Murray Wood: Fall season is too brief to waste indoors
Today marks the first day of fall, as the equinox arrives. Murray Wood says that despite the fantastic temperatures we'v...
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With recovery of last case, New Zealand has eradicated virus
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand appears to have completely eradicated the coronavirus - at least for now - after health officials said Monday the last known infected person had recovered. The an...
Jun 08, 2020
On sad anniversary, few to mourn the D-Day dead in Normandy
SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France (AP) - At least the dead will always be there. All too many have been, for 76 years since that fateful June 6 on France's Normandy beaches, when Allied troops in 1944 tur...
Jun 05, 2020 D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay poses on a dune overlooking Omaha Beach prior to a memorial ceremony in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, on June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Protests shift to memorializing Floyd amid push for change
ATLANTA - The tenor of the protests set off by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has taken a turn from the explosive anger that has fuelled the setting of fires, breaking of windows and...
Jun 05, 2020
AP source: NBA owners approve 22-team season restart plan
A person with knowledge of the situation says the NBA's Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Fla. The forma...
Jun 04, 2020 (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Brees says he ‘completely missed the mark’ in flag comments
NEW ORLEANS - Drew Brees apologized Thursday for comments that were "insensitive and completely missed the mark" when he reiterated his opposition to Colin Kaepernick's kneeling during the national an...
Jun 04, 2020 San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, right, is greeted by New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees at the end of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP file photo/D. Ross Cameron)
Floyd to be eulogized in Minneapolis memorial, first of 3
MINNEAPOLIS - Mourners converged in Minneapolis on Thursday for the first in a series of a memorials to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police has sparked turbulent protests around the world...
Jun 04, 2020
Prosecutors charge 3 more officers in George Floyd’s death
MINNEAPOLIS - Prosecutors on Wednesday expanded their case against the police who were at the scene of George Floyd's death, charging three of the officers with aiding and abetting a murder and upgrad...
Jun 03, 2020
Streets in U.S. cities calmest in days, protests largely peaceful
MINNEAPOLIS - Protests were largely peaceful and the streets in cities across the United States were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off sometimes violent demo...
Jun 03, 2020 Demonstrators chant on June 2, 2020, in Philadelphia during a protest over the death of George Floyd, who died May 25 after he was restrained by Minneapolis police. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
U.S. cities erupt in more violence amid threats from Trump
WASHINGTON - American cities erupted in violence and destruction in a seventh straight night of unrest, with several police officers shot or run over, amid boasts and threats from President Donald Tru...
Jun 02, 2020 Protesters raise their fists during a rally June 1, 2020, in Las Vegas, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Family autopsy: Floyd asphyxiated by sustained pressure
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd's family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck...
Jun 01, 2020
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