Category Archives: Canadian Press
A cougar in your luggage? Hunting carcass found at airport
LAS VEGAS - Police say a hunter’s trip home hit a snag in Las Vegas after security screeners found a dead cougar in his luggage. No crime was committed because the man had a hunting tag. But pol...
Dec 27, 2017
Contest uncovers lobsters with extra claws, blue shells, dog-sized girth
HALIFAX - An unusual contest has uncovered dozens of bizarre lobsters found in the waters of Canada’s East Coast - including blue ones, three-clawed ones, and even one as big as a beagle. Fisher...
Dec 27, 2017
Hey Baby! Canada routs Slovakia 6-0, but may change goal celebration music
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Sometime during Canada’s 6-0 rout of Slovakia Jordan Kyrou realized that he and his teammates had made a mistake. They had picked the wrong song to celebrate goals to at the worl...
Dec 27, 2017
2018 World Cup chief Mutko quits; still involved in planning
MOSCOW - Vitaly Mutko bowed to mounting pressure and stepped down as chairman of the 2018 World Cup organizing committee on Wednesday after being dogged by investigations that highlighted his role in ...
Dec 27, 2017
Handmade Polish folk costumes stolen from car in Chicago
CHICAGO - A Chicago woman is desperately searching for five hand-sewn Polish folk costumes that were stolen from her car last weekend. Marlena Dzis spent most of Christmas Day poring through alley tra...
Dec 27, 2017
'No longer with us:' Disabled passenger dies after Saskatchewan plane crash
FOND DU LAC, Sask. - A disabled man injured in a plane crash in northern Saskatchewan has died in hospital. The family of Arson Fern Jr. announced his death on a Gofundme page set up after the Dec. 13...
Dec 27, 2017
Operating room doctors lament attacks on personalized cloth caps
Retired anesthetist Dr. Glenn Gibson believes he was an early trendsetter in slipping on brightly coloured cloth caps before heading into the operating room. So he was a bit disappointed when some hos...
Dec 27, 2017
Golfer Brooke Henderson wins Rosenfeld Award as CP female athlete of the year
TORONTO - Canadian golfer Brooke Henderson is barely out of her teens and her list of accomplishments on the LPGA Tour is already a long one. She won her first LPGA Tour event in 2015, added her first...
Dec 27, 2017
Liberia commission still tallying votes for runoff election
MONROVIA, Liberia - Liberia’s National Elections Commission continued tallying votes Wednesday from the West African nation’s presidential runoff election between a football star and the v...
Dec 27, 2017
Sheriff: Deputies threatened before gunfire that killed boy
SCHERTZ, Texas - A Texas sheriff says a wanted felon told deputies that she was armed and would shoot them before they killed her in a spray of gunfire that also left a 6-year-old boy dead. Bexar Coun...
Dec 27, 2017