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Minor injuries after driver strikes highway signage trailer on Hwy 16
Two people were injured after a driver ran into a highway signage trailer on Highway 16 Monday afternoon west of Delmas. RCMP said an eastbound vehicle struck a highway signage trailer that was attach...
Jul 30, 2019
Brazilian police dismiss rape claim against Neymar
SAO PAULO - Brazilian police say they've decided there are no grounds to bring rape charges against soccer star Neymar. And they're investigating whether his accuser filed a false report. Sao Paulo po...
Jul 30, 2019
Latest round in northern Manitoba hunt for B.C. murder suspects proves fruitless
YORK LANDING, Man. - The chief of a remote northern Manitoba Indigenous community says a massive police manhunt there for two young British Columbia homicide suspects has ended without success, althou...
Jul 30, 2019
A$AP Rocky pleads not guilty as Sweden assault trial opens
HELSINKI - American rapper A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty as he went on trial for assault Tuesday in Sweden, where he has spent nearly a month in jail and his legal troubles that started with a street ...
Jul 30, 2019
Lebanon music festival cancels show after Christian pressure
BEIRUT - A multi-day international music festival in Lebanon said Tuesday that it's cancelled a planned concert by a popular Mideast rock band whose lead singer is openly gay, apparently caving to pre...
Jul 30, 2019
A star is born at the Tour: 22-year-old champion Egan Bernal
PARIS - The skies over Paris were yellow, ignited by a glorious golden sunset. The partying fans' shirts were yellow, Colombians making themselves at home on the Champs-Elysees. But the yellow that co...
Jul 30, 2019
Rescue Janna! STARS fundraiser lands in the Battlefords
In September, Janna Dutton will trade in her business suit for a flight suit to raise money for STARS Air Ambulance.She will get picked up and be dropped in the middle of a field on Sept. 5 and using ...
Jul 30, 2019 (supplied photo/rescuejanna.com)
LLRIB honours Chief James Roberts by erecting headstone at gravesite
The chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) who signed Treaty 6 was honoured Monday during a special ceremony where his gravesite was marked with a headstone. "There was a lot of children presen...
Jul 30, 2019 Little Hills was the site of a ceremony to place a headstone at the gravesite of Chief James Roberts. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art, dies in Paris
CARACAS, Venezuela - Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for his work with colour and the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris. He was 95. "Your love, ...
Jul 30, 2019
Parade kicks off P.A. Ex 2019
The Prince Albert Exhibition exploded onto the streets of P.A. with the playful pageantry of the annual parade; the customary kick-off event for a week of fun.Monday evening the parade route, which ra...
Jul 30, 2019 All the colour and fun of the parade to kick off the Prince Albert Exhibition Monday evening (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)