Category Archives: Canadian Press

Mexico's finance secretary resigns after Trump visit
MEXICO CITY - One of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s closest advisers and confidants, Finance Secretary Luis Videgaray, resigned Wednesday in a move seen as linked to the unpopular decision to in...
Sep 07, 2016

Woods says he hopes to return next month
CARMEL, Ind. - Out of golf for more than a year, Tiger Woods said Wednesday he hopes to play the first event of the PGA Tour season next month and could play as much as twice more before the end of th...
Sep 07, 2016
Flights cancelled for military drills in Russia's south
MOSCOW - Russian airline companies have cancelled dozens of flights and four airports are planning brief closures as Russia hosts massive military exercises in the south and the annexed Crimean penins...
Sep 07, 2016

Ash Carter: Russia sowing seeds of global instability
OXFORD, England - U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter accused Russia on Wednesday of sowing seeds of global instability and questioned whether Moscow genuinely wants a viable cease-fire in Syria. In a h...
Sep 07, 2016
Mississippi officer back at work weeks after fatal shooting
JACKSON, Miss. - A white police officer is back at work in northeast Mississippi, weeks after a grand jury declined to indict him in the shooting death of a black man who ran from a traffic stop. City...
Sep 07, 2016

Bank robbery suspect: Incarceration beats living with wife
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A 70-year-old man accused of robbing a bank in Kansas told investigators he would rather be imprisoned than live with his wife. Court documents say Lawrence John Ripple gave a note...
Sep 07, 2016

Price, Lundqvist, Quick, Murray highlight the likely class of World Cup goaltenders
Kristers Gudlevskis, a little-known fifth-round pick of the Tampa Bay Lightning, briefly turned the hockey world upside down in Sochi with an unbelievable 55-save performance that nearly pushed Latvia...
Sep 07, 2016

LSU's tiger mascot will not take the field this season
BATON ROUGE, La. - Diagnosed with cancer, LSU’s live tiger mascot, Mike VI, won’t take the field during home football games this season but will remain in his habitat instead. The universi...
Sep 07, 2016
Finally deported but Jamaican seeks damages for 5-year immigration detention
TORONTO - A mentally ill man finally deported to Jamaica on Wednesday deserves compensation because his five years in immigration detention was inhumane, illegal and violated his rights, his lawyer to...
Sep 07, 2016

Montreal academics push for release of professor jailed in Iran
MONTREAL - The colleagues of a Canadian-Iranian university professor jailed in Iran are urging governments to apply pressure as her detention enters a third month with no end in sight. Homa Hoodfar, w...
Sep 07, 2016