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Federal judge won't undo Georgia voter purge
ATLANTA - Georgia doesn't have to put almost 100,000 voters back on its rolls, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones ruled that a voting rights advocacy group founded by Dem...
Dec 27, 2019

Jocelyn Burdick, 1st ND woman to serve in US Senate, dies
FARGO, N.D. - Jocelyn Burdick, who became the first woman to represent North Dakota in the U.S. Senate when she briefly filled the seat vacated by her late husband, has died. She was 97. Burdick died ...
Dec 27, 2019

Slovakia edges Kazakhstan at world junior hockey championship
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - After a loss against Canada to open the tournament, the United States improved to .500 with a 6-3 win over Germany on Friday at the world junior hockey championship. The...
Dec 27, 2019

DJ Imus, made and betrayed by his mouth, dead at 79
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broad...
Dec 27, 2019

Little potash spilled after derailment in B.C. lake: government spokesman
VALEMOUNT, B.C. - Two rail cars containing potash have been removed from Moose Lake in eastern British Columbia after a Canadian National train derailed Thursday. A spokesman with the B...
Dec 27, 2019

'Queen of Giraffes' among new Order of Canada recipients with global influence
OTTAWA - Talk about sticking her neck out for Canada. The latest cohort of appointments to the Order of Canada include many people whose accomplishments have had an impact around the wo...
Dec 27, 2019

A list of new Order of Canada recipients
OTTAWA - Here is a list of the newest recipients of the Order of Canada, along with their citations. Companions of the Order: James Francis Cameron, Saskatoon and Manhattan Beach, Calif. Writer, ...
Dec 27, 2019

19-year-old freezes, dies after crash near Warman
A 19-year-old man died after being found out in the cold after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 11 Thursday near Warman.RCMP were called shortly after 4 a.m. with multiple reports of a man walking in...
Dec 27, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Mild weather and decent highway conditions expected for the rest of 2019
Mild weather should make for normal driving conditions heading into the new year, according to Highway Hotline.Daily highs across Saskatchewan are hovering around the single digits, with the occasiona...
Dec 27, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Sports Year in Review: Melfort’s Logan Ferland signs with the Riders
northeastNOW is taking a look back at the biggest and most interesting sports stories of 2019, as selected by our sports reporters Mat Barrett and Aaron Schulze:-Logan Ferland's expectations for himse...
Dec 27, 2019 MUCC alumni Logan Ferland signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders shortly after concluding his fifth and final year of junior football with the Regina Thunder (Facebook/Regina Thunder Football Club).