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Graft convictions extend Suu Kyi's prison term to 26 years
BANGKOK (AP) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on two more corruption charges Wednesday, with two three-year sentences, to be served concurre...
Oct 11, 2022
Ex-Texas cop charged for shooting teen eating hamburger
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen who was eating a hambur...
Oct 11, 2022
Winnipeg wants to host Grey Cup championship, Manitoba offers $5.5M to help bid
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are bidding to host the Canadian Football League Grey Cup championship in either 2024 or 2025, and the Manitoba government is offering up to $5.5 million to help t...
Oct 11, 2022
Small Yukon First Nation bans sex offender using its COVID emergency law
WHITEHORSE - A First Nation of fewer than 300 people in Yukon's north has used a law it created during the COVID-19 pandemic to bar a convicted sex offender from being sent to its community. The Vuntu...
Oct 11, 2022
Fernandez bounced in opening round at WTA San Diego Open
SAN DIEGO - Daria Kasatkina took less than an hour on Tuesday to end Leylah Fernandez's experience at the WTA San Diego Open. The eighth-seeded Russian bounced the Montreal athlete 6-2, 6-2 in the fir...
Oct 11, 2022
Football, dramas lead Nielsen's weekly top 20 list
NEW YORK (AP) - Here's the Nielsen company's list of the 20 most-watched prime-time television programs for the week of Oct. 3-9: 1. NFL Football: Cincinnati at Baltimore, NBC, 15.88 million. 2. "NFL ...
Oct 11, 2022
Cameco part of group buying Westinghouse Electric
The company that owns and operates uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan has announced a major step into the nuclear value chain.Cameco Corporation has announced it is forming a strategic partnership...
Oct 11, 2022
Hope Solo to object to US Soccer equal pay deal
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawyer for Hope Solo filed a notice with a court indicating the former U.S. goalkeeper wants to object to the settlement of the equal pay lawsuit between her former teammates and ...
Oct 11, 2022
P.A. and North Sask. see no job growth in September, other provincial regions experience loss in positions
Prince Albert and Northern Saskatchewan didn't see any job growth in September; but this wasn't entirely a bad thing.While the region continues to employ around the same amount of people it did in Aug...
Oct 11, 2022
Police presence in Christopher Lake results in three arrests
Three people have been charged and another is at large after a vehicle failed to stop for police near Christopher Lake.Last Friday, an RCMP Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan officer was doing tra...
Oct 11, 2022
