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AP source: David Phelps agrees to $1.75M deal with Blue Jays
TORONTO - Right-hander David Phelps and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a $1.75 million, one-year contract a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on c...
Feb 11, 2021
Man, dog, killed in chain-reaction crash as semi stops on highway east of Vancouver
HOPE, B.C. - Police say a crash that killed one person and injured dozens more east of Vancouver on Wednesday began with a report of a semi-truck stopped in the S-curves on a mountainous highway in "t...
Feb 11, 2021
Ottawa to define "prior consent" through dialogue with First Nations: Lametti
OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti says Ottawa can build a shared understanding of free, prior and informed consent with Indigenous Peoples into a new law to implement the United Nations Declarat...
Feb 11, 2021
Epstein warden now running new prison despite ongoing probe
WASHINGTON - The warden who ran the beleaguered federal jail when disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself has been put in charge of another prison despite an ongoing federal investigation a...
Feb 11, 2021
Rioters acted on Trump's 'orders,' Democrats say in trial
WASHINGTON - House Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump's impeachment said Thursday the Capitol invaders believed they were acting on "the president's orders" and reflected his violent rhetoric when the...
Feb 11, 2021
Study: Smaller cars may be why crashes injure women more
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The smaller, lighter vehicles that women more often drive, and the types of crashes they get into, may explain why they are much more likely to suffer a serious injury in a collision...
Feb 11, 2021
GOP attacks Dems' $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill from all angles
WASHINGTON - Republicans are attacking the Democrats' $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package as too costly, economically damaging and overtly partisan, an all-angles attempt to derail new President Joe...
Feb 11, 2021
Biden hopes infrastructure can bridge partisan divide
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is hoping that launching an effort to build roads and bridges can help to unite Democrats and Republicans in a time of sharp partisan divisions. Biden met with lawmake...
Feb 11, 2021
New trial in ex-football hero's killing can't be for murder
NEW ORLEANS - The new trial for the man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 shooting death of a former NFL player following a traffic dispute cannot include a murder charge, a Louisiana judge has ru...
Feb 11, 2021
B.C., Kamloops set records for most overdose deaths in a year
VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief coroner says the province recorded the most deaths ever in a single year due to an unnatural cause, with 1,716 lives lost to illicit drug overdoses in 2020.Lisa Lap...
Feb 11, 2021
