Category Archives: Canadian Press

CAMDEN, N.J. - About 1,800 people who have been spent time in a crowded New Jersey jail have inundated federal court officials with lawsuits after an apparent hoax led them to believe money from a set...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are asking the public to be on the lookout for an inmate who fled from a Gatineau hospital on Saturday. They say 22-year-old David Harvey injured a hospital worker ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - They are arguably the least friendly neighbours in Confederation. Newfoundland and Labrador has been feuding with Quebec since before the Atlantic province joined Canada, with...

LONDON - An 89-year-old army veteran who made national headlines in Britain with a newspaper ad seeking work has started his new job. The Cantina Kitchen & Bar in the seaside town of Paignton in s...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The Latest on a deadly fire in a converted warehouse in Oakland, California (all times local): 1:30 p.m. A former tenant of the warehouse where a deadly fire erupted at a dance party...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Hours after a man described by police as a Christmas “Grinch” was released from a Florida jail, he is back in the slammer. The Boyton Beach Police Department says Fra...

WASHINGTON - The longest, loudest standing ovation of the Kennedy Center Honors gala wasn’t reserved for Al Pacino, Mavis Staples or the Eagles. Instead, it went to the man sitting to their left...

DURHAM, N.H. - For the past 25 years, researcher Stephen Jones has tried to understand the threat that bacteria may pose to oysters in New Hampshire’s Great Bay estuary. He often couldn’t ...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump continued to use Twitter Sunday to defend his engagement with the leader of Taiwan, a breach of diplomatic protocol as the U.S. shifted recognition from Taiwan ...

TORONTO - Penny Oleksiak dove off the starting blocks at the Rio Olympics and into Canada’s collective heart. Over a few fabulous days, the 16-year-old became one of the country’s biggest ...