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'Empire' producers cut Smollett from season's last episodes
CHICAGO - Actor Jussie Smollett’s character on “Empire” will be removed from the final two episodes of this season in the wake of his arrest on charges that he staged a racist, anti-...
Feb 22, 2019
SNC-Lavalin: A look at the attorney general's power to step in
OTTAWA - Opposition parties are accusing the Liberal government of meddling in a decision of the federal prosecution service to proceed with a criminal case against SNC-Lavalin. Under the law, the fed...
Feb 22, 2019
Police find significant amount of drugs after searches in Sangudo and Rochfort Bridge
Mayerthorpe RCMP have arrested four people after a pair of searches turned up drugs and property believed to be stolen. Mayerthorpe RCMP teamed up with the Western Alberta District Rural Crime Reducti...
Feb 22, 2019
R. Kelly's European concerts in doubt after new charges
R. Kelly’s hopes of doing a tour of Europe in April have been all but dashed now that he is facing new criminal charges. Kelly defiantly scheduled concerts in two locations in Germany and one in...
Feb 22, 2019
Lawyers take Quebec to court over abrupt closure of 18,000 immigration files
MONTREAL - The judge hearing an injunction request over the Quebec government’s decision to cancel more than 18,000 immigration applications will render a decision early next week. Representativ...
Feb 22, 2019
Trudeau tells Canadians to listen to clerk in SNC-Lavalin matter
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be pressured Monday to testify at a House of Commons committee looking into allegations the prime minister and his staff pressured former attorney general J...
Feb 22, 2019
NEB suggests noise reduction for ferries and other vessels in B.C.'s Salish Sea
CALGARY - A reconsidered National Energy Board report endorsing the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline suggests potential limits on whale-watching boats and noise reduction efforts for ferries t...
Feb 22, 2019
Judge dismisses charges over boy's death on waterslide
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A judge dismissed criminal charges Friday against a Kansas water park owner and the designer of a 17-story slide on which a 10-year-old boy was decapitated in 2016. Wyandotte Count...
Feb 22, 2019
Moove on: No more 'cow-tipping' shirts at Oklahoma airport
OKLAHOMA CITY - The mayor of Oklahoma City is celebrating the completion of a personal mission: ridding the city’s airport of cow-tipping T-shirts. Mayor David Holt said on his Twitter account T...
Feb 22, 2019
Virginia Republicans invite Fairfax's accusers to testify
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia House Republicans announced plans Friday to hold a public hearing where Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and the two women who have recently accused him of sexual assault can testify, ...
Feb 22, 2019