Lawyer: defendant unaware of Canada terror plot
(AP) - A plot to attack Canadian buildings and politicians was an unrealistic "jihadi fantasy," hidden from a 20-year-old man on trial for his role in the alleged terrorist conspiracy, his lawyer said Thursday.
Black bear shot in British Columbia neighborhood
(AP) - A black bear that broke into a British Columbia home in search of food was shot and killed Thursday, a day after a woman was attacked in the same neighborhood.
PETA ad compares bus beheading to animal abuse
(AP) - The animal rights group PETA has tried unsuccessfully to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading and cannibalizing of a passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada last week to the treatment of animals by the meat industry.
Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading
(AP) - Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.
The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage.
Canadian rodeo star and 14 horses die in crash
A veteran rodeo star and 14 of his horses were killed in a head-on collision in western Canada, police said Wednesday.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a tractor-trailer carrying 15 horses collided with a pickup truck Tuesday near Rycroft in west-central Alberta.
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(AP) - Olympic flame sets off on final torch relay in Chinese capital two days before games begin.
Canada bus beheading suspect says 'please kill me'
(AP) - A man accused of stabbing and beheading another passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada pleaded Tuesday in court for someone to "please kill me," and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Ballard, pioneer of fuel-cell industry, dies at 76
(AP) - Geoff Ballard, a Canadian pioneer of the fuel cell industry and an entrepreneur Time Magazine once named one of its "Heroes for the Planet," has died. He was 76.
Bus beheading suspect pleads 'Please kill me'
(AP) - A man accused of stabbing, beheading and cannibalizing another man on a Greyhound bus in Canada pleaded Tuesday in court for someone to "please kill me," and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Suspect in bus beheading described as hard working
(AP) - A man who witnesses said stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized a fellow traveler on a Greyhound bus immigrated to Canada from China four years ago and worked for a time as a church custodian, the pastor who employed him said.
Clinton: 'I never made a racist comment'
(AP) - Former President Clinton concedes some lingering bitterness over the Democratic presidential campaign while asserting he "never made a racist comment" about Barack Obama.
But Clinton also says in a nationally broadcast interview Monday that a double-standard was applied by news organizations in the campaign that Obama won over his wife, Sen.
5 dead in plane crash on Vancouver Island
(AP) - A small plane crashed Sunday on northern Vancouver Island, killing five people, but two survivors were rescued after one of them sent a friend text messages giving their location.
Police: 40 killed in India as bus goes into river
(AP) - At least 40 farm laborers were killed and dozens more wounded after the overcrowded truck they were traveling in plunged into a river in northern India, police said Sunday.
Police tape: Canada bus killer ate victim's flesh
(AP) - A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.
Goodell wants Favre, Pack dispute solved by Monday
(AP) - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hopes to have Brett Favre's standoff with the Green Bay Packers resolved by Monday _ even if he has to force the issue.
In an interview with the NFL Network on Saturday, Goodell said, "I think we've gotten to the point where we kind of have to force it.