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LINTON, Ind. - A Purdue University entomology professor has returned a copy of “The Moths of the Limberlost” that he checked out 60 years ago at age 8. WTWO-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, rep...

STONEWALL, Man. - Former television game show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is providing $50,000 to a Manitoba couple who want to build the province’s first black bear cub rehabilit...

TORONTO - Bottled water companies in Ontario may soon have to pay more and take less water as public outcry over revelations that the province charges them just $3.71 for every million litres triggere...

PORTLAND, Maine - President Barack Obama on Wednesday created a new national monument in Maine on 87,000 acres donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, fulfilling conservationist Roxanne Quimby...

HALIFAX - Two investigations have been launched into the collapse of an 80-metre wind turbine in Cape Breton, believed to be the first catastrophic failure of its kind in Canada. Montreal-based Enerco...

WASHINGTON - US homebuyers pulled back in July, as sales declined amid by a shortage of available properties and steadily rising prices. Sales of existing homes fell 3.2 per cent last month to a seaso...

AMATRICE, Italy - The Latest on the earthquake in central Italy (all times local): 2:30 a.m. New York City’s World Trade Center is honouring the victims of the earthquake in Italy. Gov. Andrew C...

NEW YORK - U.S. swimmer James Feigen apologized for the “serious distraction” he and three teammates caused at a gas station during the Rio Olympics, saying he omitted facts in his stateme...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Police in New Brunswick are investigating a pair of unusual, random attacks in Saint John that left two people with minor injuries. The Saint John Police Force says a man entered a ...

BERLIN - Walter Scheel, who helped shape West Germany’s policy of reconciliation with the communist bloc as foreign minister and later served as his country’s president, has died. He was 9...