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Bombers facing more adversity heading into showdown with Roughriders
Head coach Mike O'Shea and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have more adversity to deal with. The West Division-leading Bombers (8-2) will open an important home-and-home series with the Saska...
Aug 28, 2019

Nishikori loses focus but not match to advance at US Open
NEW YORK - Kei Nishikori lost his focus. At least he didn't lose the match. The seventh seed from Japan dropped a set, blew a lead in another and let four match points slip away before finally downing...
Aug 28, 2019

Back at US Open, Serena beats Sharapova for 19th time in row
NEW YORK - Serena Williams was not about to let Maria Sharapova make a match of this. So facing a break point early in the second set, Williams conjured up a backhand passing shot so good, so powerful...
Aug 28, 2019

The unusual suspects: British Columbia's middle-class gang problem
SURREY, B.C. - At the end of a tranquil cul-de-sac in a pleasant neighbourhood, a tall stucco house overlooks a well-kept lawn and lush flowerbeds. The home is in the Metro Vancouver city of Surr...
Aug 28, 2019

Placido Domingo concert opening sports complex in Hungary
SZEGED, Hungary - Opera legend Placido Domingo was set to appear Wednesday at a concert in southern Hungary to inaugurate a sports and youth complex for a local Catholic diocese, continuing his calend...
Aug 28, 2019

Actor McConaughey named professor at University of Texas
AUSTIN, Texas - Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university's Department of Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey h...
Aug 28, 2019

Family identifies man involved in RCMP shooting
Family members have used social media to identify the man who was shot and killed during a confrontation with RCMP officers on the Fishing Lake First Nation on Tuesday.On Wednesday, various social med...
Aug 28, 2019 Lucien Silverquill. (Facebook)

Co-accused in Jonson homicide awaiting completion of bail supervision report
A co-accused in the homicide of Mark Douglas Jonson returned to North Battleford Provincial Court via closed-circuit television Wednesday.David Keller is facing a charge of first degree murder. The 47...
Aug 28, 2019 Mark Douglas Jonson was found dead in a home on 15 Ave. and 100 St on July 5. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Court orders women accused of defaming author to share emails, online posts
VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded author Steven Galloway access to emails between a woman who accused him of sexual assault and staff at the University of British Columbia in&nbs...
Aug 28, 2019

Provinces, territories to have input in future price of carbon tax, McKenna says
OTTAWA - Any decisions about future increases in the carbon tax would take into account the views of provinces and territories, the federal environment minister says, using language tha...
Aug 28, 2019