Category Archives: Canadian Press

Baylor's title win caps exciting women's basketball season
TAMPA, Fla. - Baylor and Notre Dame capped the women’s college basketball season with a thrilling championship game. The sport now has had a different champion in the past four years, with the L...
Apr 08, 2019
Teens charged with arson that destroyed historic theatre
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Two Connecticut teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed the historic American Shakespeare Theatre, where Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Plummer, James...
Apr 08, 2019
Fans of 'Queer Eye' show raise $90,000 for Kansas woman
LAWRENCE, Kan. - A woman whose experience of being kicked out of her home as a 16-year-old because she’s a lesbian was highlighted on the Netflix show “Queer Eye” has a fresh shot at...
Apr 08, 2019

Raptors' Siakam makes his case as NBA's most improved player
Pascal Siakam confidently launches shots he may not have dared attempt in previous seasons. He makes plays during times of the game when he would have been sitting on the bench. The Toronto Raptors fo...
Apr 08, 2019

UN warns peacekeeping in Mali will be hurt if Canada doesn't extend mission
OTTAWA - Marking the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, a Liberal MP has called his government out for not doing more on peacekeeping as the United Nations is warning it will be forced to cur...
Apr 08, 2019

Faith Goldy, five others, banned from Facebook and Instagram over hate
OTTAWA - Six Canadian people and groups involved in “organized hate” have been banned from having any further presence on Facebook and Instagram. Those banned include one-time Toronto mayo...
Apr 08, 2019
Thieves keep stealing wheels from city's police cars
JACKSON, Miss. - Somebody slowed the police’s roll: Thieves keep stealing the wheels off of the patrol cars in Mississippi’s capital city. Jackson police spokesman Sgt. Roderick Holmes tel...
Apr 08, 2019

Montreal businessman Clifford Starke to issue "intent to purchase" Alouettes
TIORONTO, Ont. - Montreal businessman Clifford Starke will formally announce Thursday his “intent to purchase” the Montreal Alouettes. Brad Smith, a former CFL receiver with the Toronto Ar...
Apr 08, 2019
Court: Kansas must pay legal fees over 'In Cold Blood' notes
WICHITA, Kan. - Kansas must pay legal fees arising from its efforts to stop publication of notebooks kept by the lead investigator into the murders of a Kansas family chronicled in Truman Capote’...
Apr 08, 2019
Toronto's Nickeil Alexander-Walker entering NBA draft
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker is the latest Canadian to declare he is entering the NBA draft. The Toronto native tweeted on Sunday night he will sign with an agent and...
Apr 08, 2019