Category Archives: Canadian Press

KAMPALA, Uganda - When Martin Owor, a father of six, told his wife he was considering having a vasectomy, she told him it was out of the question. How would they live as husband and wife after his sur...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Half of Brazilians want former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to win next year’s election and return to the office he occupied between 2003 and 2010. The other half wants...

TOLEDO, Ohio - The armed robbery suspect hiding out in a camper in rural Michigan heard state troopers closing in, so he dashed into a field and crouched among the 6-foot-tall cornstalks. What he didn...

RICHMOND, Va. - Candidates in the country’s only two races for governor are in the final sprint before an Election Day that promises to illustrate how much - or how little - things have changed ...

HILDALE, Utah - In a place where political contests are virtually unknown, the campaign signs offer the latest hint that a polygamous group is losing its grip on this remote red rock community straddl...

PHILADELPHIA - A former prosecutor claims his decision in 2005 not to charge Bill Cosby with drugging and molesting a woman led to the comedian paying his accuser a settlement “well into the mil...

UPPER DARBY, Pa. - Police in Pennsylvania have tweeted a photo of a Halloween beer can costume to make underage revelers think officers would be staked out in disguises at parties. Upper Darby police ...

NEW LONDON, N.H. - Holding manila folders filled with pages of her handwritten reports, Dr. Anna Konopka insists her system for keeping track of her patients’ medical conditions and various pres...

SAN FRANCISCO - California Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers asked the U.S. government Friday for $7.4 billion to help rebuild after a cluster of fires tore through the heart of wine country, killing mor...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. military for the first time has conducted two airstrikes against Islamic State group fighters in Somalia, where the extremists are a growing presence in a country long th...