A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday, killing nearly 3,000 people and damaging buildings in a swath of destruction stretching from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. The full death toll was not known as rescuers struggled to get through boulder-strewn roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest.
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Tributes are pouring in for Dr. Tracy Pickett, a Vancouver doctor who was found dead on Thursday.Pickett, 55, went missing from her home in the Dunbar area Tuesday night, according to her family.Vancouver police launched an investigation into her disappearance on Wednesday and said they found her remains in the Southlands neighbourhood Thursday.Pickett's brother says his family is "devastated" by the news. "My sister was my hero," Iain Pickett said in a Facebook message to CBC.Pickett's death do
Sydney Powell struck her mother, Brenda Powell, in the head with an iron skillet, then stabbed her nearly 30 times in the neck in March 2020, prosecutors said
The owners of the Alpine Bakery in Whitehorse say they're temporarily closing their downtown business because of issues related to the nearby emergency shelter.The bakery is on the same block as the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter, which opened at 405 Alexander Street in 2017. Walter and Silvia Streit live above their bakery and says that noise from shelter users has kept them up at night and led to health issues. They also spoke of repeated instances of trespassing and the discovery of needles and
Orlando Young, 23, was arrested on charges of child neglect and great bodily harm
A nearby Delta passenger awoke and stopped the assault on the flight to Florida, federal prosecutors say.
PC Ravi Canhye is on trial at Winchester Crown Court.
Chapman's sisters say she was married to the suspect
The president of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada is defending a Second World War veteran of a Nazi unit who was recently lauded as a hero in Canada's Parliament. Jurij Klufas has not met 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka but says the veteran is being treated unfairly. He says Hunka was fighting for Ukraine — not Germany — and that countries, including Canada, have cleared his division of war crimes. "If you're a soldier doesn't mean you're a member of a certain party from the country," Kluf
WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.Sentencing has begun for a Nova Scotia man accused of sex offences involving two young girls.Peter Alan Moorhouse, 50, appeared in provincial court in Shubenacadie, N.S., on Friday for the long-delayed sentencing hearing. Moorhouse was charged back in January 2021 and pleaded guilty without requiring a trial. But his case has been delayed repeatedly while his la
Ottawa police are warning about a recent increase in door-to-door contractor scams, with five reports in the past two weeks costing residents an estimated $250,000.The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) said in a Friday news release the scam always follows the same basic pattern.The scam artists typically move in pairs and claim to be contractors working on a neighbour's home, OPS said. At the door, they say they can offer a great deal on expensive construction work costing upwards of $100,000, such as
Seven of the eight men told police the former officer kidnapped them.
A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days before he was supposed to be sentenced for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot was found unconscious by federal agents after he tried to “covertly return” to his home, the FBI said on Friday. Christopher Worrell, of Naples, Florida, was taken to a hospital where he remained on Friday, according to the FBI's Tampa office. The FBI did not provide further details about his condition. Authorities had been searching for weeks for Worrell,
Fulton County Sheriff’s OfficeScott Hall, the former Fulton County Republican poll watcher and bail bondsman, has become the first of Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants to take a plea agreement with Fulton County prosecutors in their sprawling racketeering case. Hall was initially charged with seven felonies for his connection to a breach of voting systems in Coffee County. In a Friday court appearance before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, he pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor cou
The woman and her daughter are from Georgia, police say.
Edmonton police say they are investigating the death of a man in a mall parkade after he stood up through the sunroof of a car and was struck by a beam. Officers responded to the call Thursday at West Edmonton Mall. They were told a sedan had been travelling through the mall parkade when the 18-year-old passenger stood up. As the car passed underneath a ramp, the man was struck by a concrete beam. Emergency workers treated the man at the scene and took him to hospital, but he died of his injurie
A high-ranking Toronto police officer has pleaded guilty to seven police act charges after interfering with the force's internal promotions process by providing confidential information to multiple officers ahead of their interviews.During a hearing on Thursday, Supt. Stacy Clarke, who has been with Toronto police since 1998, pleaded guilty to three counts of breach of confidence, three counts of discreditable conduct, and one count of insubordination linked to incidents that happened in 2021.Cl
George Murdoch was attacked while working as a taxi driver near Aberdeen.
Solano County sheriff's deputies wheel Fred Cain III into the courtroom. Now 69 years old, gray-haired and handcuffed in a wheelchair, Cain faces murder, kidnapping and other felonies in the 1987 death of 6-year-old Jeremy Stoner. The judge is holding Cain on no bail and continued the arraignment until Oct. 12. Stoner's mother and brother were also in the courtroom. Karen Tabler sat down with KCRA 3's Michelle Bandur before the court hearing.
LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury on Thursday found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who followed him around a mall food court earlier this year. Alan Colie, 31, was acquitted of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting of Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the “Classified Goons” YouTube channel. The jury was split though on two lesser firearms counts, and decided to convict him on one and acquit him on the other. The April 2 shooting at the food court in Dulles Town Cen
BALTIMORE (AP) — Before being assigned to investigate President Joe Biden’s son, Leo Wise built a reputation in Baltimore as a tough and hard-charging federal prosecutor, taking on powerful, and seemingly untouchable, figures — whether a gang of corrupt cops, a police commissioner, a top local prosecutor and even a mayor. Wise’s backers call him talented and savvy, with a knack for navigating complex, headline-generating cases. To detractors, he’s stubborn and uncompromising as well as self-prom
