Elderly man found unconscious in Scarborough pool dies

Toronto police say an 80-year-old man is dead after he was found unconscious in a pool in Scarborough.

Officers responded to a medical call shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday in the Dundalk Drive area, near Ellesmere and Kennedy Road.

Investigators said life-saving CPR measures were used by paramedics, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said there’s nothing suspicious about the incident, but the investigation remains ongoing.

New York semi-pro baseball team to change ‘River Pigs’ nickname after some residents complain

Don't ask anyone in Tupper Lake, New York, if it's acceptable to "pig out" at a barbecue — they may find it offensive. 

Residents from the Adirondacks hollow complained enough about the semi-pro baseball team set to debut in the independent Empire Professional Baseball League next year that it is changing its initial nickname of "River Pigs."

Apparently, "pigs" was seen as demeaning by some residents. 

"Many of the people who opposed the name were concerned that it would paint the town in a 'dirty' light," an editorial in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise read. 

The term river pigs reflects the region's logging history. River pigs were the workers who broke up logjams on rivers. 

On Thursday, despite having no alternative name, Tupper Lake Village Board trustee David Maroun posted on Facebook that the "River Pigs" would be changing the name. Fire chief Royce Cole said the village baseball committee would convene over the weekend to discuss options. 

Contributing: AP 

Newlywed couple, ages 19 and 20, killed in crash moments after wedding

ORANGE, Texas — A newlywed Southeast Texas couple was killed when their car and a truck towing a trailer collided moments after the couple wed, KFDM-TV reports.

The crash happened about 3 p.m. Friday on State Highway 87 at Orange County Airport on the southwestern edge of Orange. That’s 96 miles east of Houston near the border with Louisiana.

Orange police say 19-year-old Harley Joe Morgan and his 20-year-old bride, Rhiannon Boudreaux Morgan, were leaving the office of the justice of the peace that married them when they pulled out onto the highway. The pickup truck towing a trailer carrying a tractor slammed into the couple’s car, killing both. Justice of the Peace Joy Dubose-Simonton, who performed the wedding, attended their bodies as coroner.

The truck driver was unhurt.

Man in his 60s stabbed to death in northwest London – suspect in hospital

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his 60s was stabbed to death in northwest London.

Police were called to St Mary’s Avenue in Southall at 6.40pm on Saturday.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene and police say his family have been informed.

The arrested man is in hospital under police guard and is being treated for minor injuries.

The Metropolitan Police said enquiries were continuing and the area remained sealed off on Saturday evening.

Rescue operation at the summit of Mount Royal in Montreal

The Montreal fire department received a call around 12:30 p.m. about a man who fell on Mount Royal on Saturday.

The man slipped and fell from a height of about 10 metres near Olmsted Road on Mount Royal Park.

A rescue team from the fire department located the man, who did not suffer any serious injuries, according to spokesperson Louise Desrosiers.

No details were provided regarding the man nor the circumstances around his fall.

–With files from Global News’ Alessia Simona Maratta

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Tropical Storm Dorian forms in the Atlantic with sustained winds of 40 mph

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The fourth tropical storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season formed Saturday afternoon, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical Storm Dorian is 725 miles east-southeast of Barbados. Maximum sustained winds were clocked at 40 mph. It was moving west at near 12 mph and is expected to continue this motion Saturday night. A turn toward the west-northwest is forecast Sunday through Tuesday.

Dorian could strengthen into a hurricane Tuesday, the NHC said.

Dennis Feltgen of the hurricane center said that it’s too early to tell exactly what path the storm will take. Residents of the central and northern Lesser Antilles should monitor the storm’s progress.

There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

Contributing: The Associated Press

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige On Spider-Man: “It Was Never Meant To Last Forever”

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has issued his first public comments about the Disney/Sony dispute over future Spider-Man film financing.

“I’m feeling about Spider-Man gratitude and joy,” Feige said, speaking at D23’s Entertainment Weekly booth. “We got to make five films within the MCU with Spider-Man: two standalone films and three with the Avengers. It was a dream that I never thought would happen. It was never meant to last forever. We knew there was a finite amount of time that we’d be able to do this, and we told the story we wanted to tell, and I’ll always be thankful for that.”

This comes at a moment when the last two films Kevin Feige produced broke all-time records — Disney’s Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing film of all time, and Spider-Man: Far From Home this week surpassed the James Bond film Skyfall to become the all-time highest-grossing film for Sony Pictures

Sony is planning two more Spider-Man installments, though it is an open question whether those will include Jon Watts, director of the first two films guided creatively by Feige.