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Apple announces its long-awaited streaming TV service
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple announced a new streaming service, Apple TV Plus, which will house its original shows and movies and could compete with Netflix, Amazon and cable TV itself. Apple is making t...
Mar 27, 2019
Stars punch ticket to Round 2 with Game 7 win over Bombers
The Battlefords North Stars defeated the Flin Flon Bombers 4-1 Tuesday night at the NB Civic Centre to wrap up their first-round playoff series in Game 7, and punch their ticket to the second round. S...
Mar 27, 2019 Stars' goalie Joel Grzybowski, pictured here shaking hands with Bombers' forward Brandson Hein at the conclusion of two teams' seven-game series. Grzybowski kept Hein and the Bombers' offence to two goals or fewer in five of the seven games. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Man who stabbed Petra Kvitova gets 8-year prison term
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A man who stabbed two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in her home was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday. Radim Zondra, 33, was convicted of causing Kvitova s...
Mar 27, 2019
Israel, Gaza militants in 2nd day of cross-border fighting
JERUSALEM - Israeli aircraft bombed targets across the Gaza Strip and Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel early Tuesday, the second day of cross-border fighting that erupted in the last stretch o...
Mar 26, 2019
Heiress hoax scores woman celebrity treatment, and charges
NEW YORK - Anna Sorokin travelled in celebrity circles and tossed $100 tips - all the more reason to believe she was the German heiress she said she was. Prosecutors say the jet-set lifestyle and pric...
Mar 26, 2019
Ducks rookie Sam Steel notches first hat trick in 5-4 win over Canucks
VANCOUVER - Anaheim Ducks rookie Sam Steel posted his first NHL hat trick, leading his team to a 5-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. The Canucks clawed their way back from a 5-2 ...
Mar 26, 2019
Bobrovsky perfect, Dubois breaks slump as Blue Jackets blank Canucks
VANCOUVER - The scoring slump was over, but the questions remained for Pierre-Luc Dubois. Dubois had a goal and an assist as the Columbus Blue Jackets pounded the Vancouver Canucks 5-0 Sunday night to...
Mar 26, 2019
Raiders on the brink of snapping 15-year curse
RED DEER-The Prince Albert Raiders are in brand new territory now. After their 4-2 win over the Red Deer Rebels Tuesday at the Westerner Park Centrium in Red Deer, the Raiders take a 3-0 lead in the s...
Mar 26, 2019 Raiders forward Noah Gregor scored two goals in Prince Albert's 4-2 win over the Red Deer Rebels Tuesday at the Centrium in Red Deer. Submitted photo, Rob Wallator/rawimpressions.ca
Justice sought for 4 Dutch journalists killed in El Salvador
It was 1982, the height of the civil war in El Salvador. Four Dutch TV journalists linked up with leftist rebels near the town of El Paraiso, which had an army base on its outskirts. Planning to spend...
Mar 26, 2019
New Zealand to probe role of spies, guns in mosque attacks
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand will hold a top-level inquiry into the massacre of 50 people at two Christchurch mosques that will examine what roles guns, social media and spy agencies played p...
Mar 26, 2019