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Edmonton Eskimos sign Canadian kicker Hugh O'Neill to contract extension
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos re-signed Canadian kicker/punter Hugh O’Neill on Thursday to a contract extension through the 2020 season. O’Neill appeared in all 18 regular-season games w...
Jan 17, 2019
Alberta crude oil curtailments remain unchanged despite price recovery
CALGARY - Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd says the province is leaving its oil curtailment levels at 325,000 barrels per day for now despite discounts for western Canadian crude that have na...
Jan 17, 2019
The Most Dangerous Festival In The World: Onbashira
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Once every six years, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region to chop, ride, and raise massive 50-foot logs during Japan's Onbashira Festival-an anci...
Jan 17, 2019
Court Fools And Jesters Were Actually Very Intelligent
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Kings and Queens of history have been a confusing bunch, haven't they? They've been respectable, knowledgeable, worthy leaders, and they've been shocki...
Jan 17, 2019
Germany: Love Parade trial headed for inconclusive end
BERLIN - The trial of 10 people in Germany over a deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010 appears likely to be closed without a formal verdict. Four event organizers and six...
Jan 17, 2019
Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign OL Stanley Bryant to one-year extension
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers re-signed offensive lineman Stanley Bryant to a one-year contract extension Thursday. Bryant was named the CFL’s top lineman for a second straight season in ...
Jan 17, 2019
Gladys Knight to sing national anthem at the Super Bowl
NEW YORK - Gladys Knight will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at this year’s Super Bowl. The seven-time Grammy Award-winner says she’s proud to use her voice to “unite an...
Jan 17, 2019
Number of federal workers seeking US jobless aid doubles
WASHINGTON - The number of furloughed federal employees seeking unemployment benefits jumped in the first two weeks of the shutdown, topping 10,000 during the week of Jan. 5. The Labor Department said...
Jan 17, 2019
Watchdog: Thousands more children may have been separated
WASHINGTON - Thousands more migrant children may have been split from their families than the Trump administration previously reported, in part because officials were stepping up family separations lo...
Jan 17, 2019
Supreme Court rejects Calgary man's appeal in neighbour's fatal stabbing
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a man who argued he was fending off an attempted sexual assault when he stabbed his new neighbour 37 times. Nicholas Rasberry of Calgary was sen...
Jan 17, 2019