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Correction: Empire Cast Member-Attack-Police story
CHICAGO - In a story March 26 about Chicago's police superintendent and mayor being angered by prosecutors' surprise decision to drop charges against Jussie Smollett, The Associated Press reported an ...
Mar 28, 2019

Denis Shapovalov joins fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in Miami semis
MIAMI - Denis Shapovalov has continued a marvellous March for Canadian teen tennis players. The 19-year-old native of Richmond Hill, Ont., joined fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, 18, in the semi...
Mar 28, 2019

Village of Pinehouse now under official inquiry and financial audit
A long-time resident of the northern Village of Pinehouse, who is part of a group of citizens behind a legacy of thwarted efforts to glean information from the municipality, is delighted with news of ...
Mar 28, 2019 Martin Martinson/paNOW Staff

Save The Children: 7 killed in airstrike on Yemen hospital
A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike Tuesday killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said. The international aid organization, which supports...
Mar 28, 2019

Blue Jays' Charlie Montoyo pleased with MLB managerial debut despite loss
TORONTO - Charlie Montoyo anxiously waited at the top of the home dugout until he got a pat on his shoulder telling him that it was his turn to go on to the field at Rogers Centre. The 53-year-old Mon...
Mar 28, 2019

Baltimore mayor says her $500K book deal was a 'mistake'
Baltimore's mayor on Thursday described a lucrative arrangement to sell her self-published children's books to a university-based health care system as a "regrettable mistake" and offered apologies fo...
Mar 28, 2019

Regina Police release RCMP review of Nadine Machiskinic death investigation
REGINA - The Regina Police Service has released an RCMP report into how it investigated the death of an Indigenous woman who fell 10 storeys down a laundry chute. Nadine Machiskinic, who was 29,&...
Mar 28, 2019

CCHS students preparing for Skills Canada Provincial Competition
Students from Churchill Community High School will represent northern Saskatchewan in the Skills Canada Provincial Competition next month in Saskatoon."There are 46 different trades students can enrol...
Mar 28, 2019 Grade 10 student Kelli Young impressed judges enough at a regional culinary competition Wednesday to earn her spot at provincials. (Churchill Community High School/Facebook)

Movie set materials cited in firefighter's death in NYC
NEW YORK - Highly combustible materials used to turn a former jazz club into a movie set contributed to the death of a veteran New York City firefighter last year, according to a fire department repor...
Mar 28, 2019

Cannabis banking bill advances in US House committee
DENVER - Legislation that would provide federal protection for financial institutions that serve state-authorized marijuana and ancillary businesses passed a U.S. House committee on Thursday. The Hous...
Mar 28, 2019