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Montreal group would be happy to split Rays home games between two cities
MONTREAL - The man at the helm of a group trying to bring Major League Baseball back to Montreal says a plan for the Tampa Bay Rays to split games between Quebec's biggest city and Florida is "groundb...
Jun 26, 2019
Goalie Roberto Luongo retires after 19 NHL seasons
SUNRISE, Fla. - Florida goalie Roberto Luongo has decided to retire after 19 seasons. The 40-year-old Luongo made the announcement Wednesday on his Twitter account. His 489 career victories are third ...
Jun 26, 2019
Alleged sex tape in R. Kelly case turned over to defence
CHICAGO - Prosecutors have turned over to R. Kelly's attorneys a tape they say shows the singer having sex with a minor girl two decades ago. The judge in the case said he hopes that at least one of t...
Jun 26, 2019
With a third of 2015 MPs not running, NDP turnover highest in at least 20 years
OTTAWA - When the federal election campaign gets underway in earnest, parties will be missing dozens of incumbent MPs who have opted against running again - including 11 sitting NDP MPs...
Jun 26, 2019
City reports large increase in amount of recyclable material collected with curbside recycling program
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The city-wide blue bin recycling program is less than a couple of months old but has already collected more than 562,000 kg of recycling material.And since it began, City of Lethbridg...
Jun 26, 2019 Blue Bins (Lethbridge News NOW)
Aviation experts question security, passenger safety after woman left on plane
Aviation experts are raising security and passenger safety concerns after a woman was left sleeping on a parked Air Canada aircraft with the lights turned off and crew gone. "It was just a total ...
Jun 26, 2019
Court ruling reveals grim details of Lionel Desmond suicide and murders
HALIFAX - A court fight over life insurance has revealed for the first time disturbing details about how former Canadian soldier Lionel Desmond fatally shot his mother, wife a...
Jun 26, 2019
Building explosion in Austrian capital leaves 12 injured
VIENNA - A suspected gas explosion blew a gaping hole in a building in central Vienna on Wednesday, injuring at least 12 people, two of them seriously, according to police and images from the scene. T...
Jun 26, 2019
Monroe statue theft suspect previously took axe to Trump star
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors say the man suspected of stealing a statue of Marilyn Monroe from atop a Hollywood public art installation is the same person who smashed President Trump's Walk of Fame star ...
Jun 26, 2019
Liberals promise $13M for missing, murdered Indigenous women commemorations
OTTAWA - The federal government will fund more than 100 projects to "honour the lives and legacies" of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef announced...
Jun 26, 2019