Friday News

Memorial Day weekend is viewed as the unofficial start to the summer, but the holiday's primary meaning is to remember those who have sacrificed for the country.

A 13-year-old schoolboy collapsed and died in front of his friends at a church-run youth club, it emerged today.

A group gathered in Aiken on Friday morning to remember six men and women during a pauper service at the Calvary Cemetery.

A former Vancouver Island youth pastor has been criminally charged after he allegedly carried on a 16-month sexual relationship with a teenage girl.

BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Patrol Sgt. Edith Turner receives James Toal award from Chief Keith McCaskill.

Taft ISD also canceled classes today, and classes will be delayed at Odem-Edroy ISD until 9:30 a.m., officials said.

Local residents are being asked to empty their cupboards of unused non-perishables and include them in their outgoing mail next week to help local letter carriers stamp out hunger.

Shannon Wheaton, his wife, Trina and one of their sons have been identified in media reports as being three of the seven people who died in the two vehicle crash which happened Friday in Northern Alberta on Highway 63 near Boyle, about 200 kilometres north of Edmonton.

The funeral service for the Wheaton family that was killed Friday in the collision on Highway 63 - including Rev.

A headstone from Mount Zion Cemetery was used to break into the Lansdowne Library in the early morning hours on Friday, according to Baltimore County police.Just before 5 a.m. April 27, an officer responded to an alarm going off at the library on Third Avenue and found a headstone had been used to smash a side window, said Baltimore County police ... (more)