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TV Raffle at Marguerite Riel Centre - Upcoming Dance
Come get your advance tickets and enter the draw for a 40" flatscreen smart TV! Every purchase of an advance tickets gets your name entered. You can also just buy tickets to enter the draw for $5.00 (...
Nov 06, 2019
Rapper accused of choking, biting woman in Atlanta
ATLANTA - A rapper is accused of choking and biting his girlfriend while in Atlanta. News outlets report Osiris Williams, also known as YK Osiris, was arrested Monday on a felony charge of aggravated ...
Nov 06, 2019
Quebec backtracks on changes to immigration program aimed at students
QUEBEC - The Quebec government is backtracking on proposed changes to a popular immigration program aimed at university students that would've seen many of them sent home. Immigration Minist...
Nov 06, 2019
UK reduces its terror threat level to 'substantial'
LONDON - Security officials downgraded Britain's terrorism threat level on Monday from "severe" to "substantial," with officials saying the country now sees an attack as "likely" rather than "highly l...
Nov 06, 2019
Toronto FC general manager Ali Curtis wants to win the right way
TORONTO - General manager Ali Curtis is happy to stay in the background as the MLS Cup final spotlight shines on Toronto FC. He wants just one thing Sunday when Toronto takes on the hometown Seattle S...
Nov 06, 2019
Alec Baldwin sues man who accused him of parking spot rage
NEW YORK - Alec Baldwin filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against the man who says Baldwin hit him in the face during an argument over a New York City parking space. Baldwin wrote in his lawsuit that ...
Nov 06, 2019
Legion poppy campaign underway ahead of Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day is less than a week away and members of the Melfort Legion are busy with preparations and their poppy campaign.The Legion poppy campaign is on until Monday in businesses around the com...
Nov 06, 2019 (Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW Staff)
Russia, US go toe-to-toe at anti-doping meeting
KATOWICE, Poland - The fight was about doping. The United States delivered haymakers. Russia came back with jabs. The proverbial blows were delivered Wednesday in a vast conference room in Poland duri...
Nov 06, 2019
US productivity falls for first time in nearly 4 years
WASHINGTON - American workers were less efficient in the July-September quarter, pushing down productivity for the first time since late 2015. The Labor Department said Wednesday that productivity, a ...
Nov 06, 2019
US child survivors of Mexico ambush saved by courage, mother
GALEANA, Mexico - The eight children, some mere infants, who survived the ambush in northern Mexico not only escaped the drug cartel gunmen who killed their mothers but managed to hide in the brush, w...
Nov 06, 2019