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UPDATE: Reports say two vehicles have been shot at along Highway 40
Posts to social media say two trucks have been shot at in the last two days along Highway 40. The most recent was reported on Facebook Thursday. A truck has damage on the driver's side above the rear ...
Oct 20, 2017
Final Electoral Boundaries Commission Report recommends Grande Prairie constituency
The final report from the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission is recommending the bulk of one of the ridings in the Peace be contained within Grande Prairie. City limits would form most of the bou...
Oct 20, 2017
Local businesses recognized during Small Business Week
It's Small Business Week and the Grande Prairie and District Chamber of Commerce recognized a few local businesses at their Awards of Distinction reception Wednesday night. There were around a dozen b...
Oct 20, 2017
140 arrested in Malawi after mob attacks on 'vampires'
LILONGWE, Malawi - Deadly mob attacks on people suspected to be “vampires” have led to 140 arrests in Malawi, police said Friday. The situation had spun out of control, the inspector gener...
Oct 20, 2017
Police: Stabbings at Polish shopping mall not terror attack
WARSAW, Poland - A man with a knife stabbed people Friday at a shopping mall in southeastern Poland, killing one person and injuring nine others, police said, ruling out terror or political motives fo...
Oct 20, 2017
IS claims responsibility for Afghan mosque attack
KABUL - The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the capital as Afghan officials on Saturday raised the number of casualties from the attack to at lea...
Oct 20, 2017
Closures announced during Detroit-Windsor Tunnel renovations
DETROIT - An underwater commuter traffic tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., is closing for more than a week as part of a nearly $22-million renovation project. The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is sch...
Oct 20, 2017
TV Academy votes to consider expelling Harvey Weinstein
NEW YORK - The Television Academy says it has voted to begin disciplinary proceedings against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. The academy’s board of governors issued a statement Friday de...
Oct 20, 2017
Charges, insults fly after Trump aide assails congresswoman
WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday rushed to defend chief of staff John Kelly after he mischaracterized the remarks of a Democratic congresswoman and called her an “empty barrel” makin...
Oct 20, 2017
Countries with the highest pollution deaths, mortality rates
NEW DELHI - Increasing pollution worldwide is proving deadlier than war, natural disasters or smoking, according to a new report published in the Lancet medical journal. Based largely on 2015 data fro...
Oct 20, 2017