HALIFAX — In a story on Dec. 2, The Canadian Press erroneously reported that Nova Scotia lawyer Donn Fraser's guilty plea for obstructing a public officer involved an incident with an off-duty RCMP officer. In fact, the obstruction charge to which he pleaded guilty stemmed from another incident.
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WARNING: This story contains details of abuse of children at residential schoolsThe trial of an Ottawa nun accused of sex crimes at northern Ontario residential and day schools in the 1960s and 1970s will not proceed after a stay of proceedings was granted due to evidence issues.Francoise Seguin, 98, is the third nun and eighth worker overall to face criminal charges in relation to abuse at St. Anne's Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont.Seguin, of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, appe
"If the genders were reversed, there are few who would believe that leniency is appropriate," prosecutors reportedly told the court
William Vosler and his wife Eileen Vosler were found dead inside a freezer along with notes stating when they'd died
Exclusive: Anthony Williams “spent his life fighting crime, and now to be accused of a crime so heinous as trafficking his own wife is unfathomable,” attorney Jasmine Rand told The Independent.
Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, of Ohio, was convicted in 2023 of killing her boyfriend and a friend after crashing into a car
David Lever, 55, is facing three murder charges after the shooting in Greenville, North Carolina on Friday, Jan. 10
Marvil Facturan-Kocjančič, a native of the Philippines, was killed seven days after arriving in Slovenia
Allison Field says her family felt more like hostages than guests of a Marriott resort in Mexico when they got severely ill and were pressured by staff to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Wayne Sefton Davis told one of his victims that he ‘needed to teach her how to pleasure her husband’ and wanted to check that another was ‘a virgin’.
Police in India's southern state of Kerala have arrested 44 men accused of raping an 18-year-old girl over a period of five years, a police official said on Tuesday, in a case that has shocked the coastal tourist resort. Police have identified 58 of those men, some of whom are minors and arrested 44 over the last two days, officials said. The case came to light after the girl narrated the gang rape to a volunteer during a gender awareness programme.
Semina Halliwell, who was 12, died on June 12 2021, three days after she took her mother’s prescription medicine.
An unidentified man is seen in a video from India harassing an elephant while onlookers screamed and hollered in apparent disapproval. Parveen Kaswan of the Indian Forest Service posted the video on X where commenters were relentless in their harsh criticism, calling for…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A witness broke down in tears as she described children carrying heavy objects on hilly terrain at the home of a West Virginia couple who were later arrested after two of their five adopted children were found locked in an outbuilding.
HALIFAX — Family members of a 60-year-old Nova Scotia woman killed by her partner say she was an "effortlessly funny" person who could also be lovingly honest and direct.
A man accused of abducting an Edmonton junior high student over the U.S. border and sexually abusing her has pleaded guilty to two federal U.S. charges.Noah Madrano, 43, was arrested by FBI agents in July 2022 in Oregon City, Ore., with police saying he was found with the 13-year-old girl who had been missing for more than a week.CBC News is not naming the girl, or her family members, to protect her identity as a minor.Madrano admitted Monday in the U.S. District Court of Oregon to two of the si
Family Ties star Justine Bateman put Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on blast as “disaster tourists” after they handed out food and other supplies at an evacuation center for victims of the L.A. fires. The former teen star, now 58, played Mallory Keaton alongside Michael J. Fox in the hit series, which ran for seven seasons and earned Bateman two Emmy nominations, in 1986 and 1987. Bateman attacked the couple after they were filmed speaking with victims and first responders, writing online over t
Jimmy Kimmel was visibly emotional in his monologue Monday as he reacted to the devastating wildfires throughout Los Angeles county. “It’s been a very scary, very stressful, very strange week here in L.A.,“ said Kimmel, tearing up. ”Where we work, where we live, where our kids go to school.” He showed a clip of the fires near the El Capitan Theatre, where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is filmed.
Police say that the woman was alleged sexually abused and gangraped when she was a minor.
Calgary police struggled to control the violence and destruction carried out by two groups of Eritrean Calgarians, a judge heard Monday, as one detective testified it took nearly 200 officers as well as tear gas grenades and nearly 2,000 rounds of PepperBalls to separate the clashing sides. A trial began Monday for five men accused of participating in what police and prosecutors have described as a riot. The five men — Amanuel Kiflezgi Sium, Yamin Okubahanes, Gebrekid Hailemariam, Musie Estifano
A B.C. RCMP officer has been charged with sexual assault and uttering threats on Vancouver Island.According to B.C. court records, Jason Ellias Sammoun is charged with two counts of sexual assault in Nanaimo and one count of uttering threats in Victoria.All three incidents are alleged to have occurred on April 1, 2024. B.C.'s Prosecution Service said in an email that the investigation was conducted by Nanaimo RCMP and that the charges are "sexual assault causing bodily harm, choking during the c
