Category Archives: Canadian Press

Amber alert for missing B.C. children cancelled
COQUITLAM, B.C. - The RCMP have cancelled an Amber Alert that was issued Friday evening for two children and their mother who went missing in Port Coquitlam, B.C. Police said the three were located Fr...
Nov 04, 2016
Raptors 905 hire Nicki Gross, only female coach in NBA Development League
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Raptors 905 have the only female coach in the NBA Development League with the hiring of Nicki Gross on Friday. Gross, who spent last season as an assistant with the Iowa Energy, jo...
Nov 04, 2016
Suspect in racist rant video turns himself in to Abbotsford, B.C., police
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A British Columbia man charged with multiple offences after a video of a racist rant went viral has turned himself into police. Abbotsford police say 47-year-old Karry Corbett was t...
Nov 04, 2016

California looks to single drug for carrying out executions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California’s death row inmates could be executed using one of four different drugs or choose the gas chamber under regulations submitted for final approval Friday, just days...
Nov 04, 2016
Djokovic loses in Paris quarters, Murray has shot at No 1
PARIS - Novak Djokovic’s reign over men’s tennis could be about to end in the City of Lights, and Canada’s Milos Raonic stands in the way of Andy Murray’s possible rise to that...
Nov 04, 2016

Real estate heir Durst in California to face murder charge
LOS ANGELES - New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who became a nationally known name with last year’s HBO documentary “The Jinx,” made his long-awaited arrival in California to f...
Nov 04, 2016
Report: IS group claims responsibility for Turkey attack
NEW YORK - The SITE Intelligence Group reports that the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in Diyarbakir, Turkey, that left nine people dead. The U.S.-based SITE, whi...
Nov 04, 2016
Attorney: Chelsea Manning again attempts suicide in prison
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Chelsea Manning attempted suicide for the second time in recent months while the transgender soldier remains imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information, two of her atto...
Nov 04, 2016
Trans-Canada Highway reopens near B.C.-Alberta boundary following rock slide
FIELD, B.C. - A section of the Trans-Canada Highway has re-opened, more than a week after a rock slide closed the interprovincial route. The slide occurred west of Field, B.C., on Oct. 24 as crews did...
Nov 04, 2016

Ex-Mississippi prisons chief to be jailed until sentencing
JACKSON, Miss. - A federal judge revoked the bail of Mississippi’s former corrections commissioner and sent him to jail Friday to await sentencing in a corruption case after finding he had proba...
Nov 04, 2016