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Legacy moment: Pelosi leads 'sombre' Trump impeachment
WASHINGTON - The House's centre of power took a seat toward the back of the chamber Wednesday. Her golden mace brooch, symbol of the House and the speaker's authority, glinted. And when it was time to...
Dec 20, 2019
1 dead, 3 hurt in stabbings at Oregon shopping centre, town
BEAVERTON, Ore. - A 20-year-old attacker carried out a series of stabbings and carjackings at a suburban Portland shopping centre and in a nearby town Wednesday, killing one person and wounding three ...
Dec 20, 2019
Junior Johnson, "The Last American Hero," dies at 88
Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson, the moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as "The Last American Hero" by author Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire, died Friday. He was 88. NASCAR announc...
Dec 20, 2019
Dodgers lefty Rich Hill is Tony Conigliaro Award winner
BOSTON - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill has won the Tony Conigliaro Award. The honour goes to a major leaguer "who has overcome adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination and cou...
Dec 20, 2019
Defiant Trump rallies supporters as House impeaches him
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - Defiant in the face of a historic rebuke, President Donald Trump labeled his impeachment by the House of Representatives on Wednesday "a suicide march" for the Democratic Partyas...
Dec 20, 2019
Junior Johnson, "The Last American Hero," dies at 88
Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson, a moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as "The Last American Hero" by author Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire, died Friday. He was 88. NASCAR announced...
Dec 20, 2019
Wanted Claresholm man may be in Lethbridge
CLARESHOLM, AB - Calgary Police Service is asking for the public's help in finding a man wanted on three counts of uttering threats and one count of failing to comply with a court order.They are looki...
Dec 20, 2019 Dallas Donald Curtis. (Supplied by Calgary Police Service)
Court: Part of 'Obamacare' invalid, more review needed
NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down "Obamacare's" now-toothless requirement that Americans carry health insurance but sidestepped a ruling on the law's overall constitutiona...
Dec 20, 2019
Warrant issued for suspect in fatal collision in Fort Macleod
FORT MACLEOD, AB - RCMP are asking your help in finding a southern Alberta man that is believed to have been responsible for one person's death in a collision last week.Tristan Big Sorrel Horse of Gle...
Dec 20, 2019 Tristan Big Sorrel Horse. (Supplied by Fort Macleod RCMP)
Canadian speedskater Ivanie Blondin back on track after Olympic disappointment
CALGARY - Ivanie Blondin is in a good place. She wants to stay there. With the help of some four-legged friends, the devastation the speedskater felt after 2018 Winter Olympics is shrinking ...
Dec 20, 2019