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Former NBA star Charles Barkley donates $1M to Miles College
FAIRFIELD, Ala. - Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to historically black Miles College. The Basketball Hall of Famer and former Auburn star told interim president Bobbie Knight about the donatio...
Jan 09, 2020
Blazers boost back-end with Zabransky, deal Lang to Moose Jaw
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers have strengthened their back-end with an import-for-import trade.Kamloops acquired 19-year-old defenceman Libor Zabransky from the Moose Jaw Warriors in exchange for 18...
Jan 09, 2020 Libor Zabransky (Image Credit: WHL)
Canadian world junior players on the move ahead of CHL trade deadlines
The Moncton Wildcats showed this week they are serious about chasing the Memorial Cup. Director of hockey operations Ritchie Thibeau proved as much by orchestrating five separate deals, including a bl...
Jan 09, 2020
After a month in Australia, two Manitoba fire experts arrive home
WINNIPEG - Some of the first Canadian wildfire experts to help out in Australia are back home. Gerry Rosset and Andrew Prokopchuk, two Manitoba conservation officers, landed at the Winn...
Jan 09, 2020
Accused in 2017 Kamloops standoff, shootout pleads guilty to several charges
KAMLOOPS - Several police officers were in Kamloops Provincial Court today as a suspect involved in an hours-long standoff in Kamloops in 2017 entered guilty pleas. Shane William Caron pleaded guilty ...
Jan 09, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Bombers' coach has sights set on winning another Grey Cup, not repeating
Mike O'Shea has moved on from the euphoria of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' 2019 Grey Cup victory. Winnipeg ended its dubious Grey Cup drought with a stunning 33-12 victory over the favoured Hamilto...
Jan 09, 2020
Official quits amid charges he paid women to give up babies
PHOENIX - An elected official in metro Phoenix resigned Tuesday, months after being charged with running a human smuggling operation that paid pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to give up their...
Jan 09, 2020
Police, Secret Service mum after new incident at Mar-a-Lago
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - There was an unspecified incident involving the Secret Service at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, but authorities would not say Tuesday what happened - the...
Jan 09, 2020
Iranian-Canadian man on day trip to U.S. day says he faced discrimination
VANCOUVER - Sam Sadr's first trip to the United States from his home in North Vancouver was supposed to be a relaxing getaway but he says his birth in Iran made him a target at the border, where ...
Jan 09, 2020
Alberta fires back at UN committee for criticism of energy megaprojects
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the United Nations is an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada's energy megaprojects. Sonya Savage, in a statem...
Jan 09, 2020
