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Heavy gunfire reported in Jersey City neighbourhood
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Heavy gunfire was exchanged Tuesday for at least an hour in a Jersey City neighbourhood. SWAT teams responded to the scene, and police have blocked off the major thoroughfare. Loud...
Dec 10, 2019
Crews still battling fire from crude oil train derailment in central Saskatchewan
LANIGAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's public safety agency says crews are working in frigid temperatures as they continue to battle a fire that started when a freight train carrying...
Dec 10, 2019
Tax cuts, flood fight and cost-control on Manitoba premier's agenda
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is promising a "bolder" approach in 2020 with his Progressive Conservative government now in its second term. Pallister says despite fears of a potentially ...
Dec 10, 2019
Accused in Thunderchild First Nation murder in process of seeking a bail hearing
A man charged in connection to a homicide on the Thunderchild First Nation last year will remain in custody until at least the new year. Ivor Antoine Wapass, 44, is charged with second-degree murder i...
Dec 10, 2019 Ivor Antoine Wapass, 44, remains in custody while facing a charge of second-degree murder connected to the death of Roger Standingwater on Sept. 15, 2018. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff).
Brazil's Bolsonaro calls activist Greta Thunberg a "brat"
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a "brat" after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilian...
Dec 10, 2019
Mule deer buck shot and left near St. Louis
Saskatchewan Conservation Officers are investigating another deer being shot illegally and then left to waste. This time it was a mule deer buck found south of Prince Albert near the community of St. ...
Dec 10, 2019 A mule deer buck left to waste east of St. Louis. (Facebook/SaskTip)
Handke takes Nobel Literature Prize amid protest
STOCKHOLM - Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Handke accepted the 9-millio...
Dec 10, 2019
Mexican ex-security chief charged in US in drug conspiracy
NEW YORK - A man who served as secretary of public security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012 has been indicted in New York City on drug charges alleging he accepted millions of dollars in bribes to let the...
Dec 10, 2019
B.C. seaplane company tests first commercial electronic aircraft
RICHMOND, B.C. - The world's first all-electric commercial aircraft landed today after a test flight at the Harbour Air Seaplane terminal in Richmond, B.C. Harbour Air announced in March tha...
Dec 10, 2019
'Frozen 2' leads box office again; 'Playmobil' flops
NEW YORK - "Frozen 2" blanketed multiplexes for the third straight weekend, continuing its reign at No. 1 with $34.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Walt Disney Co. ...
Dec 10, 2019