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Jury picked in 2nd trial in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - After questions about guns, politics and COVID-19, a jury was selected Tuesday for the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitm...
Aug 09, 2022

Truck driver acquitted in deaths of 7 motorcyclists in 2019
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in a head-on collision in northern New Hampshire. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26,...
Aug 09, 2022

Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing
GREENWOOD, Miss. - A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about...
Aug 09, 2022

Police: Suspect in 4 Muslim men's killings detained
Albuquerque police say they have detained the "primary suspect" in the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico's largest city. The city's police chief on Tuesday announced the update on Twitter. Chi...
Aug 09, 2022

Canada's Rebecca Marino falls in opening match at National Bank Open
TORONTO - Canada's Rebecca Marino lost 6-3, 6-7 (5), 4-6 to China's Zheng Qinwen in the opening round of the National Bank Open on Tuesday. The Vancouver native entered the tournament coming off a qua...
Aug 09, 2022

Stable weather allows fire crews to focus on containment of B.C. wildfires
Crews battling the wildfire that has forced the evacuation of more than 500 properties in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are taking advantage of calm winds and stable conditions to bolster fire ...
Aug 09, 2022

Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids, but acknowledges that providing new servi...
Aug 09, 2022

Canada's Pospisil drops opener to Paul, Shapovalov to resume rain-suspended match
MONTREAL - Canada's Vasek Pospisil was eliminated from singles play at the National Bank Open on Tuesday after dropping a 6-4, 6-4 decision to American Tommy Paul. Pospisil, a native of Vernon, B.C., ...
Aug 09, 2022

Meaghan Mikkelson has unfinished business with Canadian women's hockey team
CALGARY - Meaghan Mikkelson wasn't done playing hockey. After three Olympic Games and two gold medals, the 37-year-old defender could have moved on from the Canadian women's team with her head held hi...
Aug 09, 2022

Insigne pulls out of MLS all-star skills challenge due to family medical situation
TORONTO - A medical issue involving Italian star Lorenzo Insigne's family promoted Toronto FC to delay its flight out of Nashville on the weekend. Toronto coach Bob Bradley said Insigne "was made awar...
Aug 09, 2022