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Quebecois couple on quarantined cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus
MONTREAL - An elderly Quebecois couple aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus. The couple's daughter told The Canadian Press in an i...
Feb 15, 2020

Ex-Michigan State hoops star Appling facing heroin charges
WARREN, Mich. - Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling was charged with drug crimes after authorities say they found heroin in his vehicle that he planned to sell. Appling, 28, was arra...
Feb 15, 2020

US woman wanted for husband's 2002 death arrested in Rome
ROME - An American woman wanted in the 2002 death of her husband, whose remains were so badly burned they weren't identified for more than a decade, was arrested in Rome after a multinational search, ...
Feb 15, 2020

Ex-Michigan State hoops star Appling facing heroin charges
WARREN, Mich. - Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling was charged with drug crimes after authorities say they found heroin in his vehicle that he planned to sell. Appling, 28, was arra...
Feb 15, 2020

Japan confirms 12 Canadians on cruise ship infected with novel coronavirus
OTTAWA - Japanese authorities might soon allow people quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship near Tokyo, where 12 Canadians have contracted the novel coronavirus, to disembark and fi...
Feb 15, 2020

Federal Indigenous services minister meets First Nation at rail blockade
TYENDINAGA, Ont. - The federal Indigenous services minister arrived for a meeting today with representatives of the Mohawk Nation to discuss a rail blockade that has shut down rail services across Eas...
Feb 15, 2020

McLaren Racing headlines Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame induction
TORONTO - Racing legend Johnny Rutherford believes it was only a matter of time before McLaren Racing would be honoured by the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame. Since coming to life in 1966,...
Feb 15, 2020

Historic Pincher Creek hotel destroyed by fire
PINCHER CREEK - UPDATE: The historic and century-old King Edward Hotel in Pincher Creek has been gutted by fire. As of late morning Saturday, fire crews continued to douse the smouldering ruins of the...
Feb 15, 2020 Pincher Creek hotel fire -- credit to Jody Robertson

New Zealand teenager Robinson wins GS in absence of Shiffrin
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia - New Zealand teenager Alice Robinson crowned her breakthrough season in the World Cup with a second career victory on Saturday. Robinson, who turned 18 in December, overtook f...
Feb 15, 2020

Supreme Court of Canada to examine solitary confinement in federal prisons
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will revisit provincial court rulings that declared federal provisions on the solitary confinement of prisoners to be unconstitutional - a...
Feb 15, 2020