach umbrella on the New Jersey shore. The Asbury Park Press reports 67-year-old Margaret Reynolds was at Seaside Heights Monday aft...
Jul 17, 2018
Alabama officers suspended for alleged 'white power' gesture
JASPER, Ala. - An Alabama mayor says four members of his city’s police force have been suspended for making a hand gesture some say is a hate symbol. Jasper Mayor David O’Mary tells news o...
Jul 17, 2018
Officials: In policy shift, US open to meeting with Taliban
WASHINGTON - The United States is open to holding direct talks with the Taliban to encourage negotiations between the militant group and the Afghan government to end 17 years of war, U.S. officials sa...
Jul 17, 2018
Kim slams local North Koreans for unfinished power plant
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has blasted local officials over a delayed construction project, state media reported Tuesday, his second such rebuke over the economy in re...
Jul 17, 2018
A century ago, German sub brought World War I home to US
ORLEANS, Mass. - Over 3,000 miles from the trenches and battlefields of the Western Front, where many hundreds of thousands had already died, residents of Orleans, Massachusetts, were enjoying a typic...
Jul 17, 2018
Texas executes man for 2004 slaying of store owner
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday evening for the fatal shooting of a San Antonio convenience store owner after courts turned down appeals that the state parole board improperl...
Jul 17, 2018