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Blue Jays sign veteran outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to one-year deal
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have signed outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to a one-year major-league contract. The 32-year-old was released by Boston on Thursday. He has a .210 average with 19 doubles...
Aug 09, 2022
Man convicted of fatally shooting his 2 daughters in Texas
DALLAS (AP) - A suburban Dallas man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in 2008 was convicted Tuesday in their killings. Yaser Sa...
Aug 09, 2022
Man at centre of Saskatchewan Amber Alert a convicted child sex offender: records
REGINA - Court records show a man believed to be at the centre of an Amber Alert for two missing children is a convicted child sex offender. The documents say 50-year-old Benjamin Martin Moore, now of...
Aug 09, 2022
Jury picked in 2nd trial in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - After questions about guns, politics and COVID-19, a jury was selected Tuesday for the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitm...
Aug 09, 2022
Truck driver acquitted in deaths of 7 motorcyclists in 2019
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in a head-on collision in northern New Hampshire. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26,...
Aug 09, 2022
Police: Suspect in 4 Muslim men's killings detained
Albuquerque police say they have detained the "primary suspect" in the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico's largest city. The city's police chief on Tuesday announced the update on Twitter. Chi...
Aug 09, 2022
Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing
GREENWOOD, Miss. - A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about...
Aug 09, 2022
Canada's Rebecca Marino falls in opening match at National Bank Open
TORONTO - Canada's Rebecca Marino lost 6-3, 6-7 (5), 4-6 to China's Zheng Qinwen in the opening round of the National Bank Open on Tuesday. The Vancouver native entered the tournament coming off a qua...
Aug 09, 2022
Stable weather allows fire crews to focus on containment of B.C. wildfires
Crews battling the wildfire that has forced the evacuation of more than 500 properties in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are taking advantage of calm winds and stable conditions to bolster fire ...
Aug 09, 2022
Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids, but acknowledges that providing new servi...
Aug 09, 2022
