Category Archives: Canadian Press
Dukakis stumbles while picking up trash, requires stitches
BOSTON - Former Democratic presidential contender and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis is feeling the sting of doing a good deed. The 83-year-old tells The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/2gGuB1Y ) he w...
Dec 15, 2016
Peter Holland scores shootout winner for Coyotes in 1st game vs. Maple Leafs
TORONTO - Peter Holland scored the shootout winner in his return to Toronto on Thursday night, less than a week after he was traded from the Maple Leafs to the Coyotes. “You can’t really s...
Dec 15, 2016
Man targeted by Creep Catchers sentenced to prison for child luring
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A British Columbia man targeted by the vigilante group Creep Catchers has been sentenced to prison. Sixty-seven-year-old Don Putt was sentenced to six months, but with credit for ti...
Dec 15, 2016
Nurse who murdered 2 elderly Australians jailed for 36 years
SYDNEY, Australia - A nurse at an Australian nursing home who gave lethal insulin injections to two elderly residents who had complained about her was sentenced on Friday to 36 years in prison, the se...
Dec 15, 2016
North Carolina upheaval: GOP bids to limit next gov's power
RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature took extraordinary steps Thursday to reduce the powers of a Democratic governor-elect, defying raucous protests and threatened l...
Dec 15, 2016
Lawrence Colburn dies; helped end Vietnam's My Lai massacre
Lawrence Manley Colburn, a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War who helped end the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops at My Lai, has died. He was 67. Lisa Colburn, sp...
Dec 15, 2016
California sex offender found guilty of murdering 4 women
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Jurors took just an hour Thursday to convict a California sex offender of killing four women - crimes that were mostly committed while he was being tracked by GPS and that now make...
Dec 15, 2016
Slumping Vancouver Canucks limp home after demoralizing road trip
VANCOUVER - The hot seat is nothing new for Willie Desjardins. The under-fire head coach of the Vancouver Canucks looked to be in trouble with his team mired in an ugly nine-game losing streak earlier...
Dec 15, 2016
Padres INF Yangervis Solarte wins Tony Conigliaro Award
BOSTON - San Diego Padres infielder Yangervis Solarte is the winner of the 2016 Tony Conigliaro Award. The annual honour goes to a baseball player who overcomes adversity through “spirit, determ...
Dec 15, 2016
Canadian officials meet pastor sentenced to life in prison in North Korea
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea’s state media says Canadian officials have met with a detained Ontario pastor who has been sentenced to life in prison in the country. Hyeon Soo Lim, a pa...
Dec 15, 2016