Category Archives: Canadian Press
Spain: 1,100 migrants try to breach N. African border fence
BARCELONA, Spain - More than 50 Moroccan and Spanish border guards were injured repelling around 1,100 African migrants who attempted to storm a border fence and enter Spain’s North African encl...
Jan 01, 2017
Hundreds flee fighting near Syria's capital despite truce
BEIRUT - Hundreds of civilians fled a mountainous region outside the Syrian capital on Sunday, where government forces were battling several insurgent groups, including an al-Qaida-linked outfit exclu...
Jan 01, 2017
Toledo, Ohio police: Finds of old ammo becoming more common
TOLEDO, Ohio - A family cleaning out a home in the Toledo, Ohio-area home of a relative who recently died stumbled across a live hand grenade from the World War II era. Toledo authorities say such fin...
Jan 01, 2017
New York trains roll on new subway line envisioned in 1920s
New Yorkers’ long wait to take a subway under Manhattan’s far Upper East Side ended Sunday when three new stations on the Second Avenue line opened to the public. The first train left the ...
Jan 01, 2017
Debris washes ashore amid search for small plane carrying 6
CLEVELAND - Debris washed ashore near an airport where a small plane carrying six people took off shortly before it vanished over Lake Erie near Cleveland, the city said Sunday. Authorities received m...
Jan 01, 2017
In red states, businesses gearing up to fight bathroom bills
NASHVILLE - Sean Henry, the president of Tennessee’s NHL team, is stunned he even has to explain why he hopes state legislators will snub bills similar to North Carolina’s transgender bath...
Jan 01, 2017
Queen Elizabeth II misses church due to 'heavy cold'
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II missed a traditional New Year’s Day church service Sunday because of the effects of a lingering cold. Buckingham Palace said the queen “does not yet feel ready ...
Jan 01, 2017
Brazil: man kills ex-wife, son, others in New Year's crime
SAO PAULO - A man broke into a house in southeastern Brazil where his ex-wife was ringing in the New Year and shot and killed her, their son and at least 10 other people before taking his own life, mi...
Jan 01, 2017
The Latest: Delaware businessman wounded in Turkey attack
ISTANBUL - The Latest on a deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub. (all times local): 7:30 a.m. The State Department has confirmed that a Delaware businessman originally from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania...
Jan 01, 2017
East Coast takes the plunge in polar bear swims
An octogenarian, with the words “Happy 2017” scrawled across his body in permanent marker, took the inaugural leap into the Atlantic Ocean in one of the first polar bear swims of the year....
Jan 01, 2017