Firefighters combine technology & canned tuna to rescue kitten
Sydney’s firefighters used a thermal imaging camera and a tin of tuna to rescue a kitten stuck in a drain! Video credit Fire and Rescue NSW
Sydney’s firefighters used a thermal imaging camera and a tin of tuna to rescue a kitten stuck in a drain! Video credit Fire and Rescue NSW
A little more than 25 years ago, John Douglas Carnahan bought the rights to two burial plots in the northeast corner of a hilly cemetery in a dense area of Burnaby, B.C. Back then, they cost $750 each. As years passed and space grew scarce, the cost of a single plot in the same cemetery surged to more than $10,000. After Carnahan's death at 91, his widow decided not to use the plots. Her battle for the right to sell the plots privately to any buyer at market value has now spilled over into B.C.
The Met Police haven’t had a great week, but spare a thought for South African police chiefs. Later this year they may find themselves facing the trickiest diplomatic decision of modern times: whether to arrest Vladimir Putin if he turns up for the summit of Brics nations, planned for Durban in late August.
"We've had chickens here in the city that had to be removed. But never a crocodile," a local code enforcement officer told Insider.
After training at the gym on Monday, Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Milmerstadt "developed a severe headache, which was later determined to be a serious injury"
A Pennsylvania woman linked to a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where she invaded then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office with other rioters. Riley June Williams, 23, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged but not convicted of helping steal a laptop from Pelosi’s office suite during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. A federal jury convicted Williams in November of six charges, including a felony count of civil disorder, after a two-week trial.
“Don’t let me die,” one witness recalled her saying.
A hunger strike started by a group of McMaster University students on Monday is taking a toll on their bodies, but they are determined to continue until the university takes action, a member of the group said Thursday. The students want the university to reverse the decision to install four natural gas-powered generators on Cootes Drive in Hamilton. Navin Garg, one of the students with the McMaster Divestment Project who is striking, said they abstained from food since 11 a.m. on Monday. "I thin
TORONTO — York Regional Police have issued Canada-wide warrants for two new suspects in connection with an alleged attack on a 37-year-old woman who was later abducted from an Ontario town. Police say Elnaz Hajtamiri was violently assaulted with a frying pan in an underground parking lot in Richmond Hill, Ont., on Dec. 20, 2021. Investigators say Hajtamiri was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while the suspects fled in a vehicle, and three people were identified and charged i
A woman dressed as a janitor, complete with a vacuum cleaner mounted on her back, is wanted on suspicion of stealing large amounts of cash from ATMs in banks across B.C.'s Upper Fraser Valley. According to Chilliwack RCMP, a series of four break-ins and ATM thefts involving the same suspect were reported at major banks in July 2021. In all four crimes, the suspect was wearing a bright blue collared shirt, dark pants, a dark baseball cap, a medical mask, latex gloves and a backpack-style vacuum c
Idaho Supreme Court ruled that dog’s actions made 2019 search of vehicle illegal
Two young boys who were found dead with their mother in their south London home had been strangled, an inquest has heard.
EDMONTON — A 16-year-old boy who fatally shot two officers at an apartment complex one week ago had been apprehended in November under the Mental Health Act and was taken to hospital for assessment, Edmonton police said Thursday. Police also said the boy's gun was the same weapon used in another shooting days before at a nearby restaurant that left a man injured. Deputy Chief Devin Laforce said a bullet casing recovered from the Pizza Hut was forensically matched to the gun recovered from the ap
Stephen Smith’s mother spoke out after SLED announced that her son’s death was finally being investigated as a homicide
Authorities said the incident was an accident.
Congressman Maxwell Frost walked out of House hearing after apologising to Parkland father violently arrested.
A grieving mother believes unsanitary living conditions at the Ottawa motel where she and her five children were placed to live last summer contributed to the death of her two-year-old son earlier this month. Gloria Luhaka, who fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been living with her five children — including twin toddlers — at the Travelodge by Wyndham Ottawa West on Carling Avenue for the past seven months. The City of Ottawa placed the family at the motel, which is amon
The Keewatin Tribal Council declared a regional state of emergency on Thursday afternoon to draw attention to the "dire" situations on the northern Manitoba communities and to urge immediate government action. The tribal council is made up of 11 communities, including Shamattawa First Nation and God's Lake First Nation, which have already declared states of emergency in the last six months. The regional state of emergency was prompted by system-wide deficiencies in public safety, health services
Nicky McHale said he saw Thomas Cashman in the garden of a house at the time of the shooting.
Gary Campbell admitted sexual abuse charges involving children as young as four.
Police found the dog sitting in front of its owner’s apartment after the crash.