MINFORD — A shooting incident has resulted in the death of a mother and her 16-year-old daughter in Minford Sunday night. The victims has been identified as Candace Newsome, 48, and her daughter Kristina Newsome, 16.

Researchers are learning more about the link between poor sleep and Alzheimer’s disease. Jeffrey Iliff, a brain scientist at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland spoke with NPR on the study. He told the news outlet the data on animal subjects showed the brain filters out toxins when they were asleep.

Rocco Ritchie ‘blocks mum Madonna on Instagram as rift over custody battle deepens’. After repeatedly cropping up in snaps on his mother’s social media page, it has been claimed that 15-year-old Rocco has taken further steps to cutting her out, by blocking her Instagram account from seeing his photos.

The woman facing charges in connection with a weekend accident in Saskatoon that took the lives of a Saskatoon couple and their two children made a brief court appearance Monday morning. RCMP confirmed a Saskatoon family of four in a Hyundai Elantra was traveling westbound on Highway 11 when they were hit by a Jeep Wrangler SUV that was trying …

Pastor Larry Wright disarms man with semiautomatic who walked into church. Pastor Larry Wright told WNCN that the gunman, armed with a rifle in one hand and ammo clip in the other, entered the Heal The Land Outreach Ministries’ sanctuary, where he was delivering his New Year’s Eve sermon to a congregation of about sixty people.

Pop star Britney Spears has kicked off 2016 by having a clumsy little mishap. Singer Britney Spears was literally stuck atop a tree after suffering a stage malfunction during her concert on Saturday. The 34-year-old pop star is currently performing shows as part of her Las Vegas residency series Britney: Piece of Me and when she graced the stage over …

Ford is determined not to let Google and Apple dictate its vehicle dashboards and now has a big partner. Toyota has agreed to adopt Ford’s open-source SmartDeviceLink (SDL) interface software, letting drivers access its Entune infotainment system. The company has resisted offering Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto, citing safety and security concerns, while Ford is offering them as apps …

Periodic table’s seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) verified the new elements last week, which were discovered by scientists in the U.S., Japan and Russia. “The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row,” Professor Jan Reedijk, …

Mio introduced a new fitness tracker called the Mio SLICE at CES Monday and, with it, a new kind of health index called the Personal Activity Intelligence index that supposedly helps practitioners live up to a decade longer. Mio’s patent-pending PAI algorithm is based on the HUNT Study, one of the largest health studies ever conducted in history, in which …

A 29-year-old woman from Halifax is dead after the snowmobile she was driving smashed into a tree. The woman was driving on a groomed trail at about 3 p.m. when she crashed into a tree, said RCMP spokesman Cst. Mark Skinner. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Kings District RCMP, Springfield-East Dalhousie Volunteer Fire Department, and EHS responded to …

Scientists have developed a new tool in the search for habitable planets in other solar systems by measuring the surface gravity of stars too distant to study with conventional methods. The new method has been developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada and University of Vienna in Austria. It will enable scientists to measure surface gravity …