Category Archives: Canadian Press
Humpback whale tangled in fishing gear for days is freed
BOSTON - A young humpback whale that was tangled up in fishing gear off Boston for several days has been freed. The Center for Coastal Studies says its Marine Animal Entanglement Response team freed t...
Dec 12, 2016
Clarification: Pennsylvania Congressman Indicted story
PHILADELPHIA - In a story Dec. 12 about the sentencing of former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, The Associated Press reported that Fattah took a $1 million loan in 2007 from Sallie Mae’s chairman. The ...
Dec 12, 2016
Prosecutors give timeline of accused church shooter actions
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Through a dozen witnesses on Tuesday, federal prosecutors reconstructed the activities of Dylann Roof in the months leading up to night he went to a black Charleston church and shot...
Dec 12, 2016
4 churches drop lawsuit challenging state's transgender law
BOSTON - Four churches have withdrawn a federal lawsuit that claimed a state law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in public restrooms violated their constitutional right to religi...
Dec 12, 2016
Former head of officers' group gets prison term for fraud
ST. LOUIS - A former St. Louis police sergeant was ordered Monday to spend a year and a day in federal prison for stealing more than $80,000 from the organization for black police officers that he onc...
Dec 12, 2016
Site C dam project forces expropriation of B.C. farm family this spring
VICTORIA - A farmer in northeast British Columbia is still hopeful that he’ll get to stay in his home, despite an announcement by BC Hydro that the company plans to seize the property to make wa...
Dec 12, 2016
Plans for $750 million theme park in north Georgia 'on hold'
EMERSON, Ga. - Almost a year after a groundbreaking that never happened, Avatron Smart Park, a $750-million technology-centred theme park planned to be built in Emerson announced Monday that it is shu...
Dec 12, 2016
Sudden spike in prison violence 'a problem right across the country'
HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, i...
Dec 12, 2016
Canadian international Kadeisha Buchanan earns another soccer award
TORONTO - Canadian international defender Kadeisha Buchanan, who led West Virginia to the NCAA women’s soccer tournament final, has been named the TopDrawerSoccer.com Player of the Year. A nativ...
Dec 12, 2016
Italy's new government looks much like just-ended one
ROME - Italy’s latest government was formed and rapidly sworn in Monday, a centre-left coalition headed by new Premier Paolo Gentiloni and strikingly similar in makeup to the just-ended one that...
Dec 12, 2016