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Speedy Sir: Lewis Hamilton knighted in year-end royal honours
LONDON - Lewis Hamilton is now a "Sir" as well as a seven-time Formula One champion. Hamilton received a knighthood Wednesday as part of Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honours list, which also recogn...
Dec 30, 2020
Police on report man was making bombs: 'Hindsight is 20/20'
NASHVILLE - More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a Christmas Day bomb in downtown Nashville, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police he was building bombs in a recreatio...
Dec 30, 2020
Government: Colombia manual coca eradication most in decade
BOGOTA - Colombia manually eradicated 130,000 hectares of coca crops in 2020, the highest figure in the last decade, the government said. The figure easily tops the 94,670 hectares of coca manually er...
Dec 30, 2020
Spurs' Becky Hammon first woman to direct NBA team
SAN ANTONIO - Becky Hammon became the first women to direct a team in NBA history, taking over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers following Gregg Popovich's ejecti...
Dec 30, 2020
Speedy Sir: Lewis Hamilton knighted in year-end royal honours
LONDON - Lewis Hamilton is now a "Sir" as well as a seven-time Formula One champion. Hamilton received a knighthood Wednesday as part of Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honours list, which also recogn...
Dec 30, 2020
China gives conditional approval to Sinopharm vaccine
BEIJING - China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The vaccine is the first one approved for general use in China. Chen Shifei, the deputy comm...
Dec 30, 2020
Heavy snow expected in Texas; storm could spawn tornadoes
AUSTIN, Texas - A winter storm moving across southwestern Texas on Wednesday could dump more than a foot (0.30 metres) of snow before moving eastward and possibly spawning tornadoes in parts of Texas,...
Dec 30, 2020
Girl Scouts call on cookie bakers to address child labour
The Girl Scouts of the USA said Wednesday that child labour has no place in its iconic cookies and called on the two companies that bake them to act quickly to address any potential abuses linked to t...
Dec 30, 2020
'We need harder fines' : PG man fed up with illegal dumping
PRINCE GEORGE - After coming through over 20 bags of garbage, Grant Purdue has had enough."We need harder fines, we need harder penalties," says Purdue. "The conservation officers and local authoritie...
Dec 30, 2020
Graham taking local connections abroad ahead of World Cup run
PRINCE GEORGE - Just a few days after arriving at the Crosspark Reiteralm in Austria, 19-year-old Colby Graham heard word that the International Ski Federation had cancelled the Snowboard Cross World ...
Dec 30, 2020