Category Archives: Canadian Press
Woman gets prison for using someone else's tainted urine
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio - An Ohio woman might want to ask some questions if she tries to borrow someone’s urine again to pass a drug test. WTOV-TV reports 24-year-old Kiana Wallace was sentenced t...
Apr 24, 2018
Mississippi defendants spend months in jail awaiting trial
BRANDON, Miss. - Jerry Sanders has been sitting in a jail cell on a relatively minor charge of methamphetamine possession for more than a year - longer than the sentence he could get if he’s con...
Apr 24, 2018
Ahead of summits, US tones down war games with S. Korea
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Spring on the Korean Peninsula is normally the season of D-Day-style beach landings with big guns thumping in the distance and skies crisscrossed by the contrails of fighte...
Apr 24, 2018
Trump's tariffs risk jobs and profits in working-class areas
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s escalating dispute with China over trade and technology is threatening jobs and profits in working-class communities where his “America First” a...
Apr 24, 2018
Mysterious mummy found in Iran could be father of last shah
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Construction workers in Iran may have unearthed the mummified remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the father of the country’s last monarch, nearly four decades after the ...
Apr 24, 2018
Prosecutors mull retrial for Border Patrol agent
PHOENIX - Prosecutors are evaluating whether to pursue a retrial for a U.S. Border Patrol agent on manslaughter charges after an Arizona jury deadlocked on the lesser counts. A mistrial was declared M...
Apr 24, 2018
Attorney: California police shot unarmed black man 10 times
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the family of an unarmed black man killed by police in a busy Southern California parking lot said Monday that an autopsy found he was shot 10 times and died from choking on ...
Apr 24, 2018
Bangladesh marks 5 years after garment factory collapse
DHAMRAI, Bangladesh - A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesda...
Apr 24, 2018
Afghan officials: Taliban attacks kill 11 troops, policemen
KABUL - A new wave of Taliban attacks across Afghanistan killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers and policemen on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a particularly deadly week of assaults by militants....
Apr 24, 2018
For the first time, Facebook spells out what it forbids
NEW YORK - If you’ve ever wondered exactly what sorts of things Facebook would like you not to do on its service, you’re in luck. For the first time, the social network is publishing detai...
Apr 24, 2018