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Ex-Penn State assistant coach Sandusky gets new sentencing
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Jerry Sandusky lost a bid for a new trial Tuesday but a Pennsylvania appeals court ordered him to be resentenced for a 45-count child molestation conviction. The former Penn State as...
Feb 05, 2019
Canucks summon Ottawa 67's goalie Mike DiPietro on 'emergency basis'
Vancouver Canucks goalie prospect Mike DiPietro has been called up to the NHL for the first time. The club says in a statement that the 19-year-old is being summoned from the Ontario Hockey League's O...
Feb 05, 2019
Tom Ouellette Memorial Sled Dog Races
The Meadow Lake Dogsled Club is hosting the Tom Ouellette Memorial Sled Dog Races presents the Tom Ouellette Memorial Sled Dog Races:February 9 & 10th from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. starting nort...
Feb 05, 2019
Drouin scores in overtime as Canadiens hand Oilers fifth straight loss
MONTREAL - With Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on a 2-on-0 breakaway in overtime, it looked like the Edmonton Oilers were destined to snap their four-game losing skid. But Draisaitl's bobbling pass...
Feb 05, 2019
Khadr trying new way to get out from under 'indefinite' sentence and bail
TORONTO - Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is asking Alberta youth court to order his release and declare his eight-year sentence - imposed by a widely maligned military commission in the Uni...
Feb 05, 2019
Serial killer Bruce McArthur plucked his victims from margins of society
TORONTO - When Bruce McArthur chose to kill, he looked to the margins of society to find his prey. While all eight of the men he admitted murdering had ties to Toronto's gay community, ...
Feb 05, 2019
New gun-control recommendations due 'in the coming weeks,' minister says
OTTAWA - Federal minister Bill Blair says his ideas for new gun-control rules might come within weeks. Since August, Blair been working on ways to get handguns and assault rifles off Canada's str...
Feb 05, 2019
Blair says federal officials dealing with backlog of refugee security screens
OTTAWA - Canada's border-security minister says there is a backlog in the screening of asylum seekers, including those who are considered irregular border-crossers walking into the country from the Un...
Feb 05, 2019
Venezuelan democracy activists criticize Canadian unions over Maduro stance
OTTAWA - Two major Canadian unions' support for Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is rooted in ignorance of the country's struggle for freedom and the plight of its downtrodden and abused workers,...
Feb 05, 2019
Man accused of smothering ailing wife with pillow says he knew it would kill her
MONTREAL - Michel Cadotte, on trial for second-degree murder in the death of his ailing wife, said Tuesday he fully understood what he was doing when he smothered her with a pillow. Under cr...
Feb 05, 2019
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