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Slokar a surprise winner in World Cup slalom; Canada's Nullmeyer sixth
MERIBEL, France (AP) - Mikaela Shiffrin already got the overall World Cup title. Petra Vlhov had the Olympic and World Cup titles in slalom. Maybe that left space for a surprise Saturday. Andreja Slok...
Mar 19, 2022
World Cup champion Marco Odermatt wins again in giant slalom
MERIBEL, France (AP) - Marco Odermatt finished his standout World Cup ski season on top yet again Saturday. The new World Cup overall champion retained his first-run lead in a giant slalom to win in h...
Mar 19, 2022
Pandemic underscores value of culturally sensitive Indigenous health care: experts
Doctors and front-line agencies say COVID-19 has underscored the value of culturally sensitive and community-based health-care services for Indigenous people and the need to continue them past the pan...
Mar 19, 2022
'I cried watching it the first time:' local Indigenous boxing program pushed into national focus
NANAIMO - A local boxing coach and program, geared toward Indigenous youth in and graduating from government care, is getting some national attention.Ivy Richardson and her Team 700 were the subject o...
Mar 19, 2022
4 US troops die in Norway plane crash; unrelated to Ukraine
HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister said Saturday. Jon...
Mar 19, 2022
Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail ...
Mar 19, 2022
Thompson scores in OT as Sabres beat Flames 1-0
CALGARY - Tage Thompson scored the overtime winner and Dustin Tokarski made 24 saves as the Buffalo Sabres won 1-0 Friday night over the Calgary Flames. Buffalo (21-33-8) has split the first two games...
Mar 18, 2022
China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year
BEIJING (AP) - China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surg...
Mar 18, 2022
Hall scores in third to lift Bruins to a 4-2 victory over Winnipeg Jets
WINNIPEG - Taylor Hall scored a power-play goal with 4:47 left in the third period to help lift the Boston Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday. Hall took advantage of a bouncing p...
Mar 18, 2022
Rep. Don Young, longtime Alaska congressman, dies at 88
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican who was the longest-serving current member of Congress, has died. He was 88. His office announced Young's death in a statement Friday night...
Mar 18, 2022