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Your Ward News editor faces sentencing today; says ready to go to jail
TORONTO - The editor of a free Toronto-based publication faces sentencing today for wilfully promoting hatred against women and Jews. The prosecution wants to see James Sears jailed for 12 months. The...
Jul 15, 2019
Weakened Barry rolls into Louisiana, drenches Gulf Coast
NEW ORLEANS - Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that officials had feared could test the levees and pumps...
Jul 15, 2019
Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation
MOSCOW - Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents - ranging from scantily...
Jul 15, 2019
Global concern grows over Canada's funding of fight against AIDS, TB, malaria
OTTAWA - International concern is growing in medical and development circles that the Trudeau government is about to step back from its much-publicized global leadership on eradicating AIDS, tube...
Jul 15, 2019
NATO secretary general visits Canada for Trudeau meeting, base tour
OTTAWA - The secretary-general of NATO is in Canada today meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Jens Stoltenberg will tour CFB Petawawa with Trudeau and discuss Canada's NATO deployments in Latv...
Jul 15, 2019
Judges to decide on bond hearings for R. Kelly indictments
CHICAGO - Federal judges will decide how to proceed with bond hearings in two separate federal indictments against R. Kelly. The 52-year-old singer was arrested Thursday night while walking his dog on...
Jul 14, 2019
Mavericks sweep Bombers on the road, post first winning record since mid-June
BROOKS, AB - June 12 is a day that could have changed the Medicine Hat Mavericks season entirely.Holding a 6-5 record facing the Brooks Bombers, the Mavericks lost their sixth game of the 2019 WCBL se...
Jul 14, 2019 File Photo
Mural Fest artists give downtown Medicine Hat a brand new look
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A walk through the downtown core of Medicine Hat has turned a little more colourful thanks to six artists plying their trade in the scoring heat over the weekend.Street Art Works he...
Jul 14, 2019 Photo courtesy of Scott Roblin
Domingo Germán helps Yankees beat Blue Jays 4-0
NEW YORK - Many players use the All-Star break as a time to rest. Yankees starter Domingo Germn spent most of his time preparing for his next start. Germn cruised through six innings of three-hit ball...
Jul 14, 2019
Smith & Freimark named 2019 Medicine Hat Stampede Rodeo royalty
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat's newest royalty was crowned on Saturday night, as the 2019 Medicine Hat Stampede and Rodeo has it's new queen and princess.In front of a few hundred spectators at the ...
Jul 14, 2019 Photo courtesy of Scott Roblin