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Joey Martin Feek of country duo Joey and Rory is stopping cancer treatment. Joey+Rory’s Rory Feek shared a post on his “This Life I Live” blog, breaking the sad news that his beautiful wife Joey’s tumors have returned and more smaller ones are aggressively spreading. After being diagnosed with cervical cancer, Joey underwent a radical hysterectomy in 2014 and has …

A new study from the University of Regina suggests that teens are not texting and driving as frequently anymore. Research involving teenage drivers primarily in Ontario has found a decline in the frequency of texting and driving. “The good news is that we found a significant drop in the percentage of youth who reported “sometimes” to “almost always” texting and …

Talk Talk said it had received a ransom demand from somebody claiming to be behind the cyber attack on the British broadband company on Wednesday, which involved the possible theft of the details of 4 million customers. The telecoms giant announced last night that it had been subject to a “significant and sustained” cyber attack on Wednesday morning. Millions of …

Marty Ingels, a raspy-voiced comedian, actor and talent agent who was married to singer and actress Shirley Jones for nearly 40 years, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 79. Marty Ingels died Wednesday in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke, Jones’ manager, Milt Suchin, told the Associated Press. “He often drove me crazy, but there’s not a day I …

A statue of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine’s Odessa has been converted into a monument to Darth Vader — the city’s response to a law requiring the eradication of Communist Party symbols. The new Sith Lord statue — the first known of its kind — sits outside a factory in Odessa, which has been the site of clashes between …

Maris, a beluga whale housed at the Georgia Aquarium since November 2005, died Thursday afternoon. Maris was one of the first beluga whales at the aquarium, along with Grayson and Qinu. She was born in 1994 and arrived at the aquarium in 2005. Aquarium officials aren’t sure what led to her death.

James Okkerse, 62-year-old is dead, possibly after being attacked by an alligator, after disappearing for a short time while swimming Monday morning at Blue Spring State Park. The Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office in Florida has ruled his death as being consistent with an alligator attack, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. The four-metre alligator had previously been …

At least 43 people, most of them pensioners on a hiking trip, have been killed after the bus they were travelling in collided with a truck. Motorists desperately tried to smash windows of the burning bus to free passengers near Bordeaux, south-western France.

In an effort to keep Manitobans healthy and reduce the number of new cancer cases, the province’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Immunization Program will be expanded starting next year to include both males and females. Health Minister Sharon Blady said the province’s vaccine program will be expanded next year to include Grade 6 and Grade 9 boys as part of Manitoba’s …

A San Jose seafood restaurant in California is currently in hot water after customers have reportedly been sick due to food poisoning linked to Shigella bacteria. The California health officials is currently doing an investigation of the outbreak as they try to get to the bottom of the real source of the contamination. Individuals being reporting symptoms including fever, abdominal …

THE Discipline Committee Panel of the College of Dental Surgeons of BC hearing the Dr. Bobby Rishiraj case has suspended him from practice for three months, effective October 21, and fined him $50,000. The penalty was announced on Thursday after a hearing was held into Rishiraj’s actions that left one of his patients, Hamu Zindoga, with a severe brain injury.