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A Pictou County cattle farmer, who lost his licence last summer after someone complained about his driving, says getting it back was an ordeal. Greg Murray, 71, described his experiences with employees at the Registry of Motor Vehicles as "civil servants gone berserk". Murray, who also works...

Police said they caught a man driving in the HOV lane in Oakville Wednesday with a blow-up doll in the passenger seat. Ontario Provincial Police said a driver phoned police to say it looked like the car didn't qualify to be in the high-occupancy lane. Burlington OPP Constable Graham Williamson...

(CNN) -- Miami Beach authorities are disputing an allegation by a witness to a fatal police shooting in Florida that his cell phone was "smashed" by officers because he filmed their actions. The police department denied Narces Benoit's claim that his phone was crushed by an officer last week...

<div>Two people were killed Monday when a car struck a bear on a rural Quebec highway and sent the animal crashing into a second vehicle. A Pontiac Sunfire travelling east slammed into a black bear at about 10:30 p.m. on Highway 148, near the town of Luskville, said the local police from MRC...

Kyle Gowen has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for at least 15 years, after admitting to killing Dillon Jewett last fall. Gowen, 23, of Eastern Passage, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder during an appearance in Kentville provincial court. Justice Suzanne Hood...

(CNN) -- An eyewitness to a fatal police shooting in Miami Beach last week claims police officers attempted to confiscate the video he filmed of the incident, and even crushed his phone underfoot in an attempt to destroy the recording. Narces Benoit says he just happened to be in the area...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Connecticut Senate narrowly approved legislation on Saturday that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The measure passed after Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman broke an 18-to-18 tie vote as the president of the state Senate. It now moves to...

(CNN) -- The company that operated a commercial tour bus involved in a deadly crash this week has been issued a cease-and-desist order after the U.S. Department of Transportation said it tried to resume operations under a different name. Four people were killed and 53 others injured Tuesday...

<div> A car collided with a Greyhound passenger bus in the B.C. Interior early Saturday, killing the woman behind the wheel of the car and injuring the bus driver and a passenger, the RCMP said. The accident occurred around 4 a.m. MT on Highway 3 between Fernie and Sparwood, near Hosmer, about...

ISLAMABAD Senior al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday. The death of the Pakistani militant...

Minneapolis (CNN) -- The FBI is investigating reports that a suicide bomber who killed two African Union soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, this week was an American citizen, an FBI spokesman said Thursday. "We're aware of the bomb that went off in Somalia and we have folks over there and are...

(CNN) -- The driver of a commercial tour bus that crashed earlier this week, killing four people, will be arraigned Friday. Kin Yiu Cheung, 37, of Flushing, New York, has been charged with reckless driving. Investigators blamed the wreck on driver fatigue. The Virginia State Police Motor...

These are some of the strange, weird and wacky stories of 2005: A taxi driver in Dallas, Texas, was prosecuted for...

Of the 40,000 people who turned up on Granville Street to celebrate the Canucks' victory over the Boston Bruins, only eight were arrested for being drunk or disorderly, Vancouver police say. Police poured out 325 items of confiscated liquor after the game, issued 31 tickets and made three drug...

(CNN) -- Police on Wednesday released the names of four women killed when a commercial tour bus ran off I-95 and overturned early Tuesday in Caroline County, Virginia. The victims were identified as Karen Blyden-Decastro, 46, of Cambria Heights, New York; Sie Giok Giang, 63, of Philadelphia...

Diyarbakir, Turkey (CNN) -- At a campaign rally in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried Wednesday to draw parallels between the oppression and persecution Turkey's largest ethnic minority has faced and the pressure...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The NCAA is interested in Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor's cars. The state of Ohio says he shouldn't be driving one. Pryor was seen driving a sports car to a team meeting on Monday hours after coach Jim Tressel's forced resignation, even though his Ohio driving...

Criminal charges were filed by Federal Prosecutors against a man who climbed into a crate and had himself shipped by air from...

(CNN) -- The murder trial of Casey Anthony continues Wednesday, a day after a friend testified that Anthony was growing more frustrated with her parents around the time her 2-year-old daughter disappeared. Amy Huizenga on Tuesday told jurors that the two were previously close friends and that...

Beijing (CNN) -- Chinese authorities Monday arrested dozens of demonstrators in Hohhot as protests spread to the provincial capital and other cities in Inner Mongolia despite tightened security and reports of martial law, activists told CNN. "Several hundred people, mostly students and ordinary...