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Record numbers take advantage of advance polls in Alberta election
EDMONTON - Record numbers of Albertans are turning out to cast ballots at advance polls for Tuesday's provincial election. About 127,000 came out Thursday to bring a three-day total to 403,000, with a...
Apr 12, 2019 Elections Alberta
Lakers, coach Luke Walton part ways after 3 losing seasons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Lakers say they have mutually agreed to part ways with coach Luke Walton after three losing seasons. Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka announced Walton's departure Frida...
Apr 12, 2019
Fox host questions whether Omar is 'an American first.'
NEW YORK - Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said Wednesday that Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade is guilty of a "dangerous incitement" for questioning her loyalty to the United States, since she's been t...
Apr 12, 2019
Canadian international Janine Beckie signs contract extension with Man City
TORONTO - Canadian international forward Janine Beckie has signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester City. Beckie, 24, joined the English club last August on a one-year deal from ...
Apr 12, 2019
Feds win 'interim interim' stay for 15-day cap on solitary confinement
TORONTO - The federal government won't have to comply immediately with a court decision that limited solitary confinement to 15 consecutive days, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided. In granting O...
Apr 12, 2019
Conditional sentence for man who grabbed woman's breast and told her "shhhh"
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 47-year old man who pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault, after grabbing and holding onto a woman's breast during a business transaction, has been handed a 9-month conditio...
Apr 12, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse
Venezuela's ex-spy chief arrested in Madrid on US warrant
MADRID - Venezuela's longtime spy chief was arrested Friday in Madrid by Spanish police acting on a United States warrant for allegedly trafficking tons of cocaine. Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, who for mo...
Apr 12, 2019
Lethbridge Police charge local man with drug trafficking offences
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have charged a 48-year-old man with drug trafficking offences after a recent vehicle stop.According to police, at 8 p.m. on April 5 a member of the Downtown Policing...
Apr 12, 2019
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime gets Monte Carlo wild card
MONTE CARLO - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime has been given a wild card into the Monte-Carlo Masters next week. The 18-year-old from Montreal is ranked 33rd in the world after a strong start to 2019, ...
Apr 12, 2019
Goodale says report on terror threats 'maligned' certain communities
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says future reports on terrorist threats to Canada will not refer to Sikh extremism and instead use "extremists who support violent means to establis...
Apr 12, 2019