Category Archives: Canadian Press
Man gets life in prison plus 50 years in student's slaying
SAVANNAH, Tenn. - A Tennessee man avoided a possible death penalty by agreeing Saturday to a sentence of life in prison plus 50 years for the kidnapping, rape and killing of nursing student Holly Bobo...
Sep 25, 2017
Inmate wins order forcing Missouri prisons to ban smoking
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Missouri prisons have been ordered to eliminate smoking after an asthmatic inmate serving a life sentence for two murders won a court judgment. The Kansas City Star reports Missouri...
Sep 25, 2017
The Sun rises in new play about Murdoch's tabloid revolution
LONDON - Rupert Murdoch has power, wealth - and legions of detractors, who say the media mogul’s tabloids and TV stations have fueled crass celebrity culture, phone hacking and fake news. A new ...
Sep 25, 2017
EPA clarifies earlier FEMA statement on Texas toxic sites
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday it has recovered 517 containers filled with unidentified, potentially hazardous material found floating in or washed up along Texas waterwa...
Sep 25, 2017
Contractors accuse Iraq of shake downs to force tax payments
WASHINGTON - American military contractors operating in Iraq are accusing Baghdad of employing strong-arm tactics to make them pay exorbitant income taxes, a practice they’ve warned the Trump ad...
Sep 25, 2017
Defence Department: Hurricane relief around-the-clock
The U.S. Defence Department was working around the clock to deliver humanitarian assistance to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, even as the death toll climbed further across the Caribbean afte...
Sep 25, 2017
McCain calls brain cancer prognosis 'very poor'
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a “very poor prognosis” as he battles brain cancer. McCain underwent surgery in July for a brain tumour that was later found ...
Sep 25, 2017
Baghdad orders Kurdistan region to hand over borders, ports
BAGHDAD - Iraq’s central government in Baghdad ordered the country’s Kurdish region to hand over all border crossings and airports to federal government control late Sunday night, hours be...
Sep 25, 2017
Russia general killed in Syria fighting
MOSCOW - Russia’s Defence Ministry says a general has been killed in fighting in Syria. The ministry said Sunday that Lt. Gen. Valery Asapov “was at a command post of Syrian troops, assist...
Sep 25, 2017
Police: Tennessee church shooting suspect sent suicidal text
NASHVILLE - A man charged in a mass shooting at a Tennessee church expressed suicidal thoughts in June and had a volatile relationship with a woman that twice involved law enforcement this year, accor...
Sep 25, 2017