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Super Bowl betting brings big business to sports books
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Business was brisk at sports books around the country on Super Bowl Sunday, with customers risking money on everything from the coin toss at the start of the game, to the colour ...
Feb 05, 2020
Kobe Bryant's books surging in popularity
Books created by Kobe Bryant's content company soared in popularity in the days following the basketball legend's death in a helicopter crash. A trio of the books created by Bryant's Granity Studios w...
Feb 05, 2020
China new virus deaths rise to 563; 2 cruisers quarantined
BEIJING - China on Thursday reported 73 more deaths from a new virus, raising its total to 563, as the World Health Organization appealed for more funds to help countries battle the spread of the dise...
Feb 05, 2020
Canada's humble star Sinclair gets pushed into spotlight
CARSON, Calif. - Christine Sinclair says she's sorry she hasn't gotten back to all the well-wishers who reached out after she set the international goals record. Canada's veteran striker didn't get mu...
Feb 05, 2020
Man accused of breaking into downtown Parksville businesses
PARKSVILLE - Oceanside RCMP arrested a man red-handed who's accused of breaking into a pair of downtown Parksville businesses. Mounties said a pair of commercial alarms went off on Morison Ave. and Ha...
Feb 05, 2020 Oceanside RCMP arrested 45-year-old David Frances Ovington on Jan. 31. Mounties allege he broke into a pair of downtown Parksville businesses and stole several items. (RCMP submitted)
Tom Hanks, Chris Rock added to Oscars presenters
LOS ANGELES - Tom Hanks, Chris Rock and Taika Waititi are some of the presenters who will take the Oscars stage at the Dolby Theatre during Sunday's ceremony. Producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Steph...
Feb 05, 2020
Kirk Douglas, longtime influential movie star, dies at 103
LOS ANGELES - Kirk Douglas, the muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films and helped fatally weaken the Hollywood blacklist, has died a...
Feb 05, 2020
Hamblin, Scott and Langlois stronger players for facing adversity in Siberia
Ruth Hamblin, Jamie Scott, and Miah-Marie Langlois were on a train in Eastern Europe a few weeks ago. They were supposed to get off in the Czech Republic, but nobody gave them a heads up. Being the on...
Feb 05, 2020
Son clinches Tottenham's 3-2 win over Southampton in FA Cup
LONDON - Son Heung-min's late penalty secured Tottenham's progress in the FA Cup on Wednesday, clinching a 3-2 victory over Southampton in a fourth-round replay. Son was awarded the penalty despite go...
Feb 05, 2020
'The chill is real,' Canada's ambassador to China says of fraught relationship
OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to China says there is a chill in relations between the two countries since the People's Republic imprisoned two Canadians, but his top priority is winning their release a...
Feb 05, 2020