Category Archives: Canadian Press

BANNING, Calif. - A wildfire that tore through brush east of Los Angeles forced 700 people from their homes for several hours Tuesday and destroyed a small building, officials said. The fast-moving fi...

ATLANTA - Singer Gladys Knight is suing to remove her name from the Atlanta restaurants owned by her son, who is charged with stealing $650,000 in taxes owed to the state of Georgia. The federal lawsu...

SPARKS, Nev. - A small plane that crashed into a northern Nevada recreational vehicle park, killing both people on board, plunged nose-first close to occupied RVs - and no one on the ground was hurt, ...

NEW YORK - Five kayakers were injured Tuesday when they were struck by a ferry departing a Manhattan pier and tossed into the Hudson River, police said. It happened just before 6 p.m. near Pier 79 as ...

HALIFAX - The provincial NDP in Nova Scotia has handily won a byelection in one of its Halifax strongholds in what one pollster says is an early test of the party’s leftward shift. Unofficial re...

PHOENIX - Seeking to end confusion over his aggressive but recently muddled language on immigration, Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to remove millions of people living in the country illegally if he bec...

BALTIMORE - Matt Wieters hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Jason Grilli in the eighth inning to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 5-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. The Orioles pul...

HILO, Hawaii - Merchants boarded up shop windows Wednesday along Hilo Bay, and shoppers snatched supplies of food and water from grocery store shelves as what could be the first hurricane to hit Hawai...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Latest on Florida’s primary (all times local): 9:15 p.m. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has turned back a strong primary challenge and will likely be re-elected to a ...

NEW YORK - A Brooklyn woman who tossed hundreds of live crickets and worms on a crowded subway train last week as part of a video prank was arrested Tuesday. Zaida Pugh, 21, of Brooklyn, was arrested ...