Category Archives: Canadian Press

KINGSTREE, S.C. - A world away from South Carolina’s booming coastal resorts, hundreds of homes remain unrepaired in the county hardest hit by last year’s floods. Now they’re getting...

GLASGOW, Scotland - A Scottish boxer has died after suffering severe bleeding and swelling to his brain during a televised fight. Mike Towell, who was 25, had to be carried from the ring on a stretche...

SAO PAULO - In Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman who once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country’s crown jewe...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. - Almost four years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled his neighbourhood so badly that Britain’s Prince Harry had to stop by for a look at the damage, Paul Jeffrey is ready to slee...

EL CAJON, Calif. - Alfred Olango, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in a suburb of San Diego, will be remembered in a demonstration Saturday organized by clergy members and supporters of...

NEW YORK - Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago? A cast bronze monument dedicated to the victims of ...

BEACH HAVEN, N.J. - Police say a 59-year-old man who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge. They say Stephen Wojciehowski spent two ...

BEIJING - Mi Jung Hur birdied the par-5 18th hole for a 6-under 67 and a one-stroke lead over Canadian Brooke Henderson on Saturday in the Reignwood LPGA Classic. Hur was 5 under on the back nine at R...

SEPANG, Malaysia - Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton put himself in the best possible position to wrest back the lead in the Formula One drivers championship by claiming pole position for the Malaysian G...

BAKU, Azerbaijan - Pope Francis praised Azerbaijan on Sunday as a model for a world divided by violent extremism, sidestepping criticism of the government for the sake of encouraging religious toleran...