By Tami Abdollah And Brandon Bailey The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The extraordinary legal fight pitting the Obama administration against technology giant Apple Inc. ended unexpectedly after the FBI said it used a mysterious method without Apple’s help to hack into a California mass shooter’s iPhone. Left unanswered, however, were […]
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By Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Prosecutors are rarely held accountable for misconduct and mistakes that have left innocent people imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit, according to report Tuesday by a non-profit group that investigates possible wrongful convictions. The Innocence Project’s report coincides with the […]
By Menelaos Hadjicostis And Hamza Hendawi The Associated Press LARNACA, Cyprus — An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane during a routine domestic flight to Cairo and forced it to land on the island of Cyprus on Tuesday has surrendered and was taken into custody after he released all […]
By Linda Nguyen The Canadian Press TORONTO — Three years ago, Erik Dohnberg was working at the Genius Bar at an Apple store in London, Ont. He’d been there for 10 months after graduating with an information and media studies degree from Western University when he decided he wanted more. […]
By Erika Kinetz The Associated Press WENZHOU, China — The email seemed unremarkable: a routine request by Mattel Inc.’s chief executive for a new vendor payment to China. It was well-timed, arriving on Thursday, April 30, during a tumultuous period for the Los-Angeles based maker of Barbie dolls. Barbie was […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press We all know that eating fish several times a week is a healthy goal. But a lot of otherwise accomplished home cooks still find cooking fish a bit intimidating. The biggest worry? Drying it out. I’d love to say that this fear is unfounded, […]
Heather Latter Deb Cornell displayed her Rainy River Elk Company products at the Clover Valley Farmers’ Market’s annual Easter Market on Saturday—the final market at the McIrvine Road location. The farmers’ market announced earlier this month that it would be closing its doors, and selling the land and buildings, due […]
The Canadian Press AUSTIN, Man.—RCMP say an autopsy has confirmed that a Manitoba boy whose body was found in a creek Saturday drowned. Chase Martens walked away from his family home near Austin last Tuesday—prompting an extensive search involving hundreds of people. An autopsy by the Office of the Chief […]
The Canadian PressDirk Meissner VICTORIA—A remote undersea glider equipped with acoustic sensors is patrolling deep-water canyons off the west coast of Vancouver Island in a bid to set up a traffic alert system to prevent large ships from crashing into whales. University of Victoria researchers launched the glider off Flores […]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAL-NEV-ARI, Nev.—Buying your own town is as easy as buying 500 acres of vacant land located just 70 miles south of Las Vegas from the founder of a place called Cal-Nev-Ari. Nancy Kidwell is offering the entirety of her town for just $8 million. She tried to […]
Matt O’Brien THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PROVIDENCE, R.I.—When former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence’s high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city’s youngest children, he said he hoped the pilot could take root in Rhode Island and spread across […]
Press Release In keeping with Ontario’s commitment to openness and transparency, the government has released the salaries of Ontario Public Service and broader public sector employees who were paid $100,000 or more in 2015. The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act requires most organizations that receive public funding from the province […]
