Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness told CBC News Network that there were about 1,000 people in shelters as of Thursday morning, but he expected that number to go down by the end of the day as the danger posed by Hurricane Beryl moves toward Mexico. Holness, who is heading out to survey the damage, said he expects the Montego Bay airport to be open 'before the day is out.'
The powerful storm has passed, but torrential rain has prompted new warnings.
See how things stand right now for Caribbean travel.
Married schoolteachers bought their dream home in Sun Valley. Then a mentally ill neighbor's hoarding turned it into a prison.
WARNING: This story contains discussion of intimate partner violence and suicide.Three family members in Harrow, Ont., south of Windsor, died of gunshot wounds in June, the Ontario Provincial Police announced on Saturday.Carly Walsh, 41, and her children, Madison, 13, and Hunter, 8 — who were found dead in their home on June 20 — died of gunshots wounds, OPP Sgt. Ed Sanchez said in a video posted to OPP West Region's social media accounts.Sanchez also said that Steve Walsh, Carly's husband and t
Tabatha Sullivent and her family were celebrating her daughter’s 15th birthday at the south Texas beach when their world turned upside down.
TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Beryl moved into the the Gulf of Mexico Friday and took aim at the south Texas coast after battering Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Texas officials issued disaster declarations and urge coastal residents to prepare as the storm headed their way.
Malinda Hoagland died in May. She was emaciated, weighing just 50 lbs., and had several broken bones
WOODSTOCK, ONT. — Police in Woodstock, Ont., say a man is dead after he shot his partner outside a home then suffered an apparent gunshot wound. Police say the woman is recovering in hospital after Thursday's daylight shooting in a suburban part of the small city about 60 kilometres west of Hamilton. Woodstock police did not immediately say how the man was shot, or whether his injuries were self-inflicted, but an inspector did say he shot the woman first. A police news release says there is no t
Two teenagers died while swimming at New York's Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn, police said.
Police say they have made two arrests in the deadly afternoon stabbing of a 39-year-old man at a Toronto subway station. Toronto police say Matthew Rumble was fatally stabbed at Jane station last month by a man who then reportedly fled with the scene with a woman. Police say a 22-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were both arrested Thursday in Waterloo, Ont., with the help of local police. The man, from Kitchener, has been charged with second-degree murder and the woman, from a small community
OTTAWA — The Opposition Conservatives vowed Friday that a future Pierre Poilievre-led government would remove the man the Liberals just appointed to lead the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Tropical Storm Beryl was moving over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Friday, but is expected to impact parts of south Texas later this weekend.
The woman was reportedly charged with three counts of child endangerment and was released on bond
Lauren Johansen, 22, was found dead, before her ex-boyfriend and suspected killer Bricen Rivers allegedly led police on a chase, per authorities
This population of people has grown faster in South Carolina than the rest of the U.S., new Census data shows. Here’s what’s happening.
The fallout continues for celebrity chef Justin Sutherland, who was arrested June 28 in Minnesota for threatening to kill his girlfriend. A nonprofit in St. Paul said Friday that it’s canceling its partnership with Sutherland to develop a new concept for Golden Thyme Coffee and Café, which the nonprofit’s trust bought when the cafe’s owners …
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Records tumbled across the West as a slow-moving heat wave of potentially historic proportions tightened its grip from the Pacific Northwest to Arizona on Friday, sending many residents in search of a cool haven from the dangerously high temperatures.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The minister for the two islands in Grenada that Hurricane Beryl first slammed into with catastrophic winds had a simple message for U.N. and other humanitarian officials who asked what was needed: “Anything that would allow a human being to survive.”
TORONTO — Workers for Ontario's main liquor retailer, who say the government's plan to open up the alcohol market poses an existential threat to their jobs, are now on strike, with stores expected to stay closed for at least 14 days.
New York City authorities reported that three people were killed and eight others injured, three critically, after a pickup truck drove into a group celebrating the Fourth of July. (AP video by John Minchello)
