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Eastlink Centre's Racquetball & Squash courts undergo name change
The City of Grande Prairie announced Monday morning the racquetball and squash courts located inside of the Eastlink Centre will now be called the Equity Rentals Squash and Racquetball courts.This tha...
Aug 13, 2019 (photo credit to the City of Grande Prairie)
Cosby lawyers ask appeals court to toss #MeToo conviction
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania appeals court questioned why Bill Cosby's legal team never got a supposed non-prosecution agreement in writing as his latest lawyers fought Monday to have his sexual a...
Aug 13, 2019
Driver caught going 226 km/hour near Brooks
BROOKS, AB - Brooks RCMP have arrested a 20-year-old man on dangerous driving offenses.At 9:45 pm on Friday, August 9th, officers were doing patrols of Highway 1 when they saw a westbound vehicle driv...
Aug 13, 2019
Flights out of Hong Kong cancelled again amid protests
HONG KONG - Protesters severely crippled operations at Hong Kong's international airport for a second day Tuesday, forcing authorities to cancel all remaining flights out of the city after demonstrato...
Aug 13, 2019
Scrutiny of Epstein's death and co-conspirators intensifies
NEW YORK - Amid revelations about the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death , federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he was beh...
Aug 13, 2019
Epstein death shifts federal focus to possible conspirators
NEW YORK - In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide , federal prosecutors in New York have shifted their focus to possible charges against anyone who assisted or enabled him in what authorities say wa...
Aug 13, 2019
No chaos this time as Woodstock concert site preps for 50th
BETHEL, N.Y. - Woodstock will be celebrated on its 50th anniversary, but it won't be your hippie uncle's trample-the-fences concert. While plans for a big Woodstock 50 festival collapsed after a run o...
Aug 13, 2019
N. Korea says Kim supervised weapons tests, criticizes Seoul
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea said Sunday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system, which extended a streak of launches that are seen as an attemp...
Aug 13, 2019
Death toll rises to 93 in floods, mudslides in south India
NEW DELHI - At least 93 people have been killed and more than 400,000 displaced in floods and mudslides following days of torrential rains in southern India. In the worst-hit state of Kerala the death...
Aug 13, 2019
Tear gas fired in Hong Kong with no end in sight to protests
HONG KONG - Police fired tear gas Sunday inside a train station and in several other Hong Kong neighbourhoods where protesters occupied roads in another weekend of anti-government demonstrations. Prot...
Aug 13, 2019