Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW HARMONY, Utah - A Utah sheriff’s deputy said Tuesday he was desperate and numb from the cold as he punched and stomped his way into a frozen pond on Christmas Day to pull out an 8-year-old b...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Goaltender Carter Hart had no idea where the puck was as it rolled behind him toward Canada’s net. Defenceman Cal Foote spotted it though and dove behind his goalie, swatting the...

NEW YORK - In a story Dec. 26 on cities suing the Department of Defence, The Associated Press reported that 26 people were killed inside a Texas church last month. The story should have made clear tha...

OMAHA, Neb. - A judge has dismissed a burglary charge against a bounty hunter who broke into and searched an Omaha family’s home before realizing he was in the wrong house. Douglas County Distri...

SEATTLE - Authorities say a wrapped present that turned out to be a fruitcake temporarily halted service at a Seattle ferry terminal while police investigated. Washington State Patrol Trooper Kevin Fo...

BOISE, Idaho - A federal appeals court has dismissed an effort to allow the sterilization of a herd of wild horses in Idaho. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month granted a request ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars fro...

LIMA, Peru - Former President Alberto Fujimori apologized to Peruvians on Tuesday for the wrongs committed under his government in the 1990s, issuing a vaguely worded statement two days after he recei...

NEW YORK - Two tech entrepreneurs, including a man who invested in the film studio that made the “Twilight” movies, were convicted of fraud on Tuesday in New York. A federal jury convicted...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Authorities in Brazil say they are stripping Venezuela’s top diplomat of his credentials and kicking him out in a dispute between the neighbouring South American countries. Br...