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Rescue crews dismantle mall to get at victims
Rescue crews began dismantling a partially collapsed mall late Tuesday night in this northern Ontario city in an effort to rescue victims despite ...
Sakic, Sundin among four selected for Hockey Hall
Joe Sakic was four years old when his father took him to his first hockey game. And his life-long love affair with the sport began. The stylish center ...
Elder fraud: One couple's losses and hard lessons
With their elderly parents seated across the octagonal oak table, Donna and Jim Parker were back in the kitchen they knew so well — the hutch along ...
Oilers take Russian F Yakupov with NHL's top pick
The Edmonton Oilers are getting tired of going first in the NHL draft and Nail Yakupov knows part of his job is to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Yakupov taken by Oilers with top pick in NHL draft
Nail Yakupov is ready to live with the spotlight that comes with being a No. 1 pick. On the night he was chosen first in the NHL draft, he had to ...
No hard keyboard for first of new BlackBerrys
The first BlackBerry device running Research In Motion Ltd.'s new operating software will not have a physical keyboard, only a touch-screen one.
Pittsburgh's Malkin takes MVP honors at NHL Awards
Geno and the Swedes were hockey's biggest winners in Vegas. Pittsburgh center Evgeni Malkin won the Hart Trophy on Wednesday night, becoming the NHL's ...
Struggling BlackBerry maker begins job cuts
Struggling BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said Wednesday it has started laying off employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving ...
London Games to be first social media Olympics
Tweet this: The London Games will be the first Olympics told in 140 characters or less. The London Games will be the most tweeted, liked and tagged ...
At Cirque du Soleil, 2 acrobats juggle parenthood
It's hard enough for the parents of a toddler to balance work and home. So imagine how hard it is if the work itself is all about balancing.
Canada suspect in body parts case faces hearing
A Canadian actor suspected in the dismemberment of a Chinese student faces his first hearing Tuesday after returning to Canada via military transport ...
Radiohead drum technician killed in stage collapse
Investigators combed through the wreckage of a Toronto stage Sunday to determine what caused the structure to come crashing down ahead of a Radiohead ...
Police: Canada suspect carried $330,000 in cash
The man wanted in an armored car heist at a Canadian university that left three armed guards dead was carrying $330,000 in cash and no passport when ...
Stage collapses before Radiohead concert; 1 dead
A massive stage collapse hours before a Radiohead concert was to begin left one person dead and three others injured, officials said.
Ex-Indian army major takes flight, kills family
At 6:15 a.m. last Saturday, Avtar Singh dialed 911 from his home in the Central Valley farming town 200 miles north of Los Angeles. He told police he ...
Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls
There was "wind coming from every which way," mist so powerful it clouded his vision and an unfamiliar wire beneath him, but daredevil Nik Wallenda ...
HL:Armoured-car murder suspect's mother pleads for her son's surrender@
EDMONTON — The mother of a young security guard who police believe killed three co-workers and grievously wounded a fourth begged her boy to turn ...
AP Photos: Wallenda's trek across Niagara Falls
With thousands of fans riveted on his every step, daredevil Nik Wallenda walks 1,800 feet on a tightrope spanning across the mist-fogged Niagara Falls
Military star power endorses high seas treaty
Proponents of a treaty governing the high seas rolled out military star power Thursday to try to lift the prospects for a long-spurned pact that faces ...
Police: Newly found body parts sent from Montreal
Body parts mailed to two Vancouver schools were mailed from Montreal and are thought to be linked to the killing and dismemberment of a Chinese ...