A teenager has been killed and seven others injured after two pupils allegedly opened fire in a US school. The attack at the STEM School Highlands Ranch, near Denver, Colarado, took place on Tuesday, police said. Both attackers have now been arrested. Highlands Ranch is just 8km (5 miles) from Columbine High School – the […]
Police officers and personnel with Alberta Occupational Health and Safety responded to a workplace death in northwestern Alberta, a spokesperson for the RCMP said on Tuesday evening. Details about the victim and what happened were not disclosed but the spokesperson told Global News the incident unfolded in the Fox Creek area. Global News has reached […]
An 18-year-old male has died and seven other students have been injured after two gunman opened fire in a science and technology school in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. The Douglas County Sheriff’s department has said that two suspects, one adult and one juvenile are in custody. The motive for the shooting is not yet […]
BOSTON (BLOOMBERG) – A Los Angeles executive became the third parent to plead guilty in the US college-admissions scandal, saying he paid a US$400,000 (S$545,000) bribe to get his son into Georgetown University with a falsified profile as a tennis recruit. Stephen Semprevivo, who has served as chief strategy and growth officer at Cydcor LLC, admitted […]
People were evacuated after two fires broke out at a Toronto high school on early Tuesday morning and Monday afternoon. “It is [the authorities’] view that the smoke and the direction in which the smoke is going, mostly to the south, poses a potential hazard to people,” Toronto mayor John Tory told reporters Tuesday. “It’s […]
It’s Canada’s second-oldest radio station, but recent changes to how Ontario’s post-secondary students pay ancillary fees could eliminate most of the budget for Queen’s University’s CFRC. “We had understood first that it might just affect student governments,” said Dinah Jansen, station manager with CFRC, Queen’s University’s campus radio station. “But it was within a few […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] For years, Keith Raniere described himself as the smartest and most ethical person in the world. He compared himself to Einstein and Gandhi, and boasted that he had earned multiple academic degrees. But during opening statements on Tuesday in […]
Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation on Tuesday, effectively banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, when doctors can usually start detecting a fetal heartbeat. Georgia is the fourth state to enact a so-called fetal heartbeat law this year. Like in other states, it is […]
A former NDP finance minister from Saskatchewan is heading a panel of experts looking into Alberta’s finances. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Janice MacKinnon will chair the group and come up with a plan by mid-August to get the province out of deficit. He says the panel’s advice will help the government balance the budget, […]
REVENTADOR, Ecuador — The dam sits under the glare of an active volcano, with columns of ash spewing toward the sky. Officials had warned against the dam for decades. Geologists said an earthquake could wipe it away. Now, only two years after opening, thousands of cracks are splintering the dam’s machinery. Its reservoir is clogged […]