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Memorials show California community's grief over boat fire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Just hours after a fire raced through a scuba diving boat, a memorial started sprouting up to commemorate the lives of 34 people who died trapped below decks. Days later, it ha...
Sep 04, 2019
Emotional presentations at first Lethbridge Supervised Consumption Site Review meeting
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Hundreds of people came to the Coast Hotel in Lethbridge, to listen, find out more information, or to have their say on the city's Supervised Consumption Site.About 200 people turned ...
Sep 04, 2019 A seven-member panel listened to residents' concerns and experiences with the SCS
Canada's Bianca Andreescu reaches U.S. Open quarter-finals
NEW YORK - As she has done for most of the 2019 tennis season, Bianca Andreescu kept winning Monday night at the U.S. Open. Make that early Tuesday morning, when the 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont....
Sep 04, 2019
Shattering Taliban attack in Kabul even as US deal nears
KABUL - The Taliban on Tuesday defended their suicide bombing against an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 people and wounded 119, almost all local civilians, just h...
Sep 04, 2019
China says trade talks with US to take place in October
BEIJING - U.S. and Chinese envoys will meet in early October for talks aimed at ending a tariff war, later than initially planned, China's Commerce Ministry announced Thursday. The announcement came a...
Sep 04, 2019
NHLPA executive board meets, still deliberating on CBA
NHL players have yet to decide whether to terminate the current collective bargaining agreement with less than two weeks before the deadline to do so. Roughly 50 players met Wednesday night in Chicago...
Sep 04, 2019
Administration switches off rule for thriftier light bulbs
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration turned its deregulatory focus Wednesday to light bulbs, scrapping a rule that would have phased out less energy efficient incandescent bulbs. The move slows a yea...
Sep 04, 2019
Judge orders Anheuser-Busch to halt 'corn syrup' labels
Big beer is still duking it out over corn syrup. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Anheuser-Busch to stop using Bud Light packaging that implies rival brews made by MillerCoors contain corn syrup. ...
Sep 04, 2019
NTSB: Autopilot flaw, driver inattention caused Tesla crash
DETROIT - A design flaw in Tesla's Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system and driver inattention combined to cause a Model S electric car to slam into a firetruck parked along a California freeway, ...
Sep 04, 2019
Rebecca Lee-Bentham to play against men in Mackenzie Tour event in Montreal
Coming off a three-year break from elite competition, Rebecca Lee-Bentham is finding ways to keep golf interesting. She'll be the only woman in the field when the Mackenzie Investments Open tees ...
Sep 04, 2019