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Last-place CF Montreal returns home after seven-game road trip to open MLS season
MONTREAL - For the first time in 171 days, CF Montreal will be playing in front of the Stade Saputo crowd when the Major League Soccer club hosts Charlotte FC on Saturday evening. Montreal (0-5-2), wh...
Apr 11, 2025
South Carolina kills executes second man by firing squad in 5 weeks
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past fiv...
Apr 11, 2025
Expansion of urban canopy in Medicine Hat may come with approved budget
A budget amendment approved at Medicine Hat city council on Monday to expand urban canopies through park and residential planting that would see 2,400 trees planted in three years.The city's Parks and...
Apr 11, 2025
Medicine Hat-area tourism industry not worried by trade war, advocate says
A key Medicine Hat advocate says he expects year-over-year tourism to the region to continue growing without any significant impact from an ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States.Touri...
Apr 11, 2025
Argentina says it will lift the country's strict currency controls with the help from the IMF
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentine President Javier Milei's economy minister announced on Friday that the libertarian government would lift the country's strict capital and currency controls in ...
Apr 11, 2025
Wickens returns to elite racing with use of hand controls 7 years after he was paralyzed in a crash
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Nearly seven years after he was paralyzed in an IndyCar crash, Robert Wickens will return to elite competition on Saturday when he drives a Corvette in the IMSA sports car ra...
Apr 11, 2025
Canadian men to open Gold Cup in Vancouver with coach suspended from sideline
Canada will begin CONCACAF Gold Cup play against Honduras in Vancouver before shifting to Houston for its remaining two Group B games. The 30th-ranked Canadian men will take on No. 75 Honduras on June...
Apr 11, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal upholds murder conviction for Vancouver Island prison escapee
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of James Busch, who escaped from a Vancouver Island prison in 2019 with another inmate, then killed a man...
Apr 11, 2025
Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
JENA, La. (AP) - Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday during a hearing over the legality of k...
Apr 11, 2025
A convicted killer who was mistakenly released from jail is caught 2 weeks later
ATLANTA (AP) - The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that a convicted killer who was mistakenly released from a Georgia jail has been caught two weeks later in Florida - ending days of anxiety for the...
Apr 11, 2025