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Europe's match-fixing problem highlighted by players' survey
LONDON - European soccer’s challenge in eradicating match-fixing has been highlighted by a large number of players in Cyprus and Malta telling the world players’ union that they have been ...
Nov 28, 2016
Nevada homicide suspect who broke cuffs named in more cases
LAS VEGAS - A homicide suspect who broke his handcuffs and escaped from a Las Vegas-area police station in September has been charged with a second killing, and police have identified him as the lone ...
Nov 28, 2016
San Francisco's sinking tower seen from space
SAN FRANCISCO - The European Space Agency has released satellite data that shows the 58-story Millennium Tower in San Francisco’s is continuing to sink at a steady rate - and perhaps faster than...
Nov 28, 2016
Lethbridge man pleads guilty to manslaughter
LETHBRIDGE – It was a tearful afternoon (Nov. 28) in Court of Queen’s Bench, as Randall William Enright entered a plea of guilty to manslaughter. The plea comes more than a year after 29-y...
Nov 28, 2016
Bay Area homicide being investigated as possible hate crime
SAN FRANCISCO - Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are investigating the slaying of a young black man as a possible hate crime amid growing concern over racially motivated incidents and attacks...
Nov 28, 2016
Orders could have little effect on pipeline protest camp
BISMARCK, N.D. - Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for...
Nov 28, 2016
Some blacks applaud Castro legacy of racial equality
DETROIT - The Fidel Castro that Sam Riddle and many other African-Americans admired was not the revolutionary dictator who plunged Cuba into economic ruin and held the island nation in an iron grip. T...
Nov 28, 2016
First commercial US-Havana flight lands in ramped-up travel
HAVANA - Just three days after the death of Fidel Castro, the first scheduled commercial flight from the U.S. to Havana in more than 50 years landed Monday to the applause of passengers and a water-sp...
Nov 28, 2016
Redblacks' 39-33 overtime Grey Cup win attracts 10 million viewers
TORONTO - The Ottawa Redblacks 39-33 overtime victory over the Calgary Stampeders in the 104th Grey Cup on Sunday drew 10 million unique viewers, according to TSN. The network stated in a release that...
Nov 28, 2016
Murder charge dismissed against 1 of 2 Albuquerque officers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A special prosecutor dismissed a second-degree murder charge Monday against one of two former Albuquerque police officers charged in the shooting death of a homeless man that was c...
Nov 28, 2016