A couple of Hamilton residents are celebrating recent lottery wins. Dina Pacifici won a $250,000 top prize with Instant 24 Days To Celebrate, which was purchased at Tops Discount Foods on Upper Ottawa Street. Dina Pacifici won a $250,000 top prize with Instant 24 Days To Celebrate. Meanwhile, Allan Oliver won the Poker Lotto All […]
If you find old military items, you should leave them where they are and contact police. That’s the message from Brantford Police, after a resident brought a possible “explosive device” to Fire Hall #3 on Lynden Road at around 10 a.m. Monday. Police say a resident who had recently cleaned out a deceased relative’s property […]
A suspected drug-dealer on an e-bike has been busted in St. Catharines. Niagara Regional Police say the investigation into the sale of crystal meth in the city started last month and since then, officers have observed several suspected drug transactions by an individual on an e-bike. Police say it led to the arrest of 42-year-old […]
These days there seems to be even more of a swagger as Donald Trump strides across the South Lawn to board his green-liveried helicopter, Marine One. Those campaign-style rallies, which have become such a marked feature of his presidency, have even more of a celebratory charge. The president seems more willing to answer reporters’ questions, […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Trump administration is seeking the conservative-leaning Supreme Court’s endorsement to kill the “Dreamers” programme, which protects about 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. Late on Monday (Nov 5), the Justice Department announced it was bypassing regional appellate benches and going straight to the high court […]
The second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland has been postponed for a day while lawyers on both sides address unspecified issues behind closed doors. Evidence had been expected to get underway in the high-profile trial of Oland, who is accused of bludgeoning his multimillionaire father to death in 2011. But the judge presiding over the […]
Quebec video artist and set designer Stephanie Jasmin has won the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. The co-artistic director of Montreal’s UBU creative company was praised by the jury for “beautiful and highly original visions.” The 38-year-old gets $75,000 and the right to choose a protege to receive $25,000. Jasmin chose emerging set designer Max-Otto […]
A Florida man is being hailed as a hero after he confronted a rampaging gunman using the only weapons he could find in a yoga studio – a broom and a vacuum. “I jumped up as quickly as I could,” Josh Quick told ABC News. He said he wrestled with the attacker after his handgun […]
Tens of millions are expected to cast their votes in Tuesday’s contentious midterm elections to decide the US Congress. The first voting centres have opened in US midterm elections largely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s first two years in office. The first polls opened at 5am (10am GMT) local time in Vermont. […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet North Korea’s No. 2 man Kim Yong Chol in New York on Thursday (Nov 8), the State Department said. They “will discuss making progress on all four pillars of the Singapore Summit joint statement, including achieving the final, fully verified denuclearisation”, a statement said, […]