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Football, dramas lead Nielsen's weekly top 20 list
NEW YORK (AP) - Here's the Nielsen company's list of the 20 most-watched prime-time television programs for the week of Oct. 3-9: 1. NFL Football: Cincinnati at Baltimore, NBC, 15.88 million. 2. "NFL ...
Oct 11, 2022

Angela Lansbury, 'Murder She Wrote' star, dies at 96
NEW YORK - Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals "Mame'' and "Gypsy'' and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the ...
Oct 11, 2022

Fire Prevention Week: 'Fire won't wait. Plan your escape'
MEDICINE HAT, AB - This week is the National Fire Protection Association's 100th anniversary of Fire Prevention Week."Fire Prevention Week is really just educating the public on hazards in their house...
Oct 11, 2022

Hope Solo to object to US Soccer equal pay deal
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawyer for Hope Solo filed a notice with a court indicating the former U.S. goalkeeper wants to object to the settlement of the equal pay lawsuit between her former teammates and ...
Oct 11, 2022

Premier Smith to replace CMOH Dr. Deena Hinshaw
MEDICINE HAT, AB -Premier Danielle Smith is promising some big changes to healthcare in Alberta including leadership.Smith says chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw will be out. Hinshaw w...
Oct 11, 2022

Canada and Japan launch formal talks on intelligence-sharing pact
OTTAWA - Canada and Japan have launched talks aimed at sharing military intelligence Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly met today with her Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi in Tokyo. The two ad...
Oct 11, 2022

Raptors coach says Scottie Barnes is playing 'catch-up' after minor ankle injury
TORONTO - Scottie Barnes, last season's NBA rookie of the year, has been slowed by an ankle issue that has affected his conditioning, according to Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse. "Listen, Scottie is...
Oct 11, 2022

Toronto Raptors hope technology off the court leads to success on it
TORONTO - Back in the day, a basketball player might sneak into a gym to work on his shot late at night. Now a Toronto Raptor can do it and have a machine verbally and visually track his shot. And the...
Oct 11, 2022

Vancouver Canucks Brock Boeser returns from hand injury ahead of season opener
VANCOUVER - Brock Boeser will start the season with the Vancouver Canucks after all. The 25-year-old right-winger returned to full practice with his teammates Tuesday, just over two weeks after the Ca...
Oct 11, 2022

Brett Favre says he's 'unjustly smeared' in welfare case
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says he is being treated unfairly in news coverage of a Mississippi welfare scandal, including about payments he received to help fund a pet p...
Oct 11, 2022