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A former senior Lamont, Alta., town official has been arrested and awaits charges for allegedly attempting to extract kickbacks from a Quebec property developer who had fled construction-industry corruption in his home province. More...

An attractive lady from Seattle was driving through a remote part of Texas when her car broke down. A local on horseback came along and offered her a ride to the nearest town. She climbed up behind him on the horse and they rode off. The ride was pretty uneventful except that every few...

A town in New York state can use its zoning powers to ban drilling for natural gas, a judge ruled Tuesday. Justice Phillip R. Rumsey of the New York Supreme Court -- the trial-level court in the state -- ruled in favor of the town of Dryden, The New York Times reported. Dryden, a town of about...

A family of four were among those killed when an SUV collided head-on with a semi-trailer outside the town of McLeese Lake, B.C., the Prince George Citizen reports. More...

AP - In this town which saw 24 unarmed civilians die in a U.S. raid seven years ago, residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time. More...

AP - Investigators said Tuesday they believe the same man who fatally shot a New Hampshire couple near a scenic northern Arizona resort town also killed a sheriff's deputy several days later in Phoenix. More...

AP - Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to protesters' accounts and TV footage. More...

AP - It was in this hardscrabble town in Tunisia's arid interior that exactly one year ago the death knell sounded for the decades-old system of dictatorships across the Arab world. More...

WISHTATA, Libya (AP) — Libyan fighters launched a two-pronged assault Friday on one of the last towns to resist the country's new rulers, clashing with Moammar Gadhafi's supporters inside Bani Walid as a weeklong standoff dissolved into street-to-street battles, the revolutionary forces said...

TELLURIDE, Colo (TheWrap.com) - It's official: Telluride is George Clooney's town now. Everyone else -- Glenn Close, Tilda Swinton, Jennifer Garner, the dogs, the hippies, even the Lauren and Bush clans up in the mountains -- just lives in it. The 38th annual festival may have peaked at the...

Syrian troops using tanks and helicopters pushed toward a northern town Tuesday after arresting hundreds of people in villages near Jisr al-Shughour, residents said, as more refugees fled to Turkey. More than 8,500 Syrians have sought shelter across the border to escape President Bashar...

Syrian troops rounded up hundreds of people in a sweep through villages near Jisr al-Shughour on Monday, fleeing residents said, after President Bashar al-Assad's army retook the rebellious town. Nearly 7,000 Syrians have already fled the region around Jisr al-Shughour, seeking sanctuary in...

Syrian tanks and helicopters stormed the town of Jisr al-Shughour on Sunday, residents said, and state television reported heavy clashes between army troops and gunmen opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. More than 5,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the border and a UNHCR spokesman said the...

Indian Trail, North Carolina (CNN) -- At every corner and every stoplight in this town some 15 miles southeast of Charlotte, the signs staked in the ground have one message: "Homes ready now." Brandon Oaks, Taylor Glenn, Shiloh Trace -- each subdivision off Wesley Chapel Road has new homes or...

Highway 75, the main route between Winnipeg and the USA, is open again after being closed for 29 days due to flooding. A section of highway north of the town of Morris was cleared of clay dikes Monday afternoon. Morris Mayor Gavin Van Der Linde said traffic started flowing right away. "I'm...

Highway 75, the main route between Winnipeg and the USA, is open again after being closed for 29 days due to flooding. A section of highway north of the town of Morris was cleared of clay dikes Monday afternoon. Morris Mayor Gavin Van Der Linde said traffic started flowing right away. "I'm...

UTTE LAROSE, La. – Over the next few days, water spewing through a Mississippi River floodgate will crawl through the swamps of Louisiana's Cajun country, chasing people and animals to higher ground while leaving much of the land under 10 to 20 feet of water. Most people had cleared out of the...

JOHANNESBURG – Unknown attackers wielding machetes and guns killed more than 1,000 civilians in the neighborhood of an Ivory Coast town controlled by forces fighting to install the internationally recognized president, the Catholic charity Caritas told The Associated Press Saturday. The U.N...

Moammar Gadhafi's forces have reached the outskirts of another rebel stronghold after making recent gains in Libya's west. A resident and a rebel fighter in Ajdabiya (ajh-DAH-bee-yah) say government fire is pounding the city's entrance. The resident says warplanes are taking aim at fuel depots...

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