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WHITEHORSE - Dennis Fentie, who served as Yukon premier for nine years, died Friday at the age of 68. Fentie served as the territory's seventh premier from 2002 to 2011 as leader o...

MINNEAPOLIS - A half-brother of the late rock superstar Prince has died, leaving five Prince siblings to share in the musician's fortune. An attorney for Alfred Jackson, Asa Weston, said Friday that t...

MINNEAPOLIS - A prosecutor has filed charges against an 83-year-old man who crashed his van into a Minneapolis bus shelter and injured five people. George Reeves Jensen of Champlin is charged with cri...

NASHVILLE - A Tennessee inmate is leaving death row eight months before what would have been his execution date, after a judge approved an agreement Friday to convert his death sentence to life in pri...

SZEGED, Hungary - Placido Domingo received a warm reception Wednesday at a concert in Hungary to inaugurate a new soccer stadium for a Catholic diocese, the second of the opera star's European engagem...

Mark Giordano can't recall an off-season like this one. It wasn't that the captain of the Calgary Flames became just the fourth player to win the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenceman at...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact are heading into a pivotal Eastern-Conference match with one major factor on their side - they won't have to face Wayne Rooney. Due to a suspension, the former Engl...

TORONTO - Leon Draisaitl hopes Jesse Puljujarvi has a change of heart. If he doesn't and snubs a potential return to the Edmonton Oilers' fold, that's also fine. "You want guys to pan out and you want...

TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack celebrate their inaugural "Forces & Families Day" on Saturday at Lamport Stadium, honouring the military as they host Barrow Raiders in search of their 20th str...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - State government buildings in Vermont's Capitol complex in Montpelier are on lockdown after a report of a person with a weapon. State buildings Commissioner Christopher Cole tells WC...