SAN ANTONIO, Texas • It should have been one of the happiest moments of Ms Priscilla Maldonado’s life but, instead, the 25-year-old mother was terrified. It was New Year’s Day and she had just delivered her newborn son, Ja’bari. She said she heard her son’s soft cries – and then the hospital room fell silent. […]
Survivors of the Columbine High School shooting have been speaking at a remembrance ceremony in Denver to mark the twentieth anniversary of the massacre. Twelve students and a teacher were murdered by two teenagers. One former student, Patrick Ireland, who was injured by bullets, said no one from the school or surrounding community had emerged […]
An Alberta man has died after a collision during a snowmobiling race in B.C. on Saturday. The man was taking part in the Western Canada Hillcross Tour at Sun Peaks Resort in Kamloops when he suffered serious injuries in the crash. Kamloops RCMP said the man was airlifted to the medical centre at the resort, […]
An African-American woman will replace the editor of an Alabama newspaper who came under fire last week after calling for mass lynchings of Democrats. Elecia Dexter, 46, will take over as the Democrat-Reporter’s editor and publisher, “moving the paper into a new direction”, the paper said on Thursday. Longtime editor Goodloe Sutton, who made the […]
Inspiration and artistry through designing with nature — that’s the goal at Passionate Blooms, a flower shop in West Kelowna. “I actually started six years ago out of my parents’ basement,” said owner and floral artist Shauna Grobowsky. “I started with weddings and decided that I really wanted a shop to teach and inspire.” The […]
The wife of a Ku Klux Klan leader in the US state of Missouri has admitted shooting him dead two years ago. Malissa Ancona, 47, was sentenced to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and other charges. She had initially said her son, Paul Jinkerson, carried out the killing but in court on Friday […]
Last summer, New Zealand nixed new foreign homeownership. Foreigners who already owned homes could keep them, but moving forward, only residents would be allowed to buy. The decision was pitched as a solution to unaffordable housing, a pain many around the world — including hopeful first-time buyers in Toronto and Vancouver — are all too […]
LIMA (AFP) – A suicide note in which Peru’s Alan Garcia denied corruption charges against him set the backdrop on Friday (April 19) for the ex-president’s funeral, two days after he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger as police arrived to arrest him on bribery charges linked to the Odebrecht graft […]
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has launched an angry and expletive-laden tirade in response to statements about him revealed in the Mueller report into Russian involvement in his election. The angry morning outburst came after the release of the special counsel’s findings revealed he had repeatedly attempted to obstruct justice, but that aides had refused to […]
‘OH my God. This is the end of my presidency. I’m f***ed,” Donald Trump said when he learned about the appointment of a special counsel, we found out after the release of the Mueller report. Considering this, it’s incredible how the president and his fellow Republicans managed to turn the narrative around after William Barr’s […]