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NHL set to resume after six-day break; three more games postponed
After shutting down for a week, the NHL resumes play Tuesday with three games on the schedule amid hopes that its extended holiday break caused by a rash of positive COVID-19 test results will set the...
Dec 27, 2021

National Lacrosse League postpones three games due to COVID-19 concerns
The National Lacrosse League has postponed three games due to COVID-19. The league made the announcement on Monday after consulting with health authorities and officials in Canada and the United State...
Dec 27, 2021

Mama bear, cubs spotted napping in tree in Va. neighborhood
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) - Officials in Virginia have closed a road in one neighborhood after a mother bear and three cubs were spotted napping in a tree there. Chesapeake Animal Services asked residents ...
Dec 27, 2021

Omicron spreads global gloom over New Year's celebrations
BRUSSELS (AP) - As omicron spreads ever more gloom around the globe ahead of New Year's Eve, governments are moving at different speeds to contain the scourge, with some reimposing restrictions immedi...
Dec 27, 2021

Panthers send players home after 6 more positive COVID tests
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Carolina Panthers have sent all of their players home from Bank of America Stadium after six more players tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. That brings the total numbe...
Dec 27, 2021

COVID-19's Omicron surge prompts concerns over hospitalizations in some provinces
Some provinces released updates regarding COVID-19 hospitalizations on Monday, which highlighted an increase in case numbers driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. Queb...
Dec 27, 2021

Edward O. Wilson, biologist known as 'ant man,' dead at 92
BOSTON (AP) - Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who advanced the provocative theory that human behavior such as war and altruism has a genetic basis and warned against the decline of ...
Dec 27, 2021

Police shootings in 2021: Experts say number in Canada remains too high
Despite growing calls for changes in policing, the number of officer shootings in Canada remains too high, say criminology experts. On-duty police officers fired at 64 people in Canada between Jan. 1 ...
Dec 27, 2021

Klopp frustrated by EPL's 3-sub rule as COVID-19 cases bite
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp became the latest Premier League manager to express his frustration at being allowed to make only three substitutions in a match at a busy time when many squads are bein...
Dec 27, 2021

'What kind of message does that send?' Nunavut works to change police oversight
IQALUIT, Nunavut - As Nunavut works to change the way police oversight works in the territory, concerns remain over how injuries or deaths involving RCMP officers are communicated to the public. The t...
Dec 27, 2021