Category Archives: Canadian Press

LYNN, Ark. - Authorities say an 8-year-old boy who was playing in a church cemetery was killed after a tombstone broke and fell on top of him. The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says the boy w...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An attorney for a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband told a jury that detectives were more interested in starring on “Cops” than ...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau admitted Monday that he gets lobbied on government business when he’s the featured draw at Liberal party fundraisers. But the prime minister insisted he doesn’t let...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the deaths of two Canadian hostages in the Philippines was a low point for him in the last year. The militant group Abu Sayyaf killed Robert Hall and John R...

HALIFAX - Police officers are donning hazmat suits as they respond to Halifax crime scenes where deadly opioids are suspected, in what’s described as an early sign of fentanyl’s spread int...

HALIFAX - An apparent debate over the cost of Nova Scotia’s annual Christmas tree gift to Boston has made it to the front page of one of the most-read papers in the United States. The tale of th...

HALIFAX - The certification of a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of passengers aboard an Air Canada jet that crashed at the Halifax airport in 2015 was challenged in court Monday by federal lawye...

Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid are duking it out for NHL supremacy. The race, which will likely include the Art Ross and Hart trophies by season’s end, is too close to call, even if it likely ...

NEW ORLEANS - The man who killed retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter, rather than the more serious second-degree murder char...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected challenges to the estimated $1 billion plan by the NFL to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed by former players, clearing the way for p...