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Nishikori loses focus but not match to advance at US Open
NEW YORK - Kei Nishikori lost his focus. At least he didn't lose the match. The seventh seed from Japan dropped a set, blew a lead in another and let four match points slip away before finally downing...
Aug 28, 2019
Loon Lake officer wins bronze at international baseball tournament
Loon Lake Const. Heather Healey returned from Mexico with a bronze medal and the chance to once again play in the Women's Baseball World Cup in 2020.Canada faced host team Mexico at the Women's Baseba...
Aug 28, 2019 Heather Healey played for Team Canada at the Women's Baseball World Cup qualifier tournament. The team faced host Mexico and walked away with bronze. (Submitted photo/Heather Healey)
Back at US Open, Serena beats Sharapova for 19th time in row
NEW YORK - Serena Williams was not about to let Maria Sharapova make a match of this. So facing a break point early in the second set, Williams conjured up a backhand passing shot so good, so powerful...
Aug 28, 2019
The unusual suspects: British Columbia's middle-class gang problem
SURREY, B.C. - At the end of a tranquil cul-de-sac in a pleasant neighbourhood, a tall stucco house overlooks a well-kept lawn and lush flowerbeds. The home is in the Metro Vancouver city of Surr...
Aug 28, 2019
First arrests made as Loon Lake RCMP work to suppress gang activity
The first arrests have been made as officers in Loon Lake work on a project to suppress gang activity and drug sales in the community. On Aug. 18, 29-year-old Matthew Belly from Onion Lake and Nicole ...
Aug 28, 2019
Placido Domingo concert opening sports complex in Hungary
SZEGED, Hungary - Opera legend Placido Domingo was set to appear Wednesday at a concert in southern Hungary to inaugurate a sports and youth complex for a local Catholic diocese, continuing his calend...
Aug 28, 2019
Actor McConaughey named professor at University of Texas
AUSTIN, Texas - Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university's Department of Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey h...
Aug 28, 2019
Family identifies man involved in RCMP shooting
Family members have used social media to identify the man who was shot and killed during a confrontation with RCMP officers on the Fishing Lake First Nation on Tuesday.On Wednesday, various social med...
Aug 28, 2019 Lucien Silverquill. (Facebook)
Co-accused in Jonson homicide awaiting completion of bail supervision report
A co-accused in the homicide of Mark Douglas Jonson returned to North Battleford Provincial Court via closed-circuit television Wednesday.David Keller is facing a charge of first degree murder. The 47...
Aug 28, 2019 Mark Douglas Jonson was found dead in a home on 15 Ave. and 100 St on July 5. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Court orders women accused of defaming author to share emails, online posts
VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded author Steven Galloway access to emails between a woman who accused him of sexual assault and staff at the University of British Columbia in&nbs...
Aug 28, 2019