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Instability, sudden changes threaten to derail Impact's playoff push
MONTREAL - A whirlwind of sudden changes and instability could derail the Montreal Impact's playoff hopes down the stretch. A week of rotten luck - including new injuries to Ignacio Piatti and Samuel ...
Aug 16, 2019
'Easy Rider' star and writer Peter Fonda has died at age 79
LOS ANGELES - Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right both writing and starring in counterculture classics like "Easy Rider," has died. His family says in a...
Aug 16, 2019
Colorado OKs electric car requirement to fight air pollution
DENVER - Colorado tightened its air quality regulations on Friday, requiring that at least 5% of the vehicles sold in the state by 2023 emit zero pollution. The state Air Quality Control Commission, w...
Aug 16, 2019
Man arrested in search warrant that revealed six stolen rifles
PRINCE GEORGE- RCMP arrested a man in during a Criminal Code search warrant in which officers discovered stolen property.The Prince George RCMP Street Crew Unit executed a search warrant at a residenc...
Aug 16, 2019
NRA wants a role when Oliver North meets state investigators
NEW YORK - A National Rifle Association leader-turned-critic is meeting with New York investigators next week, and the NRA wants to be there.a New York's attorney general's office is questioning Olive...
Aug 16, 2019
Second man charged in Williams Lake attempted murder
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A second man has been charged with attempted murder after an incident in Williams Lake last weekend.Williams Lake RCMP say 23-year-old Michael Drynock remains at large. Drynock i...
Aug 16, 2019 Michael Drynock (Image Credit: RCMP Handout)
For inmates like Epstein, suicide watch is meant to be short
NEW YORK - Suicide is such a constant concern at federal jails that guards have ready access to "the stick," a wooden pole with a sharpened blade at the end that's used to cut down inmates if they try...
Aug 16, 2019
LA Opera declines details on Placido Domingo investigation
SAN FRANCISCO - The Los Angeles Opera declined Friday to release any details of its promised investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against opera legend Placido Domingo, the company's lon...
Aug 16, 2019
'Naive': Police chiefs say handgun ban wouldn't stop flow of weapons into Canada
CALGARY - The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police won't be supporting a call for a ban on handguns despite concerns about gun violence in a number of major cities including Toronto. Vancouve...
Aug 16, 2019
Paule Marshall, novelist of diverse influences, dead at 90
NEW YORK - Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as "Daughters" and "Brown Girl, Brownstones" drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother's kitchen ...
Aug 16, 2019