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Toronto Argonauts name Mike (Pinball) Clemons as their new general manager
TORONTO - He has been a player, head coach and front-office executive. Michael (Pinball) Clemons can now add the title of general manager to his Toronto Argonauts resume. Clemons was named A...
Oct 10, 2019
Iran women freely at FIFA soccer match, 1st time in decades
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian women have just watched a FIFA soccer match kickoff after being freely allowed into a stadium for the first time in decades. Iran faces Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifier ...
Oct 10, 2019
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime loses to Tsitsipas in second round
SHANGHAI - Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime has fallen short in his bid to upset Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas for the third time this year. The 19-year-old from Montreal lost 7-6(3), 7...
Oct 10, 2019
Former Stirling Elementary School secretary receives conditional sentence for stealing nearly $90,000
LETHBRIDGE, AB - There will be no jail time for a former Stirling Elementary School secretary who pleaded guilty to stealing $89,455.81 from the school where she used to work.Instead, Kathleen Broadhe...
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Retiree checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits
WASHINGTON - Social Security says millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase in 2020 - and that comes to about $24 more a month more the average retired worker. That news coul...
Oct 10, 2019
Suspect in rapper Mac Miller's drug death to appear in court
LOS ANGELES - A man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller the drugs that killed him last year is set to appear in federal court in Los Angeles. Prosecutors allege 28-year-old Cameron Pettit of West H...
Oct 10, 2019
2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal
STOCKHOLM - Two Nobel Prizes in literature - one for 2019 and one for last year - will be announced Thursday after the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that had rock...
Oct 10, 2019
Are we alone? Nobel Prize goes to 3 who tackled cosmic query
WASHINGTON - They are two of the most fundamental questions not just of science, but of humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists split ...
Oct 10, 2019
With China rift ongoing, NBA says free speech remains vital
TOKYO - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kon...
Oct 10, 2019
Police: Indonesia's security minister wounded in stabbing
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A knife-wielding man wounded Indonesia's security minister, a local police chief and another person in a western province on Thursday. Police said the attacker may have been influ...
Oct 10, 2019