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Matsuyama cards 11 birdies for a 62, leads Morikawa by 1 at Kapalua
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) - Hideki Matsuyama and Collin Morikawa put on a stripe show Saturday at Kapalua, each of them posting an 11-under 62 at vulnerable Kapalua that threatened to turn The Sentry into ...
Jan 04, 2025

Finland tops Sweden in overtime to make gold-medal game at world juniors
OTTAWA - Finland is back in the gold-medal game at the world junior hockey championship. Benjamin Rautiainen scored on a power play at 9:22 of overtime to secure the country's 4-3 victory over Sweden ...
Jan 04, 2025

Canada tops Slovakia 6-2 in opener at women's U18 world hockey championship
VANTAA - Canada opened the women's under-18 world hockey championship with a 6-2 win over Slovakia on Saturday. Hayley McDonald, Maxine Cimoroni, Danica Maynard, Chloe Primerano, Stryker Zablocki and ...
Jan 04, 2025

Chiefs stranded in KC as ice shuts down airport and blizzard-like conditions sweep through Midwest
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Kansas City Chiefs were stranded at Kansas City International Airport on Saturday as an ice storm shut down operations, preventing their chartered jet from departing for th...
Jan 04, 2025

As domestic violence death toll mounts in N.S., calls come to fund support agencies
HALIFAX - Experts on domestic violence say a series of deaths in Nova Scotia over the past three months highlight the need to improve funding for the programs that battle the root causes of intimate p...
Jan 04, 2025

Hockey Canada CEO Katherine Henderson 'disappointed' by early world junior exit
OTTAWA - Katherine Henderson shares in the disappointment. Hockey Canada's president and CEO adds the national sport organization will do what's necessary to avoid a repeat. The country was bounced fr...
Jan 04, 2025

Quebec confirms 4 new cases in measles outbreak, warns of possible exposure
MONTREAL - Quebec's health department is warning people who may have been exposed to measles in several regions of the province to monitor for symptoms amid a new outbreak of the disease. Marie-Pierre...
Jan 04, 2025
‘Sisterhood’: Ribbon skirt library provides community for Indigenous women in Sask.
When a handful of Indigenous youth came up to Claire Tuckanow to compliment her ribbon skirt and shared wishes of wanting their own, a spark was started.Tuckanow, a Mtis-Cree woman from the Okanese Fi...
Jan 04, 2025

Austrian Chancellor Nehammer says he will resign after talks on forming a new government fail
VIENNA (AP) - Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. The announcement came after the People's P...
Jan 04, 2025

Olympic champ Sara Hector wins World Cup giant slalom as former leader Federica Brignone falls
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) - Olympic champion Sara Hector won her second women's World Cup giant slalom of the season on Saturday as Italian skier Federica Brignone fell in the first run. Hector, wh...
Jan 04, 2025