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Brunson 41 points, Mavs 22 made 3s to beat Jazz in Game 2
DALLAS (AP) - Jalen Brunson scored a career-high 41 points, Maxi Kleber had 25 with eight of Dallas' playoff-record 22 made 3-points and the Mavericks, without superstar Luka Doncic, evened up their f...
Apr 18, 2022

Gaudreau, Markstrom help Flames beat Blackhawks 5-2
CHICAGO (AP) - Johnny Gaudreau, Dillon Dube and Blake Coleman scored in the first period, and the Calgary Flames beat the lowly Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Monday night. Jacob Markstrom made 21 saves as...
Apr 18, 2022

Sixers beat undermanned Raptors 112-97 to take 2-0 playoff series lead
PHILADELPHIA - Joel Embiid had 31 points and 11 rebounds and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the undermanned Toronto Raptors 112-97 on Monday to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series. OG Anu...
Apr 18, 2022

Corey O’Soup fired by FSIN for calling a First Nation hockey team the ‘Beerhawks’
Corey O'Soup says he made a mistake by referring to an Indigenous hockey team as the "Beerhawks."The speech error made twice this month during a large First Nations hockey tournament in the province w...
Apr 18, 2022

Cases of bird flu confirmed in Sask.
The brutal wave of bird flu that has devastated commercial poultry farms across North America has spread further in Saskatchewan.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said it detected the highly ...
Apr 18, 2022

Van Dyke avoids federal charges in Laquan McDonald's death
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal authorities on Monday said they will not criminally charge Jason Van Dyke, the former Chicago police officer convicted of murder in the 2014 shooting death of Black teenager Laq...
Apr 18, 2022

Connor Bedard to lead Canada's defence of under-18 hockey championship
CALGARY - Regina Pats star Connor Bedard has been named to Canada's roster for the upcoming world under-18 men's hockey championship in Germany. The 16-year-old Bedard, from North Vancouver, B.C., is ...
Apr 18, 2022

Second arrest made in South Carolina mall shooting
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Police in South Carolina have announced the arrest of a second person in a shootout inside a busy shopping mall in the state's capital, one of two mass shootings that rocked the ...
Apr 18, 2022

Veterans group winding down work helping Afghan interpreters get to Canada
OTTAWA - What began as a 30-day fundraising campaign to help Afghan interpreters flee the Taliban turned into a harrowing, chaotic and deeply frustrating eight-month effort for the Veterans Transition...
Apr 18, 2022

Live Updates | UN humanitarian: Cease fire not quite ripe
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations' humanitarian chief said it seems "the time is not quite ripe yet" to establish a cease fire to get humanitarian aid into Ukraine, but he held out hope as the Ortho...
Apr 18, 2022