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Slain Barnard College student mourned at private memorial
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A Barnard College freshman who was fatally stabbed in a New York City park earlier this month was remembered by friends and classmates Saturday at a private memorial service at ...
Dec 23, 2019
Ovechkin, Pastrnak, MacKinnon, McDavid are All-Star captains
NEW YORK - Washington's Alex Ovechkin, Boston's David Pastrnak, Colorado's Nathan MacKinnon and Edmonton's Connor McDavid were voted NHL All-Star captains. Ovechkin was voted by fans to captain the Me...
Dec 23, 2019
Police believe accused shot at two others after fatally wounding victim
The 18-year-old accused of murdering a 69-year-old man in an incident Dec. 20 at Red Deer's south-end Walmart is also accused of shooting his modified semi-automatic rifle at two other people.RCMP hel...
Dec 23, 2019 Police tape stretches across an area of the parking lot at Red Deer's south-end Walmart the evening of Dec. 20. 69-year-old Charles (Jim) Williams died after being shot in the chest. (rdnewsNOW)
ICBC sorry for suggesting deceased BC Mountie liable for on-duty deadly crash
VICTORIA - The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is apologizing for wrongly suggesting a deceased Mountie was liable for the on-duty crash that claimed her life, saying it's taking to steps to...
Dec 23, 2019
Share the Warmth campaign continues as over 900 more donations come in
More winter wears have been donated to local groups from the Business Network International's (BNI) Northern Connection chapter in Grande Prairie.The BNI's Share the Warmth campaign ran this past Nove...
Dec 23, 2019 Don Murray with Richmond Dry Cleaners and Nicky Cawson with BNI Alberta (photo courtesy of Nicky Cawson)
Grande Prairie RCMP charge five more in impaired driving blitz
Five more people have been charged by Grande Prairie RCMP with criminal impaired driving, as a result of a continued effort to reduce impaired driving this holiday season.After charging four people th...
Dec 23, 2019 The RCMP's Mobile Breath Test Unit racked up more drunk drivers this past weekend (Photo: Shaun Penner)
Dubnyk records shutout as Wild blank Flames 3-0
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Devan Dubnyk recorded his first shutout of the season and Joel Eriksson Ek and Luke Kunin each scored for Minnesota in the Wild's 3-0 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday. Dubnyk ma...
Dec 23, 2019
Plays of the year: 2019 had a flair for the dramatic
Thousands of pro games, hundreds of thousands of college games, millions of high school games and billions of youth-league, rec-league, bar-league and whatever other sort of league games you can think...
Dec 23, 2019
Toronto Raptors star Kyle Lowry earns East player of the week nod
Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry has been named the NBA's Eastern Conference player of the week. Lowry averaged 24.5 points, 10 assists, 6.5 rebounds and 39.6 minutes while helping the inju...
Dec 23, 2019
Roenick suspended by NBC Sports for inappropriate comments
Former NHL forward Jeremy Roenick was suspended indefinitely by NBC Sports on Monday for his inappropriate comments about coworkers. Roenick made a series of questionable remarks about fellow hockey b...
Dec 23, 2019