People should stay away from vaping devices, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Friday. The CDC is currently investigating the spate of vaping-related illnesses that have popped up across the country in recent weeks. CDC officials are aware of 450 confirmed or suspected cases in 33 states. “While this investigation is ongoing, people […]
You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. This installment was written by Naila-Jean Meyers, The Times’s tennis editor. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let us know what you think at [email protected]. “I wanted her to have her head high, not walk off the court sad.” — Naomi […]
Students at Sir Arthur Currie Public School had a different commute to class Friday morning. The school, in partnership with Active and Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) and the London Middlesex Road Safety Committee (LMRSC), encouraged students and staff to walk to class from a nearby drop-off point. Buroak Drive was closed between 8:40 a.m. […]
A woman died and three people were injured in a serious collision near Almonte Friday morning. Ottawa and Lanark County paramedics were called to the intersection of March Road and Greystone Drive around 8:45 a.m. Friday after a three-vehicle collision. An unidentified woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and Lanark County paramedics took another […]
Hundreds of people may be trapped on a North Carolina island amid rising floodwater after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the state governor has warned. The storm struck the islands popular with holidaymakers days after causing at least 30 deaths in the Bahamas. Roy Cooper warned of storm surges on the island of Ocracoke, where 800 […]
Storm brings floodwaters and high winds to US eastern coastline after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. Hurricane Dorian made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach resort area with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble and killing dozens on […]
An American Airlines mechanic has been charged with damaging an aircraft in July as he was allegedly “upset” over stalled union contract negotiations. The plane, with 150 people on board, was scheduled to fly from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas on 17 July. But it aborted take-off after the pilots received an error message […]
Waterloo Regional Police say they are concerned for the well-being of a 53-year-old Kitchener man who has been missing since Wednesday morning. Timothy Hoch was last seen at a gas station on King Street East. He is described as five feet eight inches tall and 130 pounds with brown hair. Hoch was wearing a black […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Friday (Sept 6) said the costs of his protracted trade war were falling squarely on China. Top-level negotiators are due to gather in Washington early next month while lower-level staff will meet in late September, according to officials on both sides. “China is eating the tariffs,” Mr […]
Over 100 protesters crashed the grand opening of Chick-Fil-A‘s first Canadian restaurant in Toronto on Friday. The American food chain, which has over 2,300 locations across the U.S., opened a store at Yonge and Bloor Streets a few minutes before protesters marched up with signs condemning the restaurant’s ties to anti-LGBTQ2 groups and beliefs. The […]