Category Archives: Canadian Press
Maple Leafs hire a second assistant GM, adding Laurence Gilman from NHL office
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t wasted any time filling their executive offices. For the second time in as many days, the Leafs added an assistant general manager on Thursday, hiring L...
May 24, 2018
Reality TV star pleads guilty in Coast Guardsman's death
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A former reality TV star has pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. Coast Guard technician in a drunken wrong-way collision on a Virginia highway. The Virginian-Pilot reports 25-year-o...
May 24, 2018
Putin meets Macron, says North Korea summit end regrettable
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, said Thursday that North Korea fulfilled its promises ahead of the cancelled summit between ...
May 24, 2018
Report: Airstrikes on Syria pro-government positions kill 12
BEIRUT - Airstrikes overnight in eastern Syria killed at least 12 pro-government fighters, all reportedly foreign nationals, a war-monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian government-run media blame...
May 24, 2018
Iraq says suicide bomber kills 7 in northern Baghdad park
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up late Wednesday at a crowded park in Iraq’s capital, killing at least seven people in the first such attack in Baghdad since the start a week ago of the...
May 24, 2018
Texas shooting survivors seek purpose in shadow of Parkland
SANTA FE, Texas - She had seen the memorials on television, the familiar white crosses erected after each massacre, and now there were 10 of them lined up on her high school’s lawn. Kyleigh Elgi...
May 24, 2018
California court: Defendants get crack at some social media
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and other social media companies can be compelled to give criminal defendants preparing for trial user content that is already public, California’s highest court ruled T...
May 24, 2018
Disputed pipeline backed by Trump is focus of court hearing
BILLINGS, Mont. - Trump administration attorneys were due in a Montana courtroom Thursday to defend the disputed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline against environmental groups and Native American groups ...
May 24, 2018
Clinton 'wants to be helpful' to Democrats. Can she?
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Hillary Clinton is not going away. Standing on a convention stage Wednesday, the former Democratic presidential candidate cheered a primary election candidate from Georgia and endors...
May 24, 2018
Space station accepts special delivery from Virginia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The International Space Station accepted delivery Thursday of more than 7,000 pounds of supplies from Virginia. A commercial cargo ship arrived at the orbiting lab three days af...
May 24, 2018