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Happy families: Osaka, Williams win openers in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia - Naomi Osaka won the tournament opening match for her dad at the Australian Open. Serena Williams won hers for her daughter. The first two matches on centre court at the Australi...
Jan 19, 2020
Downtown Nanaimo garbage & needle clean-up program provides purpose and hope
NANAIMO - A new needle and trash clean-up initiative is the opportunity a Nanaimo woman believes will turn her life around.Misty Potzkai, 35, is one of eight people employed through Clean Sweep, an in...
Jan 19, 2020 Misty Potzkai posts a garbage bag to a pole on Wesley St. The Nanaimo woman is chartering a new path in life with help through a part-time job cleaning up garbage and needles in downtown Nanaimo (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Anthony Cirelli scores first career hat trick, Lightning beat Jets 7-1
WINNIPEG - Anthony Cirelli had shaving cream on his ear, hair and T-shirt. He didn't mind, though. The foam was part of the celebration his Tampa Bay Lightning teammates gave him Friday after he...
Jan 19, 2020
Canada's Shapovalov upset by Fucsovics in first round of Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Canada's Denis Shapovalov lost a lengthy four-set match with Hungary's Marton Fucsovics on Monday in the opening round of the Australian Open. Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, On...
Jan 19, 2020
Trudeau cabinet tries to focus on domestic agenda amid unforeseen emergencies
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers are trying to concentrate on the Liberal government's domestic agenda and how to see it to fruition in a minority Parl...
Jan 19, 2020
Kane gets 1,000th point, Blackhawks beat Jets 5-2
CHICAGO - Patrick Kane reached 1,000 career points when he picked up an assist on Brandon Saad's third-period goal, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 on Sunday night for their seas...
Jan 19, 2020
Mostert lifts 49ers to Super Bowl with 37-20 win vs Packers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - From No. 2 pick in the draft to one of the last two teams standing. It has been a remarkable turnaround for the Super Bowl-bound San Francisco 49ers. Raheem Mostert rushed for 22...
Jan 19, 2020
Powell has the hot hand as Raps tie franchise scoring record in thumping Wizards
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors are finally getting healthy. And starting to impose their will at both ends of the court. After running up 130 points midweek in a nine-point win in Oklahoma Ci...
Jan 19, 2020
China counts sharp rise in coronavirus cases, 2 in Beijing
BEIJING - China reported Monday a sharp rise in the number of people affected in a pneumonia outbreak caused by a new coronoavirus, including the first cases in the capital. The outbreak started in th...
Jan 19, 2020
'Downton Abbey' creator's new TV show is painfully accurate
PASADENA, Calif. - The period costumes of a Julian Fellowes drama can be excruciatingly accurate, as an actress in his new series "Belgravia" discovered. The Epix drama from "Downton Abbey" creator Fe...
Jan 19, 2020