Authorities in northeast Japan are deep into the search for unknown thousands of missing people long after overwhelming earthquake and resulting tsunami. So far the official death count from the Friday catastrophes has reached 700, but it is recognized that the final count will most probably be well over 1,000 dead, but it could be [...]

Vancouver police have begun an excavation in a basement of a townhouse in East Vancouver after a man from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, contacted then to report that he witnessed his father murdering his mother in the townhouse over thirty years ago. Robert Sturcz, 38, reported that when he was 5, Aladar Sturcz, his 350 [...]

The Surrey RCMP reports that a thirty-six-year-old woman killed her fifty-two-year-old mother when she drove her SUV into her mother in the garage of a residence in Surrey today. RCMP Corporal Drew Grainger remarked that it appears the SUV in some way suddenly accelerated and struck the mother, who incurred overwhelming injuries. The mother died [...]

In the early morning hours of February 26th, a twenty-two-year-old university exchange student, Austin Bice, from San Diego State, disappeared after leaving a discothèque in Madrid, Spain. Police, along with the family and friends have moved the search into high gear searching for Bice after visiting a Madrid nightclub over one week ago. Friends say [...]

The Canadian government has ordered the HMCS Charlottetown to Libya as part of an international flotilla that is a military show of force as a response the Moammar Gadhafi’s violent crackdown on the protesters in his country. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an announcement in the House of Commons question period on Tuesday that the [...]

A Pentagon spokesperson states that U.S. armed forces are redeploying their air and naval forces around Libya to give flexibility when conclusions are drawn. Col. David Lapan also commented to Reuters that there are a variety of emergency plans for the North African nation, where loyal Gadhafi supporters and insurgents continue to be locked in [...]

Dawn on Friday saw the search for survivors continuing following the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand on Tuesday.  Hundreds of people are still missing and time is running out on the hope of finding survivors in the devastation.  The hope for finding missing family members is fading fast. Police report that the [...]

Riley will be keeping warm a little less stylishly for the rest of the winter. Riley is a Cocker Spaniel that lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.  He was waiting in his master’s car in a parking lot in downtown Regina on February 17th while his master, Garrett Wilson, ran into a building for a quick errand.  [...]

A judge in the United Kingdom has determined that Julian Assange can be expelled to Sweden to face allegations of sex crimes.  The judgment prompted Assange to say that he would be filing an appeal of the decision. Judge Howard Riddle commented that the claims of molestation and rape by 2 women in Sweden in [...]

Expressen, a Swedish tabloid, is reporting that the ex minister of justice in Libya is claiming that Moammar Gadhafi, himself, ordered the bombing of Flight 103 of Pan Am airlines in 1988 that blew up over Scotland and claimed the lives of 270 passengers. On Wednesday, Expressen, printed what they say is a quotation from [...]