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  • To avoid strikes at Paris Olympics, French government to pay bonuses to civil servants March 09, 2024 - 8:27 AM

    NICE, France (AP) — The French government will offer bonuses to civil servants deployed across the capital during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to avoid strikes during the events this summer, the country’s Minister for Transformation and Public Administration, Stanislas Guerini, said Saturday.

  • QMJHL commissioner Gilles Courteau resigns after 37 years at helm March 05, 2023 - 4:05 PM

    MONTREAL - Quebec Major Junior Hockey League commissioner Gilles Courteau announced his resignation Sunday amid intense scrutiny among the province's political class over hazing and initiations.

  • Serena Williams loses to Tomljanovic in US Open farewell September 02, 2022 - 9:18 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Leave it to Serena Williams to not want to go quietly, to not want this match, this trip to the U.S. Open, this transcendent career of hers, to really, truly end.

  • Serena beats No. 2 seed Kontaveit at US Open to reach 3rd Rd August 31, 2022 - 9:58 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams can call it “evolving” or “retiring” or whatever she wants. And she can be coy about whether or not this U.S. Open will actually mark the end of her playing days. Those 23 Grand Slam titles earned that right.

  • Venus Williams, Raducanu, Osaka all out in US Open 1st round August 30, 2022 - 11:39 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The welcome and support for Venus Williams in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday afternoon were not the same as they were for her sister, Serena, a night earlier. Nor was the result.

  • Serena Williams not done yet; wins 1st match at US Open August 29, 2022 - 8:33 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — They came from far and wide for Serena — no last name required, befitting someone as much an icon as superstar athlete — to see her practice and play and, it turned out, win a match at the U.S. Open on Monday night, turning out in record numbers to fill Arthur Ashe Stadium and shout and applaud and pump their fists right along with her.

  • Longtime Canadian Press sportswriter Neil Stevens saw it all and told it well April 01, 2022 - 2:22 PM

    Former Canadian Press sportswriter Neil Stevens, who earned Hall of Fame recognition in both lacrosse and hockey while criss-crossing the globe in more than three decades with the national news agency, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 74.

  • Super Bowl ads go heavy on nostalgia and star power February 13, 2022 - 5:50 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — On the field, the Los Angeles Rams are facing off against the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl 56. Off the field, Super Bowl advertisers aim to deliver a night of ads heavy with celebrities and nostalgia in an effort to entertain Americans weary of two years of pandemic living

  • Super Bowl ads look toward the future - and the past February 12, 2022 - 4:37 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl advertisers this year want Americans to forget about pandemic woes and focus on the future: of electric vehicles, mind reading Alexas, robots and cryptocurrency — and also to harken back to the nostalgic past of '90s movies like “Austin Powers” and “The Cable Guy.”

  • "It's time": Star goaltender Henrik Lundqvist retires at 39 August 20, 2021 - 11:12 AM

    WASHINGTON - The King has called it a career.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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