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Female Midget Storm still winless at Provincials
The Peace Country Female Midget Storm are still looking for their first win at provincials at the Coke Centre, after a 5-1 loss to St Albert yesterday dropped their record to 0-2-1. Quinn Cote had the...
Mar 30, 2019
Travellers stranded after Icelandic airline collapses
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Icelandic budget airline WOW Air collapsed under its financial problems on Thursday, leading it to ground planes and leave passengers stranded across two continents. The airline, ...
Mar 30, 2019
$768M Powerball winner bought ticket in Milwaukee suburb
NEW BERLIN, Wis. - A single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the estimated $768.4 million jackpot - the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history - was sold in a Milwaukee subu...
Mar 30, 2019
16 dead after blast outside restaurant in Somalia's capital
NAIROBI, Kenya - An explosives-laden vehicle detonated outside a busy restaurant in Somalia's capital, killing at least 16 people, police said Thursday. Capt. Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press...
Mar 30, 2019
Pope explains reluctant ring kiss: Fear of spreading germs
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has set the record straight about why he pulled his hand away when throngs of people lined up this week to kiss his ring: for fear of spreading germs. Vatican spokesman Ale...
Mar 30, 2019
City leaders: Smollett owes Chicago $130K for investigation
CHICAGO - City officials have ordered Jussie Smollett to pay $130,000 to cover the cost of the investigation into his report of a street attack that Chicago police say was staged to promote his career...
Mar 30, 2019
Commemorative site for missing and murdered Indigenous women being planned
A project is currently in the works that would see a piece of land close to GPRC become a commemorative site for missing and murdered Indigenous women. Representative for the Grande Prairie Friendship...
Mar 30, 2019 Delaine Lambert-English at City Hall holding a photo of what the site could possibly look like
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams New Brunswick's stance on federal carbon levy
ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed New Brunswick Thursday for its opposition to the federal carbon levy, saying Conservative governments across the country "don't think that fig...
Mar 30, 2019
Solskjaer stays at the wheel in his dream job at Man United
In his 99 days as interim manager at Manchester United, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer delivered a record-breaking set of results, restored the team's identity and swagger, and lifted the gloom lingering from t...
Mar 30, 2019
At least 19 killed by Bangladesh high-rise building blaze
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A fire swept through a high-rise office building in Bangladesh's capital on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and injuring about 70 others, officials said. The blaze trapped man...
Mar 30, 2019