BBC News The rate of police-reported crime in Canada dropped 6% in 2011, and is now at its lowest level since 1972, says the national statistics agency. Excluding traffic offences, 1,984,916 incidents were reported last year, marking the eighth consecutive…
BBC News Twenty-four people have been arrested during a fourth night of violence after fatal weekend police shootings of two men in Anaheim, California. The violence mounted outside City Hall as council members voted unanimously to investigate the incidents. About…
CBC News The husband of a Manitoba judge under investigation for nude photos is steadfastly defending her, saying she was unaware that the photos were being shared on the Internet. Jack King is testifying for a second day in Winnipeg…
BBC News US Roman Catholic Monsignor William Lynn has been sentenced to three to six years in jail for covering up a sex abuse complaint against a priest. Lynn supervised hundreds of priests in his role as secretary for clergy…
CBC News The New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons is using two complaints against a Bathurst eye specialist to help justify its decision to suspend him from practising in the province. Dr. Tarek Youssef, an ophthalmologist, has beenprohibited from…
BBC News James Holmes, 24, sat in court in a red jail suit with dyed orange hair, and appeared sleepy during the proceedings. Nine of 58 people wounded by the gunman remain in critical condition. On Sunday, President Barack Obama…
CBC News Lawyers for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt and a number of other defendants told an Ottawa court today that the lawsuit against them by Helena Guergis is full of bald allegations with no facts to…
BBC News Relatives of three Americans killed in drone strikes in Yemen are suing top Pentagon and CIA officials, saying the killings were unconstitutional. Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan died in September. Awlaki’s son Abdulrahman, 16, died in October.…
CBC News Toronto police are engaged in a “relentless” pursuit for the people responsible for a shooting in the city’s east end that left two people dead and 21 others with gunshot injuries, Chief Bill Blair told reporters this morning.…
The Jurist The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles [official website] on Monday rejected [press release] a clemency bid by death row inmate Warren Hill who was convicted of two counts of murder but argues he should not be…