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El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain
EL PASO, Texas - The massacre that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican American culture and immigration and suffered through bloody episodes...
Aug 07, 2019
Trump heads to Dayton, El Paso, facing protests
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump headed to El Paso and Dayton on Wednesday to offer a message of healing and unity, but he will be met by unusual hostility in both places by people who fault his ow...
Aug 07, 2019
Trump vows urgent action after shootings, offers few details
WASHINGTON - Speaking out against weekend mass shootings that rocked a nation, President Donald Trump called for bipartisan solutions to the bloodshed but offered few details and faced pointed questio...
Aug 07, 2019
Applications for Rutherford Scholarship open after being put on hold by province
EDMONTON, AB - Alberta's most widely used post-secondary scholarship is working as intended once again, after concern that students would not be able to receive it before the school year.Applications ...
Aug 07, 2019 Alberta minister of advanced education Demetrios Nicolaides (Photo courtesy of Demetrios Nicolaides / Facebook)
Stoby claims bronze at World Junior Mixed Martial Arts Championships
It was a great long weekend for Grande Prairie's Ian Stoby as he represented Canada at the inaugural World Junior Mixed Martial Arts Championships in Rome.Stoby competed in the A division among 16 and...
Aug 07, 2019 (photo credit to Champion Gym Facebook page)
Toni Morrison was a 'literary mother' to countless writers
NEW YORK - When author Angela Flournoy was asked to dress as her favourite literary character for a magazine shoot four years ago, she knew how to look the part: a wide and "severe hat," a fur stole a...
Aug 07, 2019
Federal charges ramp up pressure on R. Kelly to make deal
CHICAGO - R. Kelly couldn't be faulted if he felt some confidence he could beat the sex charges brought by Cook County prosecutors earlier this year. He had beaten them before, winning acquittal on al...
Aug 07, 2019
AP Was There: Pregnant actress, 4 others killed at LA home
LOS ANGELES - Fifty years ago this week, Charles Manson orchestrated the slaughter of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six other people over two nights in Los Angeles. The Manson family, as the cult l...
Aug 07, 2019
13 victims after nearly a dozen shootings over the weekend: Toronto police
TORONTO - Thirteen people were injured after nearly a dozen shootings across Toronto over the long weekend, one of which sparked chaos as gunshots rang out in a packed nightclub. "This is no...
Aug 07, 2019
Colder and wetter July than normal in Grande Prairie
Mother nature hasn't been too kind to the Swan City so far this summer with the amount of the rain the City and the region has received.Environment Canada Meteorologist Dan Kulak revealed that July 20...
Aug 07, 2019 (photo credit to Curtis Galbraith)