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Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign veteran Peters to one-year contract extension
HAMILTON - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed American cornerback Jamal Peters to a one-year contract extension Monday. The deal keeps Peters with the CFL club through the 2025 season. Peters, 27, has reg...
Sep 23, 2024
Montreal's Félix Auger-Aliassime to lead Canada into Davis Cup Final 8
MONTREAL - Montreal's Flix Auger-Aliassime will lead the Canadian team into the Davis Cup Final 8, with Frank Dancevic returning as captain. Auger-Aliassime will once again be joined by Denis Shapoval...
Sep 23, 2024
Parents of 28-year-old man killed by Montreal police in 2017 want case reopened
MONTREAL - The family of a Quebec man killed by police in 2017 is calling on the province's justice minister to order an independent investigation after the Crown declined to charge the officers invol...
Sep 23, 2024
Presidents Cup: Canadians on International team have ties to Kent State University
Herb Page was going about his business on a Tuesday morning when Mackenzie Hughes, one of his former star players on Kent State University's men's golf team, reached out to him on FaceTime. Hughes sai...
Sep 23, 2024
Birmingham, Alabama, officials plead for information on mass shooting and offer reward money
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Officials in Birmingham, Alabama, pleaded Monday with members of the public for information leading to arrests in a weekend mass shooting that killed four people and injured mo...
Sep 23, 2024
In the news today: Girl, 6, missing near Burns Lake, B.C. is safe
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Girl, 6, missing near Burns Lake, B.C. is safe A 6-year-old girl who had been missing from her community in no...
Sep 23, 2024
A look at recent B.C. crime and public safety incidents ahead of fall election
Crime and street disorder have become a key political issue in British Columbia amid a series of violent stranger attacks and other public safety incidents. Here are some of events that have made the ...
Sep 23, 2024
Early days of B.C. campaign sees NDP, Conservatives trade barbs over housing, drugs
VANCOUVER - Drug policy and housing shortages are emerging as the top issues early in British Columbia's election campaign. New Democrat Leader David Eby and B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad spent...
Sep 23, 2024
Pope cancels his audiences due to slight illness days before a new trip
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis cancelled his audiences Monday because of a "slight flu-like state" just days before he is to embark on a trip to Belgium and Luxembourg, the Vatican said. The move was descri...
Sep 23, 2024
Israel calls on Lebanese to leave homes where Hezbollah stores arms as warplanes launch new strikes
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military has called on people in Lebanon to immediately evacuate homes and other buildings where the Hezbollah militant group stores weapons. The two sides exchanged heavy...
Sep 23, 2024