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Matthews scores two more as part of another four-point night, Leafs down Habs
MONTREAL - Auston Matthews scored twice to increase his NHL-leading goal total to 18 and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Saturday.Mitch Marner, with...
Feb 20, 2021
Sam Burns holds his own on a tough, windy day at Riviera
LOS ANGELES - The wind stopped Sam Burns right when he was about to get started with a five-shot lead Saturday at the Genesis Invitational. Darkness stopped him right after two straight bogeys narrowe...
Feb 20, 2021
Sheriff: 3 dead in gun store shooting in New Orleans suburb
METAIRIE, La. - A suspect fatally shot two people at a gun store in a suburb of New Orleans on Saturday afternoon, and the shooter also died during gunfire as others engaged the suspect both inside an...
Feb 20, 2021
Canadian bantamweight Aiemann Zahabi ends losing streak with big UFC knockout
LAS VEGAS - Canadian bantamweight Aiemann Zahabi knocked out Drako (The Great Drakolini) Rodriguez in the first round on the undercard of a UFC Fight Night show. Rodriguez had been pushing the early p...
Feb 20, 2021
Grande Prairie adds 14 new COVID-19 cases, 24 recoveries
The active COVID-19 case count in the City of Grande Prairie saw a decline on Friday, as 14 new cases were recorded alongside 24 recoveries, bringing the current active case count down to 227 and the ...
Feb 20, 2021
Bright sun, poor ice delay outdoor NHL game at Lake Tahoe
STATELINE, Nev. - The setting was spectacular but the ice conditions were far from it, leading to an extended delay between the first and second period of the outdoor game between the Vegas Golden Kni...
Feb 20, 2021
Injured Canadian goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan leaves SheBelieves Cup to return to club
ORLANDO, Fla. - Injury has ruled Canadian goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan out of the rest of the SheBelieves Cup. The 25-year-old from Whitby, Ont., had to be helped off the field Thursday after suffering ...
Feb 20, 2021
Tam urges need to maintain individual COVID-19 precautions as variant cases mount
Public health officials have identified upwards of 700 cases of contagious COVID-19 variants across Canada, the nation's top doctor said Saturday, a finding she said lends new urgency to her calls to ...
Feb 20, 2021
Chinese ambassador denounces pending vote by Canadian MPs on Uighur genocide
OTTAWA - China's envoy to Canada is telling Canadian parliamentarians to butt out of his country's internal affairs through their pending vote on declaring a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in ...
Feb 20, 2021
Canadian tennis star BIanca Andreescu pulls out of Adelaide event with leg injury
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu has pulled out of the upcoming Adelaide International outdoor hard court tournament with a leg injury. News of Andreescu's decision came two days after she was de...
Feb 20, 2021