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Sundance Film Festival co-founder pleads guilty to sex abuse
AMERICAN FORK, Utah - A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual abuse of a child. Sterling Van Wagenen...
May 02, 2019
Mexican band Cafe Tacvba's instruments, equipment stolen
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican rock band Cafe Tacvba said its instruments and other equipment were stolen and two crew members briefly detained in a highway robbery early Thursday. In a statement, the band...
May 02, 2019
Blazers 2019 bantam draft picks
The Kamloops Blazers selected nine players in the 2019 WHL Bantam held in Red Deer, AB on May 2, 2019. For the first time in franchise history, the Blazers selected two players in the first round of t...
May 02, 2019
Blazers lead with Lindgren, take nine players in WHL draft
RED DEER, AB - The WHL bantam draft has wrapped up in Red Deer, with the Kamloops Blazers taking nine players.With their first pick, seventh overall, Kamloops selected defenceman Mats Lindgren of the ...
May 02, 2019 Mats Lindgren (Image Credit: Burnaby Winter Club)
Senate committee recommends Beyak suspension over letters on Indigenous Peoples
OTTAWA - The Senate's ethics committee recommended Tuesday that Sen. Lynn Beyak be suspended without pay over incendiary letters about Indigenous Peoples she posted to her website....
May 02, 2019
Facebook bans Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones for hate speech
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and others from its main service and from Instagram, saying they violated the company's ban against hate and violence. The company said ...
May 02, 2019
Trial starts for repairman charged in LA, Chicago killings
LOS ANGELES - Opening statements began Thursday in the Los Angeles murder trial of an air conditioning repairman charged with the stabbing deaths of two women and a suburban Chicago teenager for sexua...
May 02, 2019
Canada's airlines want longer runway for security-screening overhaul
OTTAWA - The federal plan to revamp Canada's air-security screening system is running into headwinds from major airlines, which are urging the government to take things slow to get the chang...
May 02, 2019
From Parliament to Pyramid Power, 8-time Stanley Cup winner Red Kelly did it all
Hockey Hall of Famer Red Kelly packed several careers into his lifetime - sometimes at the same time. But hockey was always at the heart of the things for the smooth-skating Kelly. Kelly won eight Sta...
May 02, 2019
Israel says bots promoting boycott of Eurovision
JERUSALEM - Israel says it has uncovered a network of bots and fake Twitter accounts urging a boycott of the upcoming Israeli-hosted Eurovision song contest. Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs sai...
May 02, 2019
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