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US home sales jumped to 13-year high before viral outbreak
WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales jumped in February to their highest level in 13 years, a trend that will almost certainly be reversed as people stop showing their property out of fear of infection in the...
Mar 20, 2020
Fond du Lac travel ban in place, band members to receive financial assistance
A request for emergency funding by Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation Chief Louie Mercredi has been approved by trustees of the Treaty 8 Benefits Trust. A letter written to the band members from the ...
Mar 20, 2020 The travel ban went into effect today. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Fed to boost lending to $1 trillion a day to ease credit
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve moved with unprecedented force and speed Friday to pump huge amounts of cash into the financial system to ease disruptions that have escalated since the viral outbreak...
Mar 20, 2020
Netflix establishes $100 million virus relief fund
LOS ANGELES - Netflix said Friday it is establishing a $100 million relief fund for workers in the worldwide creative community affected by the coronavirus-caused halt of most film and television prod...
Mar 20, 2020
Free online martial arts classes open to all children in northern Saskatchewan
Free online martial arts classes are available to all interested children in northern Saskatchewan.That's according to La Ronge-based Ninja Kids sensei Chris de Feijter, who has operated his Nihon Jju...
Mar 20, 2020 Ninja Kids has operated in La Ronge for five years. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
1st Ohio coronavirus death; 11 nursing home cases suspected
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine confirmed the state's first death from the coronavirus was a 76-year-old attorney from the Toledo area who recently travelled to California. Near Dayton, 11 resi...
Mar 20, 2020
Six more cases of COVID-19 in Sask.; total now 26
Saskatchewan has six new presumptive cases of COVID-19.The total in the province as of Friday is 26; eight are confirmed and 18 are presumptive."Twenty-four of the 26 cases are well enough to self-iso...
Mar 20, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, updates media on COVID-19, Mar. 19 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Marble Madness! Obscure sports rule in coronavirus pandemic
PHILADELPHIA - Welcome to the Marble Universe, where the rushing of glass balls down race tracks, around sandy beach corners or getting thumped by fidget spinners has suddenly become as captivating as...
Mar 20, 2020
Toronto Blue Jays send Anthony Kay, Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have optioned left-hander Anthony Kay and right-hander Sean Reid-Foley to triple-A Buffalo. The moves come during an indefinite suspension of all professional baseball ...
Mar 20, 2020
USA Swimming urges USOPC to ask for delay of Tokyo Games
DENVER - The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signalling the first fissure between powerful American faction...
Mar 20, 2020