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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
Ukraine president: 'No blackmail' in conversation with Trump
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says there was "no blackmail" in the phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump that helped spark an impeachment inquiry. Responding Thursday t...
Oct 10, 2019
Singh's stance on Bill 21 called out by anti-hate group
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday he is trying to fight support for Bill 21, Quebec's controversial secularism law, among Quebecers by proving to them that a man who wears a turban d...
Oct 10, 2019
Greens look to Fredericton for potential eastern breakthrough on election night
FREDERICTON - In 2015, the Atlantic Canada election map was awash in red as the Liberals swept all of the region's 32 seats, but this year the Green party is hoping to build on recent provincial ...
Oct 10, 2019