Category Archives: Canadian Press
Spring storm wallops Atlantic Canada with heavy snowfall, gusty winds
HALIFAX - A spring storm has closed schools and delayed business openings in parts of Atlantic Canada. Western Newfoundland and Labrador were getting heavy snowfall, along with winds expected to gust ...
Apr 09, 2018

Fox News host: Graphic posted at wrong point of show
NEW YORK - A Fox News host says that a graphic showing the station lagging other cable news networks in trustworthiness was taken down because it was posted at the wrong time. “Media Buzz”...
Apr 09, 2018

Accused killer found Johnston kissing another man, Halifax jury told
HALIFAX - A witness testified Monday that he was becoming intimate with Montreal-born yoga instructor Kristin Johnston when Nicholas Butcher unexpectedly came into the bedroom, hours before he alleged...
Apr 09, 2018

Speaker of New Brunswick legislature to fight 'baseless' harassment allegation
FREDERICTON - The Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature plans to fight allegations of harassment “tooth and nail,” his lawyer said Monday. T.J. Burke says Chris Collins is devastated th...
Apr 09, 2018

Lawyer tells Australian court Geoffrey Rush barely eating
SYDNEY, Australia - Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush has become virtually housebound, barely eats and wakes each morning with a “terrible sense of dread” since a Sydney newspaper alleged ...
Apr 09, 2018

US official says North Korean leader ready to discuss nukes
WASHINGTON - North Korea’s government has communicated with the United States to say that leader Kim Jong Un is ready to discuss his nuclear weapons program with President Donald Trump, official...
Apr 09, 2018

3 still in critical condition after German van rampage
BERLIN - Three people remain in critical condition after the deadly van rampage in the western German city of Muenster, a hospital official said Monday. A 48-year-old German killed two people and inju...
Apr 09, 2018

Strong quake cracks streets in western Japan, injuring 5
TOKYO - A strong earthquake hit western Japan early Monday, cracking streets, cutting water and power to a number of homes and injuring five people. The Meteorological Agency said the magnitude 6.1 qu...
Apr 09, 2018
NY high school students injured when bus strikes overpass
LAKEVIEW, N.Y. - A charter bus carrying teenagers returning from a spring break trip Sunday night struck a bridge overpass on Long Island, seriously injuring six passengers and mangling the entire len...
Apr 09, 2018

Tensions rachet up as Israel blamed for Syria missile strike
BEIRUT - A suspected poison gas attack in a Syrian rebel-held town and airstrikes on a Syrian air base that Damascus and Moscow blamed on U.S. ally Israel escalated tensions in the already volatile Mi...
Apr 09, 2018