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Cavalry FC eliminated from CONCACAF Champions Cup after loss in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY - Substitute Guillermo Martinez scored twice in the second half to lift Mexico's Pumas UNAM to a 2-0 win over 10-man Cavalry FC on Thursday, knocking the Canadian Premier League champion o...
Feb 13, 2025
Vanisova, Hughes lead explosive Charge to 8-3 win over Frost
OTTAWA - The offensively-starved Ottawa Charge feasted on the Minnesota Frost for an 8-3 slump-busting triumph on Thursday night at TD Place. Ottawa had scored just eight goals in its previous seven P...
Feb 13, 2025
Fans in Montreal boo American national anthem at 4 Nations Face-Off
MONTREAL - A number of fans attending the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in Montreal booed the American national anthem ahead of Thursday's game against Finland. The Bell Centre crowd also loudly jeere...
Feb 13, 2025
Texas executes man for 2004 double killing in a dispute with his strip club manager
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row t...
Feb 13, 2025
Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jim Guy Tucker, who became Arkansas' governor when Bill Clinton was elected president but was later forced from office after being convicted during the Whitewater investigatio...
Feb 13, 2025
Texas judge fines New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A Texas judge on Thursday fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first challenges in the U.S. to "shield laws" enacted in Democ...
Feb 13, 2025
Source: Stymied in bids to move Insigne, Toronto FC prepared to have him sit
Things have come to a head between Toronto FC and Lorenzo Insigne. Insigne, whose salary of US$15.4 million last season was second only to Lionel Messi in Major League Soccer, has been told that he do...
Feb 13, 2025
Hockey Canada brass looks ahead after another world junior disappointment
MONTREAL - Scott Salmond took some time to reflect. The Hockey Canada executive watched the men's under-20 team disappoint with consecutive fifth-place finishes at the world junior hockey championship...
Feb 13, 2025
Two men arrested for fake taxi scam targeting B.C. universities, shopping centres
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Metro Vancouver Transit Police say two men from Ontario have been arrested for taking part in a fake taxi scam that targeted people at universities and shopping centres in B.C....
Feb 13, 2025
Florida man is executed for the 1997 killing of a couple whose toddler witnessed the attack
STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm as the couple's toddler looked on was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year. James...
Feb 13, 2025
