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Raptors rout Knicks again, win 117-92 without Leonard
NEW YORK - Pascal Siakam scored 31 points and the Toronto Raptors routed the New York Knicks for the second time in 11 nights, winning 117-92 on Thursday night to sweep the season series. Toronto rest...
Mar 28, 2019
Blue Jackets jump into playoff spot with win over Canadiens
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice, Sergei Bobrovsky had 28 saves and the Columbus Blue Jackets moved into an Eastern Division wild-card spot with a 6-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens o...
Mar 28, 2019
Powell scores 20 to lead Toronto Raptors to 112-103 victory over Bulls
TORONTO - With just handful of games to go in the regular season, Raptors coach Nick Nurse says certain players have to earn their minutes as he refines his playoff rotations. Norman Powell is on...
Mar 28, 2019
Correction: Empire Cast Member-Attack-Police story
CHICAGO - In a story March 26 about Chicago's police superintendent and mayor being angered by prosecutors' surprise decision to drop charges against Jussie Smollett, The Associated Press reported an ...
Mar 28, 2019
Denis Shapovalov joins fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in Miami semis
MIAMI - Denis Shapovalov has continued a marvellous March for Canadian teen tennis players. The 19-year-old native of Richmond Hill, Ont., joined fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, 18, in the semi...
Mar 28, 2019
Save The Children: 7 killed in airstrike on Yemen hospital
A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike Tuesday killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said. The international aid organization, which supports...
Mar 28, 2019
Blue Jays' Charlie Montoyo pleased with MLB managerial debut despite loss
TORONTO - Charlie Montoyo anxiously waited at the top of the home dugout until he got a pat on his shoulder telling him that it was his turn to go on to the field at Rogers Centre. The 53-year-old Mon...
Mar 28, 2019
Baltimore mayor says her $500K book deal was a 'mistake'
Baltimore's mayor on Thursday described a lucrative arrangement to sell her self-published children's books to a university-based health care system as a "regrettable mistake" and offered apologies fo...
Mar 28, 2019
Regina Police release RCMP review of Nadine Machiskinic death investigation
REGINA - The Regina Police Service has released an RCMP report into how it investigated the death of an Indigenous woman who fell 10 storeys down a laundry chute. Nadine Machiskinic, who was 29,&...
Mar 28, 2019
Canola council meets with trade minister
Representatives rom the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) met Thursday with Canada's trade diversification minister, and to no one's surprise, China's suspension of Canadian Canola exports was the focus ...
Mar 28, 2019 (File photo/ farmnewsNOW Staff)