Category Archives: Canadian Press

Elderly deaths: Call for generators in Florida nursing homes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida’s nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Sc...
Sep 22, 2017
Russia: Relations with US poor over 'Russo-phobic hysteria'
Russia’s foreign minister said Friday the downturn in relations with the United States began with the Obama administration’s “small-hearted” and “revengeful” action...
Sep 22, 2017

Deaf man's family calls for Oklahoma City officer's arrest
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma City police officer who killed a deaf man should be arrested and investigations into the shooting need to be launched on the state and federal levels, the man’s famil...
Sep 22, 2017

Early Halloween highway horror: Flaming pumpkins jam traffic
SAN ANTONIO, Fla. - In an early Halloween highway horror, a truckload of burning pumpkins blocked traffic on a Florida interstate. Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Steve Gaskins said in a news release that...
Sep 22, 2017
Indiana man locked in cave for 60 hours, forgotten by group
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A 19-year-old man who spent 60 hours locked alone inside a gated southern Indiana cave says he feels lucky to be alive. Indiana University freshman Lukas Cavar was on a spelunking ...
Sep 22, 2017
Officer pleading guilty to lying to fly armed with weapon
BOSTON - A Boston police detective is pleading guilty to lying to federal officials so he could fly armed on personal trips and allow a friend to avoid going through airport security. The U.S. attorne...
Sep 22, 2017
San Francisco unveils memorial to WWII "comfort women"
SAN FRANCISCO - Now 89, former World War II “comfort woman” Yongsoo Lee clutched a microphone in one hand Friday in a park outside San Francisco’s Chinatown, thrust her other clinche...
Sep 22, 2017
Pence targets Democratic Indiana senator with tax speech
INDIANAPOLIS - Vice-President Mike Pence returned to his home state on Friday to make the Republican case for an overhaul of the federal tax code, while calling on Democratic Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly...
Sep 22, 2017

Federal government notifies 21 states of election hacking
The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year’s presidential election. The notification came roughly a year after U.S...
Sep 22, 2017
Guatemalans travel to Oklahoma to honour 1st US martyr
OKARCHE, Okla. - Few religious pilgrimages lead down a dusty, unpaved Oklahoma road past grazing horses, metal barns and towering wind turbines in the distance. But the unusual destination of this 2,0...
Sep 22, 2017