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Alleged gunman arrested in TD bank robbery TORONTO - The second man charged in a violent bank robbery in which two people were shot made a brief court appearance on Wednesday. Lenroy Jackson, 27, of Toronto, was remanded in custody during an appearance in an Old City Hall courtroom. Police...

U.S. drops charges against Elvis impersonator in ricin letters case By Robbie Ward, Reuters Paul Kevin Curtis is seen in this picture taken in 2000. Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Curtis with...

Dozens killed in Bangladesh factory building collapse By Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul, Reuters People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka April 24, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj...

The RCMP have arrested two people who they say were plotting a terrorist attack in Canada, CTV News has learned. The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation conducted by the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which “had been going on for a considerable amount of time,”...

Chemo scandal is third strike Wrongly diluted chemotherapy drugs, ORNGE, eHealth — how did we get to the state in Ontario where the provincial government’s health ministry has become hazardous to our health? In the latest potentially deadly fiasco, hundreds of cancer patients at four...

Georgia hostage standoff ends with gunman shot dead and firefighters unhurt Man demanded during hours-long standoff in Atlanta that his power and cable be turned back on, according to authorities...

Louvre Museum shuts for day as guards protest pickpockets PARIS (Reuters) - Tourists caught no glimpse of the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory or Venus de Milo on Wednesday due to a one-day closure of the Louvre, as guards protested that pickpockets were rampant at the world's most visited museum...

Internet commenters ID alleged subway mugger By QMI Agency It turns out anonymous Internet commenters can be a force for good. After cops in New York City released footage of a subway mugging Tuesday...

Device lets humans control rat's movements with their brains By QMI Agency This week in terrifying scientific breakthroughs, researchers at Harvard have created a brain-to-brain interface that allows humans to make a rat move involuntarily with the power of their...

TSA agent accidentally pepper sprays fellow agents An incident that reportedly led a TSA agent to accidentally shoot five fellow employees with pepper spray left Kennedy International Airport with mud in its eye. According to the New York Post, the stinging substance that is meant to be...

Senator Patrick Brazeau tweets resignation in April Fools’ joke By QMI...

Pioneer Canadian rocket scientist dead at age 88 By QMI Agency A Canadian-born rocket scientist whose innovations are still being used today has died. Yvonne Brill (nee Claeys) died Wednesday in Princeton, N.Y., from complications due to breast cancer. She...

MPs flee after getting pay raise OTTAWA – In what is not an April Fool’s Day prank, MPs are getting a pay raise Monday that will bring their base salaries to $160,200 from $157,731 after the House of Commons quietly lifted a three-year pay freeze. MPs were notified of the 1.6% increase just...

Toddler mauled by 7 dogs dies in Georgia ATLANTA - A toddler died in south Georgia after being mauled by a pack of seven dogs in her backyard, police said on Thursday. The girl's grandmother and others were unable to stop the attack late on Wednesday before the child was killed by the...

Man cuts dog's throat, tells police he wants to eat people's brains BRANTFORD, Ont. — A 31-year-old man who slashed the throat of a chihuahua and told police he thinks about killing people and eating their brains will be sentenced next month. Randy Pawis pleaded guilty...

Text messages privacy ruling expected from Supreme Court Telus fighting a warrant from police in Owen Sound, Ont. Should police be allowed to seize copies of your private text messages from your wireless provider's servers...

Italy court orders Amanda Knox retrial for Meredith Kercher murder Italy’s top court on Tuesday overturned the 2011 acquittal of American student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher, and ordered a retrial. The decision by the...

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Texas bill would require DNA testing before death-penalty trials By Corrie MacLaggan, Reuters AUSTIN, Texas - A law proposed in Texas would require all biological evidence collected in cases in which the state is seeking the death penalty to undergo DNA...

Prisoners escape from Quebec jail in a helicopter, get arrested again In a twist befitting a movie plot, two men suspended from a helicopter managed to escape from a Quebec prison on Sunday afternoon. It may have been a first for Quebec, but the daring freedom run didn't last very long...