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Pass to the past: NFL applies for historic Duluth Eskimos trademark
EDMONTON - The National Football League may be bringing back a historic team name that will have a familiar - and occasionally controversial - ring to Canadian gridiron fans. Records from the Uni...
May 02, 2019
Trial over Arkansas' use of execution drug nearing end
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A federal trial over Arkansas' use of a sedative in lethal injections is wrapping up in Little Rock following testimony from the state's prisons director. Department of Correction ...
May 02, 2019
UFC lightweight (Raging) Al Iaquinta has skills inside and outside the cage
(Raging) Al Iaquinta can knock you out or find you a new home. Ranked fourth among UFC lightweights, the 32-year-old from Wantagh, N.Y., works in real estate when not cage-fighting. "It's not tax...
May 02, 2019
Water to stay high but second round of floods not expected: Goodale
OTTAWA - Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale toured neighbourhoods in east Ottawa today where he told one resident he doesn't expect a second wave of flooding like what the area experienced i...
May 02, 2019
Women's hockey stars announce boycott in demand for 1 league
Unhappy with the status quo, more than 200 of the world's top female hockey players declared Thursday they will not compete in North America next season in a dramatic attempt to establish a single, ec...
May 02, 2019
Women's hockey stars announce boycott in demand for 1 league
Unhappy with the status quo, more than 200 of the world's top female hockey players declared Thursday they will not compete in North America next season in a dramatic attempt to establish a single, ec...
May 02, 2019
Quebec, N.B. hope worst flooding is over while Ontario situation 'potentially worsening'
STE-MARTHE-SUR-LE-LAC, Que. - Robert Pepin's mobile home sits crookedly on its foundation, the front door is broken, the insulation and deck are damaged beyond repair. But the 70-year-old re...
May 02, 2019
Blazers take defenceman with first pick in WHL bantam draft
KAMLOOPS - The Western Hockey League bantam draft is underway. Blazers had the seventh overall pick and took defenceman Mats Lindgren from North Vancouver. The Winnipeg Ice had the first overall pick,...
May 02, 2019
Damages of $20 million awarded against obituary website in class action ruling
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A judge has ordered an online obituary site to pay $20 million in damages for the unauthorized use of notices and photographs taken from websites of Canadian funeral homes and ...
May 02, 2019
Secluded Baltimore mayor to make announcement amid scandal
BALTIMORE - The lawyer for Baltimore's mayor is making an announcement amid growing pressure for the city's top leader to resign over a scandal involving her self-published children's books. Mayor Cat...
May 02, 2019
