By Rob Maaddi The Associated Press Ryan Leaf spent most of his time in prison alone and angry until a military veteran persuaded the former No. 2 overall NFL draft pick to stop self-loathing long enough to help fellow inmates learn to read. Now the once-star quarterback who is widely […]
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By Monika Scislowska The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Maria Mostowska was a young pediatric nurse when the Warsaw Rising against the Nazi Germans occupying Poland broke out on Aug. 1, 1944. Seventy-five years on, she still vividly remembers how German troops put her against a wall and aimed a […]
By Danica Kirka The Associated Press LONDON — The Duchess of Sussex is launching a clothing line to support a charity that helps unemployed women find work. Meghan said the workwear collection would provide the charity, Smart Works, with continuity. The racks of clothing and array of shoes and bags […]
The Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Officials in an Arizona county hope to use a drone to make it easier to get vote tallies from tribal land deep within the Grand Canyon during next year’s election. Voting machines on the Havasupai reservation have sent tallies electronically in recent years. But […]
By Dan Healing The Canadian Press CALGARY — Three of Canada’s biggest oilsands producers are going directly to voters today to ask them to “influence the outcome” of big decisions concerning the oil and gas sector as a fall federal election looms. In full-page ads in about 30 English and […]
By Anne D’Innocenzio The Associated Press NEW YORK — It used to be considered the retailer’s crown jewel a large format store on a swank corridor that showed off the best of what a brand had to offer. But now the so-called flagship store is disappearing from high-profile shopping thoroughfares […]
VELDHUISEN-Born to Dan and Kayle, nee Koval, of Devlin, Ontario, a boy, Reid Daniel, weighing 6 lbs 3 oz on July 16, 2019 at LaVerendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
By Rick Callahan The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — The body of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger is expected to be exhumed in September from a concrete-encased grave at an Indianapolis cemetery more than 85 years after he was killed by FBI agents outside a Chicago theatre. The upcoming exhumation could […]
The Canadian Press CALGARY — TC Energy Corp. says it is selling two Ontario natural gas-fired power plants and a 50 per cent interest in a third to a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation Inc. for about $2.87 billion. The deal through its wholly owned subsidiary, TransCanada Energy Ltd., includes […]
By Aleksandra Sagan The Canadian Press Shoppers at Sobeys Inc. grocery stores will soon need to bring their own totes or lug their purchases home in paper bags as the chain moves to phase out plastic bags by February 2020. Canadians go through hundreds of millions of single-use plastic bags […]
