Category Archives: Canadian Press

TV stars and coaches charged in college bribery scheme
BOSTON - Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged along with nearly 50 other people Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents bribed college coaches and other insiders to get...
Mar 12, 2019

Smollett team: Court cameras would show state's flimsy case
CHICAGO - A lawyer for Jussie Smollett said Tuesday that she would welcome cameras in the courtroom during the “Empire” actor’s trial on charges accusing him of lying to police, sayi...
Mar 12, 2019

Woman picks matching numbers 30 times to win lottery game
RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia woman parlayed a feeling to purchase 30 lottery tickets with the same numbers to win $150,000. Deborah Brown says she purchased 20 Pick 4 tickets with the numbers 1-0-3-1 af...
Mar 12, 2019

Canadian women's baseball team stars Kate Psota, Ashley Stephenson retire
OTTAWA - Longtime Canadian national women’s baseball team members Kate Psota and Ashley Stephenson are retiring as players. The 32-year-old Psota, of Burlington, Ont., and 36-year-old Stephenson...
Mar 12, 2019

Sunwing temporarily grounds Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft for 'commercial reasons'
MONTREAL - Sunwing Airlines is temporarily grounding its four Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the wake of the Ethiopian plane crash that killed all 157 people on board. The Canadian low-cost airline says...
Mar 12, 2019
Kellogg Foundation grant to boost Motown Museum programs
DETROIT - The Motown Museum is using a $1.5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to boost community programming in concert with its planned expansion. The Detroit-based museum and Battle Cre...
Mar 12, 2019

New York, feds join to get 100K rape kits tested around US
NEW YORK - Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000...
Mar 12, 2019

Alphonso Davies returns to Vancouver for CONCACAF Nations League qualifying game
In his return to Vancouver, Bayern Munich teenager Alphonso Davies will look to help complete Canada’s perfect CONCACAF Nations League qualifying run against French Guiana on March 24 at BC Plac...
Mar 12, 2019

Baby travelling to see grandfather, teacher among Canadian victims in Ethiopian crash
A high school teacher with a passion for helping the vulnerable and an infant en route to meet her grandfather in Kenya for the first time were the latest Canadians confirmed as victims of a devastati...
Mar 12, 2019
The Latest: Travel hub UAE suspends Boeing 737 Max 8, 9 jets
HEJERE, Ethiopia - The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 4:40 a.m. The United Arab Emirates, a key international travel hub, has barred the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 from its airspace...
Mar 12, 2019