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Police: Man intending to visit Taylor Swift's home arrested
WESTERLY, R.I. - Police in Rhode Island have arrested an Iowa man they say intended to visit singer Taylor Swift's beachfront mansion in the state and was carrying a backpack containing a baseball bat...
Jul 23, 2019
Miss America pageant leaving Atlantic City for Connecticut
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - There she is. Here she isn't. Miss America is leaving Atlantic City for the second time, trading one casino town for another in a move that caps a whirlwind of change at the near...
Jul 23, 2019
'Art of Self-Defence' examines, satirizes toxic masculinity
LOS ANGELES - Director Riley Stearns says he didn't realize he was making a perfect movie for 2019 when he started writing "The Art of Self-Defence " four years ago. But his darkly comedic riff on tox...
Jul 23, 2019
Lametti swats back at Ontario attorney general over legal aid spending
OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says the Ontario government's rejecting shared responsibility for legal aid as an "excuse for spending cuts" will leave many of the province's most vuln...
Jul 23, 2019
Artists' work reduced to ash after fire destroys shared Winnipeg studio
WINNIPEG - Some Winnipeg artists have lost nearly their entire life's work in an aggressive fire that reduced a shared studio space to rubble and ash. Performance artist Shawna Dempsey was o...
Jul 23, 2019
A year later, ceremony commemorates victims of the Danforth shooting
TORONTO - The names of the two people killed in a shooting in Toronto's Greektown last year were read aloud in a ceremony meant to honour their memory Sunday afternoon. Those gathered held a...
Jul 23, 2019
2nd person announces primary challenge to US Sen. Markey
BOSTON - A business executive who spent his childhood in what he calls unstable, cruel and at times violent foster homes announced a primary challenge Tuesday to Democratic Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Edw...
Jul 23, 2019
Charleston Hughes, Matt Nichols and Shaq Evans named CFL top performers
TORONTO - Saskatchewan defensive lineman Charleston Hughes and receiver Shaq Evans and Winnipeg quarterback Matt Nichols are the CFL top performers for Week 6. Hughes sacked Mike Reilly three tim...
Jul 23, 2019
Stampede announces Decorating Contest winners
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede have announced the winners of its annual store decorating contest.Judges toured the city on Monday, reviewing more than 20 entries.The win...
Jul 23, 2019 Age Care Valleyview were winners in the Institutions and Community Services category of the Store Decorating contest (all photos courtesy Heather Hart and Randy Feere)
As death toll rises, scientists struggle to track massive, elusive right whales
HALIFAX - They are among the world's largest creatures, but the planet's 400 remaining North Atlantic right whales are remarkably elusive. Though adult members of this critically endangered speci...
Jul 23, 2019