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Oilers' Athanasiou, Flames' Jankowski among players without qualifying offers
The NHL's free agency market grew a bit more crowded Wednesday as the deadline passed for teams to submit qualifying offers to restricted free agents. Several notable names - including Flames centre M...
Oct 07, 2020
Marine general has COVID after Pentagon meeting
WASHINGTON - The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps has tested positive for the coronavirus, days after he and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in a Pentagon meeting with a Coast Guard ...
Oct 07, 2020
LEADING OFF: Homers fly in playoffs, Atlanta arms dominate
A look at what's happening around the majors on Thursday: OCTOBER OCTANE Maybe it's the Southern California air or the indoors atmosphere in Texas, but the ball is really flying this post-season. With...
Oct 07, 2020
Boushie family's lawyers hope to see law abolishing peremptory challenges remain
Colten Boushie's mother, Debbie Baptiste, doesn't want to see the clock turn back on progress in justice.She is opposed to a proposal at the Supreme Court of Canada underway in Ottawa to potentially a...
Oct 07, 2020
Texas governor gives OK for bars to begin reopening
AUSTIN, Texas - Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday allowed bars to begin reopening in Texas for the first time since June, ending a lockdown that began during a massive coronavirus outbreak that...
Oct 07, 2020
Air Ronge releases list of candidates running in 2020 municipal election
Air Ronge Returning Officer Gavin Willins has released an initial list of candidates running in the local 2020 municipal election.Long-time Mayor Gordon Stomp and current Deputy-Mayor Julie Baschuk ar...
Oct 07, 2020
Vidal reacts to NDP support of Liberal throne speech
Conservative MP Gary Vidal is critical of the New Democratic Party's (NDP) support of the Liberal government's throne speech this week, which allowed the party to avoid a confidence vote in the House ...
Oct 07, 2020
Tech worker pleads guilty in Utah college student's death
SALT LAKE CITY - A tech worker pleaded guilty in the death of a Utah college student Wednesday, more than a year after her disappearance sparked a large-scale search that ended with the discovery of h...
Oct 07, 2020
No new trial for two men convicted in Via Rail terror case: Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says there should be no new trial for two men convicted of terrorism offences. Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier were found guilty in 2015 of terror-related charges...
Oct 07, 2020
COVID-19 diagnoses closes Southend school
Reindeer Lake School in Southend closed Wednesday after a case of coronavirus was diagnosed in an individual at the facility.That's according to a letter addressed to parents by Principal Gail Clarke,...
Oct 07, 2020