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Taber RCMP Need Help to Find Missing Man
TABER – Taber RCMP are asking for your help to locate 25-year old Johnny Dyck Klassen. He was last seen around 8 p.m. on Sunday, August 21. He had left his home and was just north of the interse...
Aug 30, 2016

Historic commercial flight from US lands in Cuba
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular a...
Aug 30, 2016

China gives Canada reprieve in canola dispute by extending deadline
BEIJING - China says it will lift a fast-approaching deadline to introduce rule changes on Canadian canola shipments that threatened to inflict damage on the multibillion-dollar sector. Starting Thurs...
Aug 30, 2016
Jays catcher Josh Thole elects free agency after being designated for assignment
Toronto Blue Jays catcher Josh Thole elected free agency on Tuesday night after clearing waivers. The 29-year-old was designated for assignment by Toronto on Monday to make room for catcher Dioner Nav...
Aug 30, 2016
Canadian National Exhibition shuts down early due to fights, overcrowding
TORONTO - The Canadian National Exhibition shut down a few hours earlier than planned on Tuesday night due to overcrowding and fighting inside the fairgrounds. The CNE said on its website that it was ...
Aug 30, 2016
Wildfire prompts evacuations of 200 homes in California
BANNING, Calif. - A wildfire that tore through brush east of Los Angeles forced 700 people from their homes for several hours Tuesday and destroyed a small building, officials said. The fast-moving fi...
Aug 30, 2016
Gladys Knight sues to remove her name from son's restaurants
ATLANTA - Singer Gladys Knight is suing to remove her name from the Atlanta restaurants owned by her son, who is charged with stealing $650,000 in taxes owed to the state of Georgia. The federal lawsu...
Aug 30, 2016

2 dead in plane crash at Nevada RV park near airport
SPARKS, Nev. - A small plane that crashed into a northern Nevada recreational vehicle park, killing both people on board, plunged nose-first close to occupied RVs - and no one on the ground was hurt, ...
Aug 30, 2016
Police: 5 injured when ferry hits kayakers on Hudson River
NEW YORK - Five kayakers were injured Tuesday when they were struck by a ferry departing a Manhattan pier and tossed into the Hudson River, police said. It happened just before 6 p.m. near Pier 79 as ...
Aug 30, 2016
NDP handily wins Nova Scotia byelection race in Halifax party stronghold
HALIFAX - The provincial NDP in Nova Scotia has handily won a byelection in one of its Halifax strongholds in what one pollster says is an early test of the party’s leftward shift. Unofficial re...
Aug 30, 2016