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The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots who died in a collision on a runway at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday have returned to Canada. Pilots carried the casket of Jazz Aviation first officer Mackenzie Gunther off a plane at the Ottawa International Airport on Thursday afternoon. Capt. Antoine Forest’s …
Read More »Man arrested for WNBA sex-toy throwing at N.Y. Liberty game
An Ohio man has been arrested for the throwing of a sex toy at a WNBA game in New York, police said Thursday. It’s the latest development in a string of disturbances where similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least three arrests. Charles …
Read More »Father of Canadian girl who was found dead in N.Y. charged with 2nd-degree murder
The Montreal father of the nine-year-old girl who was found dead after being reported missing in northeastern New York was arrested Monday morning and charged with second-degree murder and concealment of human corpse. A news release from New York State Police says officers from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office received a …
Read More »Upstate N.Y. tourism operators offering discounts to win back Canadians
George Daniels doesn’t expect the 25 per cent discount he’s offering Canadians to entice many visitors back to the bed and breakfast he runs in Upstate New York this summer. Canadians ordinarily make up 15 to 20 per cent of guests at the Keene Valley Lodge in the Adirondack High …
Read More »N.Y. moves to shield abortion medication prescriptions after Louisiana indicts doctor
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana. The new law, which took effect immediately, allows doctors to request …
Read More »Canadian freighter with 17 people on board remains stuck on Lake Erie near Buffalo, N.Y.
A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board remains in the ice on Lake Erie near Buffalo, N.Y., according to Omar Faba with the U.S. Coast Guard. It’s been frozen in the water since Wednesday. Efforts to break it free saw “progress” on Thursday, said Faba. However, work was called off …
Read More »Bodycam video shows officers beating handcuffed man before his death at N.Y. prison
Warning: This story and video contain details of violence. Newly released video of a fatal New York prison beating shows correctional officers repeatedly pummelling a handcuffed man, striking him in the chest with a shoe, and lifting him by the neck and dropping him. Body camera footage of the Dec. …
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