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Fleet of youth, speed and skill coming to the Maple Leafs this season
TORONTO - Just over two months after Brendan Shanahan was hired to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs, the club used its top draft pick on small but skilled Swedish teenager William Nylander. The selection ...
Oct 11, 2016
Women seeking self-defence lessons after attack
LETHBRIDGE — It appears more people want to learn to defend themselves, in the wake of an attack on a 25-year-old Lethbridge woman. Dan Walton of Savoy Six Advisor Group says more than 30 women ...
Oct 11, 2016
Militant attack on Shiite shrine in Afghan capital kills 14
KABUL - At least 14 people were killed in a militant attack on a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, an official said. Another 26 people were wounded in the attack on Sakhi Shrine ...
Oct 11, 2016
Obama pushes US goal to send humans to Mars by 2030s
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to reinvigorate his six-year-old call for the U.S. to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, a mission NASA has been slowly and quietly trudging away at. ...
Oct 11, 2016
Consumer watchdog structure ruled unconstitutional
WASHINGTON - The U.S. consumer watchdog agency, enmeshed in partisan politics since its creation after the financial crisis, now has had its structure ruled unconstitutional because it gives too much ...
Oct 11, 2016
Legal pot could upend years of drug smuggling in Arizona
NOGALES, Ariz. - The hills on the Arizona border with Mexico are steep and bumpy as Paul Estrada drives along the fence, patrolling for drug and human smugglers. Passing traffic signs pocked with bull...
Oct 11, 2016
Year-over-year new home construction continues to lag behind last year
LETHBRIDGE – A slight increase in multi-family home starts last month helped bump up new home starts for September in Lethbridge. However, the year-to-date numbers paint a picture of continued n...
Oct 11, 2016
Pens' Crosby out with concussion; no timetable for return
Sidney Crosby collided with a Pittsburgh Penguins teammate last Friday at practice and thought nothing of it. Just one of those things. When the two-time MVP woke up Saturday, though, the headache he ...
Oct 11, 2016
Suspect facing mischief charge after man attempts to scale fence at N.L. prison
STEPHENVILLE, N.L. - Police in Newfoundland say it’s a first: instead of busting a guy trying to break out of prison, they’ve arrested a man for apparently trying to break in. Bay St. Geor...
Oct 11, 2016
Nova Scotia hockey player seriously injured after on-ice incident
TRENTON, N.S. - Police in Nova Scotia are investigating after a hockey player was seriously injured during an on-ice incident. New Glasgow police spokesman Const. Ken MacDonald says the encounter betw...
Oct 11, 2016