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Murder charge laid after Vernon woman stabbed to death in England
VERNON, B.C. - A man has been charged with murder following the death of a young Vernon woman in a suburb of London, England.Ashley Wadsworth, 19, died from a reported stabbing in Chelmsford on Tuesda...
Feb 3, 2022
Ex-Chicago officer who killed Laquan McDonald leaves prison
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke left prison on Thursday after serving less than half of his nearly seven-year sentence for killing Black teenager Laquan McDonald - an early...
Feb 3, 2022
Quebec court says justice minister's intervention on judge bilingualism illegal
MONTREAL - The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that the province's justice minister does not get to decide whether judges can be required to speak English as well as French. The case was centred aroun...
Feb 3, 2022
New blockade in Alberta cutting off traffic to U.S. border crossing
MILK RIVER, ALBERTA - RCMP say a second blockade on a highway leading to the main United States border crossing in Alberta has choked off traffic. "Protesters have stopped traffic from going southboun...
Feb 3, 2022
KGHM to 'devote more attention' to relaunching Ajax project: minority owner
KAMLOOPS - The owners of the proposed Ajax copper-gold mine project south of Kamloops says, four years after the project was rejected by the federal and provincial government, they are ready to ramp u...
Feb 3, 2022
Bayern Munich says Davies is fine but "bored" as he recovers from myocarditis
Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann says Canadian star Alphonso Davies is fine but bored as he recovers from myocarditis following a bout with COVID-19. Bayern said Jan. 5 that the 21-year-old fro...
Feb 3, 2022
Canadian military cuts dozens of unvaccinated troops, puts hundreds more on notice
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says dozens of Canadian Armed Forces members who refused to get vaccinated have now been kicked out of the military. Release proceedings have started for hu...
Feb 3, 2022
Police in England say young Vernon, B.C., woman murdered in Essex, man in custody
Police in Essex, England, say a 19-year-old British Columbia woman has been murdered and a man is under arrest. A statement from Essex Police says 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth of Vernon died Tuesday, ...
Feb 3, 2022
Poland, Czech governments sign deal on lignite mine
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The prime ministers of Poland and the Czech Republic say they have signed an agreement settling a long-running dispute over a lignite mine on the border of the two countries. Pol...
Feb 3, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Do we really need cannabis delivered with Skip the Dishes?
REMEMBER WHEN those first legal cannabis stores arrived in 2018? Kamloops had the very first one, and when it was set to open, people came from the Okanagan and the Coast to get in line with locals, m...
Feb 3, 2022
