Highway 401’s eastbound lanes from Marysville into Kingston have been closed due to a number of minor collisions.

Gunfire at a New Year’s house party shattered the predawn quiet in a sleepy Calgary neighbourhood Thursday morning, leaving one person dead and six wounded.

Florida Man Decapitates His Mother? An unthinkable crime that has many people searching for answers tonight after deputies say a man chopped off his mother’s head New Years Eve.

Chief William McCollom Says He Shot His Wife Accidentally, according to the Peachtree City Police Department, their chief of police, William McCollom, called emergency dispatchers Thursday morning to report he had accidentally shot his wife.

Spencer Crandall shot in Wise Co. may have been sleepwalking? No one may ever know what was going through the mind of a Texas man who was shot dead the morning after Christmas on a neighbor’s porch, but his relatives say they have a clue: He may have been sleepwalking.

The number of Americans dying from influenza and pneumonia has hit epidemic levels this winter as the nation faces the second-highest influenza rates since swine flu swept the country in 2009.

Lewis Rudolph, a co-founder of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., died Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 95. William Lewis Rudolph was a teenager when he joined his family’s emerging doughnut business during the Great Depression and helped open Nashville’s first Krispy Kreme shop.

Phu Lam was identified as the suspect in the series of murders that left the Canadian city of Edmonton in shock. Lam’s body was found yesterday at a restaurant.

It’s winter and it’s getting colder, but there are still good reasons to bundle up and enjoy the night sky. One reason is to catch a comet that is finally visible in Canada.

The Bloc Québécois closed off 2014 with yet another departure from its top ranks. Annie Lessard has resigned as the party’s vice-president after what an MP says was a conflict of personality with leader Mario Beaulieu.

Baby found starved to death in Florida, a couple in Florida were arrested on murder charges, after a medical examiner said their baby died from malnutrition as a result of starvation.