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Canadian Museum for Human Rights deep in the red: Winnipeg Free Press
WINNIPEG - The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg had an almost $7-million deficit at the end of the last fiscal year and wants a new funding deal with the federal government. The deficit is...
Oct 11, 2016
Utley lifts Dodgers to 6-5 win over Nats to force Game 5
LOS ANGELES - Clayton Kershaw was out of the game, his head down in the dugout, the Los Angeles bullpen faltering and the season slipping away. Chase Utley plucked the Dodgers from the brink, singling...
Oct 11, 2016
Tebow aids ill fan after 1st Arizona Fall League game
Tim Tebow comforted a fan who was having a seizure, praying and talking college football with the man after the former NFL quarterback played his first baseball game in the Arizona Fall League. “...
Oct 11, 2016
Oil and gas downturns in B.C. and Alberta ease Site C labour force concerns
VICTORIA - Alberta’s loss is British Columbia’s gain as fears of labour shortages for the construction of the massive Site C dam evaporate amid a slump in the oil and gas industry, says a ...
Oct 11, 2016
RCMP officer shot, injured following traffic stop near Golden, B.C.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Police say a Mountie has been shot and injured while trying to stop a vehicle near the community of Golden, in southeastern British Columbia. RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Rob Vermeulen s...
Oct 11, 2016
Mistrial exposes prosecutors' challenges in trying police
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The hung jury in the murder trial against two former Albuquerque police officers underscores the difficulty prosecutors often face in landing convictions against law enforcement in...
Oct 11, 2016
Average of 4.73 million watch Game 3 of American League Division Series
TORONTO - An average of 4.73 million viewers watched Sunday’s pivotal Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers. Rogers Sportsnet, the officia...
Oct 11, 2016
Womam charge in ex-NY governor extortion plot held on bail
NEW YORK - A young Russian woman who put Eliot Spitzer back in the tabloid headlines last winter when she told doctors he had choked her at a Manhattan hotel was charged Tuesday with extorting nearly ...
Oct 11, 2016
'Stayin' Alive' disco beat helps save subway worker's life
NEW YORK - A subway worker has survived an electrocution on the third rail thanks to a co-worker performing CPR to the beat of the 1977 Bee Gees disco hit “Stayin’ Alive.” Monique Br...
Oct 11, 2016
Source: Player convicted of raping teammate set for release
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee high school basketball player convicted of aggravated rape of a freshman teammate will be released from custody next month, a person familiar with the case said Tues...
Oct 11, 2016