Category Archives: Canadian Press

TRENTON, N.J. - Donald Trump is pledging that the government he appoints will bring sweeping change to Washington’s culture. So far, that promise comes with a heavy New Jersey accent. Despite be...

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Hurricane Newton soaked Mexico’s western Pacific coast with heavy rain Monday and took aim at Baja California’s twin resorts of Los Cabos, where residents nailed p...

MINNEAPOLIS - To crack Minnesota’s biggest cold case - the 1989 abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling - authorities went back to the early days of the investigation. They turned a renewed sp...

ST. LOUIS - Phyllis Schlafly, the outspoken conservative activist who helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and founded the Eagle Forum political group, has died. She was 92. Schlafly&...

NEW YORK - Revelers in costumes danced as the sounds of steel drums filled the air Monday at the city’s annual West Indian Day Parade, but despite an expanded police presence violence again marr...

WASHINGTON - City officials in Washington are tearing up a littering citation issued to a toddler. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/2cdBTdD ) 2-year-old Harper Westover received a “No...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says the death toll from a construction site collapse in Tel Aviv has risen to four. Rescue teams led by the military’s Home Front Command have been searching fo...

BOSTON - Beleaguered Boston straphangers may find solace in a new website that pokes fun at the nation’s oldest subway system. A pair of longtime Boston commuters created what they call the R...

CARBONDALE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania police station has reopened after being cleared of a swarm of bees that forced officers to abandon the post. The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2cnxy7d ) repo...

BEIRUT - Near-simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State group struck in and around strongholds of the Syrian government and Kurdish troops Monday, killing at least 48 people in a wave of atta...