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TORONTO (CP) - An Ontario boy can legally have two mothers and a father, the province's highest court ruled Tuesday. The same-sex partner of the child's biological mother went to court seeking to also be declared a mother of the boy. After hearing arguments in 2003, Superior Court Justice...

CHICAGO (AP) - U.S. officials said it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon but a group of United Airline employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport last fall. The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - William Shatner, best known as Capt. James T. Kirk to legions of "Star Trek" fans, will be beaming down for a party celebrating the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Space Camp. The 75-year-old Canadian-born and raised Shatner, who currently stars in the TV series "Boston...

By Korie Wilkins Detroit Free Press DETROIT — A cell phone became a lifeline for a Detroit man who woke up inside a garbage truck that had begun compacting its load, Oak Park, Mich., police said. The man, 41, was scavenging for cans and bottles in the city's Dumpsters when he apparently fell...

Keeper's mauling a reminder wild animals can turn vicious at any time, experts say - Patricia Yollin, Chronicle Staff Writer "The tiger ate her hand. It slowly proceeded to eat the rest of her arm." That's how Vikram Chari described the horrifying spectacle that he and his 6-year-old son...

A 16-year-old unlicensed Sydney driver has been charged by police after they allegedly found 79 ecstasy tablets in his underpants. Officers had attempted to stop a Ford Laser sedan they saw on Liverpool Road at Petersham, in Sydney's inner west, at 1.15pm (AEDT) yesterday but as police...

From the Catholic Encyclopedia The surpassing eminence of the character of Jesus has been acknowledged by men of the most varied type: Kant testifies to His ideal perfection; Hegel sees in Him the union of the human and the Divine; the most advanced sceptics do Him homage; Spinoza speaks of...

By Lisa Arrowsmith EDMONTON (CP) - Pharmacists in several provinces, wanting to do more than just count out pills, are pushing for the power to prescribe medications and play a more meaningful role in their patients' health care. But some physicians' groups caution that allowing pharmacists...

By Frances D'Emilio VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict made a New Year's Day wish Monday that people will work courageously for world peace, and especially for a lasting end to the Holy Land's conflict, which he said has dragged on for too long. Benedict in his homily in St. Peter's Basilica...

GATINEAU, Que. (CP) - The security perimeter around the prime minister's official Quebec country house was breached early Sunday morning by a "troubled individual" who smashed a car through a gate. An RCMP spokesman said officers quickly intervened. "The protective unit of the RCMP...

By DAVID DISHNEAU French fries doused with oven cleaner were served to two patrons at a Hagerstown Suns game, the former owner of the minor-league baseball team has acknowledged. Still to be determined in a lawsuit against the company is whether the ballpark visitors are due any compensation...

by The Associated Press LILLINGTON – A woman attacked a man in his genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said Friday. Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, was charged with malicious castration in a fight early Tuesday at a party hosted by the...

By Erin Carlson NEW YORK (AP) - The bitter battle of words between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell isn't over. "Rosie's a loser. She's been a loser always," the real estate mogul and host of NBC's "The Apprentice," said Thursday in a phone interview. "Her show failed, her magazine failed...

A Toronto church's plan to shelter a dozen homeless people once a week during the cold winter months has been met by threats of an injunction from some area residents. Plans for the temporary shelter at St. Aidan's Anglican Church, located in the affluent Beach neighbourhood, have been put on...

By Nick Allen Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- It's Saturday night in Middlesbrough, England, and drunken university students are celebrating the start of the school year, known as Freshers' Week. One picks up a traffic cone and runs down the street. Suddenly, a disembodied voice booms out from above...

BY MATTHEW KEMENY STAFF WRITER A Scranton couple and an Olyphant woman have been charged with corruption of minors after police say they videotaped a 2-year-old girl drinking shots of tequila and smoking cigarettes, because they “thought it would be funny.” According to an affidavit filed...

(CBS4) PEABODY Desperate times mean desperate measures. Two brothers in Peabody say they caught a man who allegedly broke into their mother's home Christmas Eve by pulling down his pants to slow him down before police arrived. 61-year-old George Medeiros told the Salem News he and his...

By Joan Bryden OTTAWA (CP) - Federal Liberals head into 2007 with a slight edge in the polls, a new leader and a virtually clean slate. It's a dramatic turnaround from the drubbing the fractured, scandal-plagued party took in the election at the start of the year. Yet it's hardly cause...

By Chinta Puxley TORONTO (CP) - Canada should brace for more dramatic displays of aboriginal defiance in 2007, warn native leaders who say the First Nations frustrations that boiled over in a small Ontario town this year may well be a tipping point for decades of simmering aboriginal anger...

Dutch Mason, the musician from Nova Scotia who was known as "prime minister of the blues," has died. The singer and guitarist - one of the country's best-known blues artists and a pioneer for many of today's musicians - died Saturday in Truro, N.S. In the past few years, Mason has battled...