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Lead paint suppliers settle California lawsuit for $305M
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The nation's former major suppliers of lead paint have agreed to pay California's largest cities and counties $305 million to settle a nearly 20-year-old lawsuit, attorneys said W...
Jul 17, 2019
Southern Alberta boy enjoys every child's dream - a toy shopping spree
LETHBRIDGE, AB - It's something you only see in the movies. A toy store opens up early for one special child to go in and select whatever toys they want. But it wasn't a movie segment on Wednesday (Ju...
Jul 17, 2019 The Deering family gears up for their 3-Minute Dash in Toys R Us. (Lethbridge News Now)
Cambodia says 11 containers of Canadian trash among illegal garbage shipments
OTTAWA - The Canadian government has asked officials in Cambodia for more information about 11 containers of Canadian garbage the southeast Asian country's environment ministry says ended up there ill...
Jul 17, 2019
Weather improving: Some Ontario fire evacuees staying in Regina heading home
REGINA - Some evacuees who were put up in Regina when they were forced to flee a wildfire in northwestern Ontario are heading home. Last week, Saskatchewan agreed to welcome about one-quarter of ...
Jul 17, 2019
U.S. tug firm to be sentenced for 2016 spill in B.C. First Nation's territory
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A Texas-based company is scheduled to be sentenced after pleading guilty to a diesel spill from a tug boat that ran aground and sank in a First Nation's fishing terr...
Jul 17, 2019
Ethics czar erred in approving LeBlanc's use of Irving plane: Democracy Watch
OTTAWA - An organization that advocates for greater government accountability says Canada's ethics watchdog should never have approved a flight taken by Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBl...
Jul 17, 2019
Two third-party groups disclose first ad spending in pre-election period
OTTAWA - Elections Canada says two third-party groups have started spending money on political advertising in period leading up to the federal election. Canada Growth Council, a pro-energy, pro-f...
Jul 17, 2019
Trio of deadly crashes not a sign DHC-2 Beaver is unsafe: aviation experts
MONTREAL - At least eight people have died in three crashes involving de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver planes in less than a week in Canada, but civil aviation experts say the aircraft remains the safes...
Jul 17, 2019
Prosecutors drop groping case against Kevin Spacey
BOSTON - Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016, more than a week after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellpho...
Jul 17, 2019
18 people arrested in Lethbridge in connection to stolen vehicle & prescription drug trafficking
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police Service says they made a significant bust on Tuesday, July 16h.Members of the Downtown Policing Unit and the Priority Crimes Unit conducted a targeted sweep of the d...
Jul 17, 2019 Lethbridge Police Service station. (Lethbridge News Now)