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Administrators take action after seeing too many injuries, squabbles Karina Bland The Arizona Republic Kids call "Not it!" when they gather to play tag, and some may never be "it" as a growing number of Valley schools ban the game at recess. Tag joins the list of childhood games such as...

DWI Message Played During Men's Last Pit Stop Before Driving SANTA FE -- New Mexico has taken its fight against drunken driving to men's restrooms around the state. The state has ordered 500 talking urinal cakes that will deliver a recorded anti-DWI message to bar and restaurant patrons who...

Was this another Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale out of Denmark? Or was this the opening shot in the coming sexual revolution? Suddenly, America became obsessed with the words “sex change,” and the “privates” of a former World War II Private, George Jorgensen. They came not to admire...

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - The extrasensory perception lab at Princeton University will be shuttered at the end of the month. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory will close after 28 years of studying ESP and telekinesis, research that embarrassed university officials and...

By Alison Auld HALIFAX (CP) - Widows of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan are tied up in a confusing fight of their own with banks that have delayed payment of their mortgages or claim they're not covered by insurance at all because their husbands died in combat. Several women...

LONDON (AFP) - Sue Rogers will never be without her dead dogs and cat after having a diamond ring made from their ashes. Rogers, from Devon in southwest England, paid 3,200 pounds (4,800 euros, 6,238 dollars) for the ring made from carbon extracted from the ashes of Lucky, an old English...

By Dean Beeby OTTAWA (CP) - The Harper government got blasted over its treatment of Saskatchewan when Canadians were asked about the fiscal imbalance in an Internet survey last summer. But you won't read that in the official report from the Finance Department about the web consultations -...

Canadians scrambling to obtain passports before a March break holiday may be out of luck, with waiting times now stretching to 60 days, Passport Canada says. Passport Canada spokeswoman Francine Charbonneau said the agency is receiving high volumes of applications, averaging about 21,000 a...

More than 130 million of the world's children will never have the chance to go to school. An estimated 960 million adults are illiterate. These stark facts were outlined at the launch of a new education initiative by Manos Unidas, a Spanish Catholic NGO. The charity hope their work will help...

The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop/rock band who began to take shape when they were known as The Saxons. Playing local gigs in and around the Edinburgh area, they had a large turnover of members before drummer Derek Longmuir and his bass-playing brother Alan teamed up with singer Nobby...

Fr. C.G. Vaillancourt As Catholics we remember that the first commandment states, I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have any gods before me. When asked what was the greatest commandment, our Lord Jesus Christ, repeating the precept found in Deuteronomy, said, You shall love the Lord your...

We expect our heroes to be flawed, but Archie Belaney, aka Grey Owl, was more flawed than most. The guise under which he did his considerable good works was a lie. Yet, in his heyday he was the most famous Canadian alive. Archie created his fantasy world early in his unhappy childhood...

On October 4, 1813, the eve of the Battle of Moraviantown, the great Shawnee chief Tecumseh had a foreboding. “Our lives are in the hands of the Great Spirit,” he said, “We are determined to defend our lands, and if it is His will, we wish to leave our bones upon them.” In the moments before the...

A lower court was correct in finding a wealthy plastic surgeon in contempt of court and giving him a jail sentence after he left the country and stopped paying support to his ex-wife Leaka and their children, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday. In its 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court...

NEW YORK (AP) - Baseballs will keep their cool this summer. The commissioner's office is telling teams for the first time that balls must be stored at a uniform temperature after they are delivered from the manufacturer. "The specifications that Rawlings recommends are a 70 degree (21 C)...

By Father C. G. Vaillancourt One of the stumbling blocks of many non-Catholics have in embracing Catholicism is understanding why the Church attributes so many extraordinary graces and unique privileges to our Blessed Mother. For example: the belief that she was conceived without original sin...

In Richmond Prison, at the end of Gottingen Street, Halifax, the warden's young son was drawn to a window by a spectacular display of fireworks. Too sick to go to school that day he had gone to work with his dad. Suddenly he was blinded by a brilliant flash of light and then stunned by an...

In 1956, in the crucible of the Suez Crisis, L.B. Pearson invented United Nations peacekeeping. The Canadian foreign minister did not do so alone, and peacekeeping as it evolved was not exactly what he had in mind. Yet the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), which resulted from his...

In the very early morning of October 13, 1812, Major General Isaac Brock was fast asleep in his bunk at Fort George, on the Niagara Frontier. About 4:00 am he was awakened by the distant thud of cannon fire. He rose in a flash, dressed, mounted his horse Alfred and dashed through the fort...

Now that Harper is enjoying the spoils of his tenuous minority, both he and his supporters (on both sides of the border) understand the need to maintain a continued distance between Ottawa and Washington. >by Scott Piatkowski Mention the phrase “Stephen Harper's hidden...