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Start of the season postponed for U18 Lights
The U18 Northern Lights baseball team will have to wait a little longer before beginning their 2019 season.The club was suppose to begin their campaign in St.Albert this weekend with a trio of games, ...
Apr 29, 2019 (photo credit to the Northern Lights Baseball Academy)
Death toll jumps to 38 after Mozambique's latest cyclone
PEMBA, Mozambique - The death toll from Cyclone Kenneth in northern Mozambique jumped to 38, the government announced on Monday, as flooding and pounding rains hampered efforts to deliver aid to badly...
Apr 29, 2019
Corruption claims, mailbox send Hawaii power couple to trial
HONOLULU - He was Honolulu's Rolex-wearing police chief, an avid surfer who chatted with beat cops in Pidgin, Hawaii's creole language. She was his deputy city prosecutor wife, who drove a Maserati an...
Apr 29, 2019
Biden heads to Pennsylvania to pitch rebuilding middle class
HARRISBURG, Pa. - By picking Pennsylvania for his first campaign speech of the presidential race, Joe Biden is signalling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election's toughest battleground. Plantin...
Apr 29, 2019
Links to Easter bombings put eastern Sri Lanka on edge
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka - Suicide bombings at a militants' safe house have shaken the simple homes of this east Sri Lankan town as well as the rest of this idyllic coast, as the investigation into the Isl...
Apr 29, 2019
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's misleading rhetoric on immigrants
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is spreading misleading rhetoric about illegal immigration. At a Wisconsin rally, he suggested he's launched his plan to transport immigrants in the U.S. illegally ...
Apr 29, 2019
McLeod's season ends following Game 6 loss to Prince Albert
Dawson Creek's Wyatt McLeod and the Edmonton Oil Kings have been eliminated from the post-season.McLeod's Oil Kings dropped Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final to the Prince Albert Raiders Sunday 4...
Apr 29, 2019 Photo by Andy Devlin/Edmonton Oil Kings
Simpsons take shot at Ottawa Senators in Canadian-themed episode
The Ottawa Senators were unable to avoid being the punchline of a joke on Sunday's Canadian-themed episode of The Simpsons. The episode, titled D'Oh Canada, featured a scene w...
Apr 29, 2019
Spring storm wreaks havoc across southern Alberta
Blizzard conditions brought traffic to a standstill on highways in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan over the weekend.Snow-covered sections of the Trans-Canada on either side of Calgary reopened yeste...
Apr 29, 2019 (Photo credit LethbridgeNewsNOW)
Scheer to demand Canada pull funds from Chinese multilateral development bank
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to respond to China's ban on Canadian canola shipments by taking a number of steps, including pulling hundre...
Apr 29, 2019