The RCMP say the father of a girl who is the subject of an Amber Alert has been found dead inside a home in southwestern Alberta. The dead man has been identified as 27-year-old Terry Blanchette of Blairmore. Police are investigating his death as a homicide and say it’s related to the disappearance of two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette.

A Kentucky State Police trooper was shot and killed late Sunday night during a high-speed chase along I-24 in Lyon County. Police were looking for 25-year-old Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks of Missouri.

Patrick Carney has accused Jack White of trying to start a fight with him when the two bumped into each other at a New York City bar last night. White and The Black Keys have a colourful and far from amicable past, which reignited last year when emails sent from White to his estranged wife Meg White were leaked, which …

Bow, New Hampshire Police are trying to track down the owner of an emu that has been spotted wandering around town. Bow police said the emu has been spotted wandering around town. Police do not know where the emu belongs, but said there have been three sightings since Saturday morning.

DNA evidence cleared Lewis Fogle of participation in the rape and murder of a 15-year-old, and he was released last month before a formal decision on his charges. That freedom became permanent Monday as District Attorney Patrick Dougherty declared he would not seek to retry Fogle in the death of Deann Katherine Long. Dougherty filed a motion before visiting Senior …

A history professor was shot and killed and the campus was on lockdown at Delta State University after an active shooter was reported at the school on Monday. Ethan Schmidt, an American history professor, was killed at Delta State University, Mississippi just before 11am local time. Students and staff were advised to stay away from windows while police attempted to …

Mount Aso, one of Japan’s most active volcano sites, erupted Monday, sending a plume of thick black smoke and ash more than a mile into the air and disrupting flights, authorities said. There have been no immediate reports of injuries or damage since Mount Aso’s eruption on Monday and authorities have raised the alert level in the area, preventing people …

Police reported an active shooter near MIT’s Cambridge campus late Sunday afternoon. A woman in her mid-20s was shot in the leg on Portland Street, off Main Street, according to Cambridge police spokesman Jeremy Warnick. She suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is being treated at a local hospital, he said.

The first massive binary star, epsilon Lupi, in which both stars have magnetic fields has been discovered by a PhD candidate. A binary star is a star system consisting of two or more stars, orbiting around their common center of mass. Around 1/3 of stars in our Galaxy are thought to be in binary systems, where two or more stars …

A 20-year-old man was charged with impaired driving twice Sunday by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. In the first incident, RNC officers stopped the driver on the Main Roads in Goulds. He was charged with impaired driving and refusing to take the breathalyzer.

Construction is underway to widen the bike and pedestrian lane on the Stanley Park Causeway. The $7-million project to improve safety on the narrow road that connects downtown Vancouver to the Lions Gate Bridge came about after a 61-year-old woman was killed while cycling in 2013. She was struck by a bus after falling onto the street in order to …