Category Archives: Canadian Press

WILMINGTON, N.C. - A man convicted of murder as a teenager and imprisoned 28 years ago is luxuriating by sleeping on his cousin’s living room sofa after a North Carolina judge ruled he did not g...

NEW DELHI - A stream of cars, motorcycles and pedestrians passed by an injured man struck by a delivery truck on a New Delhi street, leaving him to die, news reports said Friday. Closed-circuit TV foo...

WASHINGTON - US producer prices last month registered the biggest drop since September, pulled down by tumbling energy and food prices. The Labor Department says producer prices slid 0.4 per cent in J...

MARIETTA, Ga. - A Georgia man has been sentenced to four years in prison for setting his family’s dog house on fire in suburban Atlanta while the dog was inside. WSB-TV reports (http://2wsb.tv/2...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas Steinbeck, the eldest son of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and a prominent author and screenwriter in his own right, died Thursday at his Santa Barbara home. He was 72...

NEW DELHI - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan tweeted Friday that he gets detained at U.S. airports “every damn time” after he was stopped at the Los Angeles International Airport. The U....

HAMPTON, N.H. - An oversized rubber duck that was stolen from a New Hampshire family’s home five years ago has returned, shrouded in a cloud of mystery and global intrigue. The Portsmouth Herald...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: --- PENNY OLEKSIAK GOLDEN IN THE RIO POOL FOR CANADA Toronto teenager Penny Oleksiak is the proud owner of Canada’s first gold medal of th...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: --- PENNY OLEKSIAK GOLDEN IN THE RIO POOL FOR CANADA Toronto teenager Penny Oleksiak is the proud owner of Canada’s first gold medal of th...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Penny Oleksiak continues to solidify herself as a teenage swimming sensation. The 16-year-old from Toronto tied for gold in the women’s 100-metre freestyle on Thursday at the Ri...