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'Stabilizing force': Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck putting in MVP-calibre season
Connor Hellebuyck will knock on Scott Arniel's door or pull his head coach aside for a brief chat. The Winnipeg Jets goaltender usually has one specific question before a road trip. "What days we have...
Apr 04, 2025

The US must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, judge says
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El S...
Apr 04, 2025

Commissioner in high spirits as Canadian Premier League kicks off its seventh season
Canadian Premier League commissioner Mark Noonan is in high spirits as the league kicks off its seventh season this weekend. "I feel great, but never satisfied," he said in an interview. "We still hav...
Apr 04, 2025

A look at the eight-team Canadian Premier League as it kicks off Season 7
A look at the Canadian Premier League, which kicks off its eighth season Saturday: Schedule: Each of the eight teams play 28 games (14 home and 14 away) during the regular season, meeting the seven ot...
Apr 04, 2025

Dodgers' Freddie Freeman lands on injured list following fall in his shower at home
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Freddie Freeman's fall landed him on the injured list. The Los Angeles Dodgers placed their star slugger on the 10-day IL on Thursday after the World Series MVP sprained his surgica...
Apr 04, 2025

Capitals goalie Logan Thompson is expected to miss at least a couple of games with injury
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson is expected to miss at least a couple of games because of injury, coach Spencer Carbery said Friday. "I won't call him day-to-day," ...
Apr 04, 2025

Defensive back Deontai Williams willing to play wherever Lions want him to in '25
Deontai Williams will report to the B.C. Lions' training camp next month with an open mind. The six-foot, 205-pound Florida native signed a two-year deal with B.C. in free agency after spending his fi...
Apr 04, 2025

PETERS: 'Spend now versus spend later' is a debate worth having
KAMLOOPS COUNCIL faced the age-old conundrum this week - pay now or pay later?Council was debating a suite of proposals from staff to knock down the projected tax increase from north of 9 per cent to ...
Apr 04, 2025

Quebec's high court rejects random police stops ahead of Supreme Court hearing
MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government's request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme ...
Apr 04, 2025

North Carolina judges side with colleague in his Supreme Court election dispute over ballots
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina appeals court sided Friday with the trailing candidate in a close state Supreme Court election from November, ruling that tens of thousands of ballots were wrongl...
Apr 04, 2025

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