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Blue Jackets rally past Canucks 5-3 to aid wild card push
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Blue Jackets powered their way out of a three-week funk with a third-period flurry Sunday night. Zach Werenski and Emil Bemstrom scored on power plays during Columbus' four-goal r...
Mar 03, 2020
Crosby collects 800th assist, Penguins top Senators 7-3
PITTSBURGH - Sidney Crosby scored and collected his 800th career assist as the Pittsburgh Penguins ended a six-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over Ottawa on Tuesday night. Crosby became the 32nd pl...
Mar 03, 2020
Gallagher helps Canadiens start fast, beat Islanders 6-2
NEW YORK - Brendan Gallagher had a goal and an assist in Montreal's three-goal first period, and the Canadiens went on to a 6-2 win over the New York Islanders on Tuesday night. Joel Armia also had a ...
Mar 03, 2020
Inside the final month of Buttigieg's historic campaign
WASHINGTON - He opened February by sharing victory with one of the Democratic Party's best-known figures and ended it with a humbling defeat at the hands of another. Yet Pete Buttigieg's unlikely path...
Mar 03, 2020
4-time Iditarod champion sidelined by medical emergency
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Emergency surgery has sidelined a four-time winner of Alaska's famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race days before he was set to compete in his 30th race. Jeff King withdrew Tuesday ove...
Mar 03, 2020
4-time Iditarod champion sidelined by medical emergency
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Emergency surgery has sidelined a four-time winner of Alaska's famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race days before he was set to compete in his 30th race. Jeff King withdrew Tuesday ove...
Mar 03, 2020
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, Dem Cal Cunningham are NC Senate picks
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Democratic state lawmaker Cal Cunningham, the primary candidate favoured by his party's leaders in the U.S. Senate, advanced Tuesday to a general election challenge against GOP ...
Mar 03, 2020
In NC, Gov. Roy Cooper and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest win primaries
RALEIGH, N.C. - Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina won his party's primary Tuesday and will face Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest in the November general election, seeking a second term. It's ...
Mar 03, 2020
Oilers GM Ken Holland on Hart Trophy race: 'I'm glad I don't have a vote'
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Ken Holland doesn't have a vote. And if he did, the general manager of the Edmonton Oilers wouldn't be able to pick between Leon Draisaitl or Connor McDavid in the Hart Trophy race....
Mar 03, 2020
Debate heats up over last remaining west coast commercial herring fishery
NANAIMO - Objections are growing louder as a scaled-down fleet of vessels idles on standby off Vancouver Island's east coast for the annual roe herring fishery. Roughly 75 Gillnet and seiners are pois...
Mar 03, 2020 The annual herring roe fishery sees roughly 100 million of the small fish eligible to be caught in the waters between the Comox Valley and Nanaimo. The imminent fishery could last as quickly as a few days or several weeks. (Department of Fisheries and Oceans)