Category: News

Colorado Springs, Colo.- The NJCAA National Office announced this week’s NJCAA Softball Players of the Week for games played Feb. 12-18.    — Courtesy of NJCAA

TORONTO — The Toronto police’s sexual crimes unit has to date investigated eight incidents at a private Roman Catholic all-boys school rocked by student-on-student abuse “Sex-Assault Squad Investigated 8 St. Michael's College School Incidents, Police Say”

Heroic teenager, Ivan Krapivin, who received horrific head wounds in an attempt to protect his mom from a drunken neighbor, has died in hospital after “Young boy wounded protecting mom from drunken ex-con dies not knowing she abandoned him”

OTTAWA — Mail service will resume all across the country at noon Tuesday after the Senate passed legislation ordering an end to five weeks of “Canada Post Strike To End As Senate Passes Back-To-Work Legislation”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. –Malone’s Bailey Byers and Grand Valley State’s Allison Lipovsky were named 2019 Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division II National Player and Pitcher of the Week “Malone’s Byers, GVSU’s Lipovsky garner 2019 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division II weekly honors”

The European Union’s economic sanctions against Russia will be extended for another six months, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. The measures targeting Russia’s “Russia says it’s business as usual, EU sanctions extension changes nothing”

The ongoing government shutdown in the United States could soon start to negatively impact the country’s debt ceiling, ratings agency Fitch said. The US runs “US risks losing triple-A sovereign credit rating over shutdown, Fitch warns”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Neshoba Central won twice to extend its victory streak to 35 and take over the top spot in the USA Today Sports/NFCA High “Neshoba takes over top spot in USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 Poll”

TORONTO — Ontario’s finance minister says the province will be moving ahead with an expansion of beer and wine sales into corner stores, big box “Vic Fideli Says More Wine, Beer Coming To Ontario Grocery And Corner Stores”

The latest report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed that sales of arms and military services by global majors totaled $398.2 billion in “Lords of war: US weapons factories dominate global arms trade”