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BOSTON - Free agent pitcher Rich Hill and his wife were arrested outside Saturday's New England Patriots game after police said his wife attempted to enter the stadium with an oversized bag and he arg...

LAS VEGAS - A fire in a three-story apartment building in downtown Las Vegas where residents were apparently using their stoves for heat killed six people and forced some residents to jump from upper-...

PARIS - France's defence ministry announced Monday it had carried out its first armed drone strike, killing seven Islamic extremists in central Mali over the weekend. France joins a tiny group of coun...

NEW YORK - A dancer born with one hand is the first person with a visible disability ever hired by New York's famed Radio City Rockettes. "I don't want to be known as the dancer who has one hand, and ...

BEIRUT - Syrian government forces pressed ahead Monday with a new military assault on the country's last rebel stronghold that began last week, an offensive that has set off a mass exodus of civilians...

MONTREAL - The family of a Canadian geologist jailed in Dubai on fraud charges is cautiously optimistic he'll be exonerated in a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Andre Gauthier...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a plan that transforms six insolvent regional French-language newspapers across the province into employee cooperatives and reduces pen...

REGINA - A nearly three-week labour dispute between a Saskatchewan petroleum refinery and hundreds of its workers moved from the picket line into the courtroom Monday, with the company seeking an inju...

The Grande Prairie RCMP have charged Justin Heaven of Grande Prairie, Shawn Robson-Harder and Ashley Howard of Edmonton in connection with a string of recent mail thefts following the execution of a w...

CALLING LAKE, Alta. - A charge of assaulting a police officer has been laid against a northern Alberta man who is accused of using a machete to keep an RCMP officer at bay.Two Mounties with the Athaba...