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• Yoshida hits a grand slam and drives in 6 as the Red Sox rout the Cubs 11-5 behind Crawford

  16-07-2023 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Masataka Yoshida hit a grand slam and a two-run triple, powering Kutter Crawford and the Boston Red Sox to an 11-5 blowout over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
  Rafael Devers and pinch-hitter Triston Casas also homered for the surging Red Sox, who have won seven of eight. Crawford allowed one hit in six shutout innings.Yoshida launched the second grand slam of his rookie season in Boston’s five-run fifth against All-Star lefty Justin Steele. Yoshida connected for his 11th h
  
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• Wimbledon 2023: Carlos Alcaraz wins the title at the All England Club by beating Novak Djokovic

  16-07-2023 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz will head to New York in August to defend his U.S. Open title as a two-time Grand Slam champion.
  That’s because he managed to shake off a poor start and beat Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 on Sunday.
  That gave Alcaraz his first trophy at the All England Club and prevented Djokovic from winning his fifth in a row and eighth overall there.
  It also kept Djokovic from increasing his men’s-record total of 23
  
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• Many questions after police say gunman fired on officers in North Dakota, killing 1 and wounding 2

  16-07-2023 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Many questions remained Sunday about what led a gunman in Fargo, North Dakota, to open fire on police officers as they were responding to a traffic crash. One officer was killed and two others were critically wounded before the gunman was killed by a fourth officer.The shooting happened Friday afternoon along a busy street, and roughly nine hours passed before authorities told the public that officers were shot. On Saturday, Fargo’s police chief released the names of the officers and the n
  
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• Lionel Messi set to be unveiled by Inter Miami and Major League Soccer

  16-07-2023 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The stage is set. Lionel Messi is about to meet his new fans at Inter Miami.
  An event billed as “The Unveil” is Sunday night at the team’s stadium in Fort Lauderdale. It comes one day after Messi, Major League Soccer and Inter Miami finalized his signing through the 2025 season.
  It’s the start of a busy week of events for Messi with his new club. His first official training session that will be open to reporters is set for Tuesday and &m
  
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• Hsieh Su-Wei and Barbora Strycova win second women’s doubles title together at Wimbledon

  16-07-2023 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic won their second Wimbledon doubles title as a pairing by beating Elise Mertens of Belgium and Storm Hunter of Australia 7-5, 6-4 Sunday on Centre Court.
  Hsieh converted their second match point with a backhand as the 2019 champions broke in the final game of the second set.
  Strycova came out of retirement this year after giving birth to a son, and said she expects this to be her last Wimbledon.
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• Novak Djokovic rues his missed chances after losing a highly entertaining Wimbledon final in 5 sets

  16-07-2023 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Regrets? Novak Djokovic has two.
  There was that tiebreaker pretty early in the Wimbledon final on Sunday, when the 36-year-old Serb was one point from taking a two-sets-to-none lead over his 20-year-old opponent, Carlos Alcaraz.
  And then there was that missed volley on break point early in the fifth set with all the momentum at that stage going the seven-time Wimbledon champion’s way.
  “Some regrets,” Djokovic said after losing 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1,
  
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• Georgia suspect in 4 killings shot and killed, 2 officers hurt durigng encounter, official says

  16-07-2023 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Law enforcement officers shot and killed a man wanted in the weekend killings of four people near Atlanta, and a sheriff’s deputy and a police officer were hurt during the attempt to take the suspect into custody, an official said.
  Henry County Sheriff’s spokesperson Syntonnia Moore said suspect Andre Longmore was fatally shot during a widespread search for the 40-year-old man. The manhunt began shortly after the shootings Saturday morning in a subdivision o
  
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• Coulombe retires Arraez for final out as the Orioles top the Marlins 5-4 for their 8th straight win

  16-07-2023 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Kyle Bradish took a shutout into the eighth inning and Danny Coulombe retired Luis Arraez on a game-ending lineout with a runner on second as the Baltimore Orioles held off Miami’s late rally in a 5-4 victory over the Marlins on Sunday.
  The Orioles won their eighth straight game, but not before nearly blowing a 5-0 lead in the ninth. Arraez, flirting with .400 for much of the season, lined out to left field to end it. He went 0 for 5, dropping his batting average to
  
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• Cease wins for 1st time in almost 2 months as White Sox cool off Braves 8-1

  16-07-2023 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Dylan Cease won for the first time in nearly two months, Luis Robert Jr. had four hits that included a two-run homer and the Chicago White Sox beat Atlanta 8-1 on Sunday to stop the Braves’ streak of 11 consecutive series wins.
  Cease (4-3) had eight straight no-decisions since beating Cleveland on May 23, the most within a season in White Sox history. He allowed one run and three hits in five innings.
  Matt Olson had a run-scoring single in the third, increasing his NL-
  
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• One dead, another critically injured after gondola crash at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant

  16-07-2023 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONT-TREMBLANT, Que. — Quebec provincial police say one person has died and another critically injured after they were thrown from a sightseeing gondola at the popular Mont-Tremblant resort. 
  Police say the crash occurred shortly before noon after a piece of construction equipment struck the gondola at the mountain resort around 105 kilometres northwest of Montreal. 
  Police said in an email that the other passenger has been transferred to a Montreal-area hospital and their life r
  
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• Manitoba bus crash claims 17th victim as woman dies in hospital

  16-07-2023 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CARBERRY, Man. — RCMP in Manitoba say a 17th victim has died from her injuries a month after a bus crash in Manitoba.
  They say a 79-year-old woman who had been in hospital since the collision died today.Seniors were on a minibus taking a trip to a casino in Carberry in southwestern Manitoba on June 15 when the bus drove into the path of a semi-trailer truck on the Trans-Canada Highway.The 25 people on the bus, including the driver, were from Dauphin and the surrounding area.
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• Dane Christian Lundgaard wins Honda Indy Toronto

  16-07-2023 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Christian Lundgaard has won the Honda Indy Toronto.
  It is Lundgaard’s first victory of the IndyCar season.
  The Dane started the race on the pole but ultimately won because of a failed strategic gamble by Scott McLaughlin and Scott Dixon.
  IndyCar seasons standings leader Alex Palou took second despite starting 15th on the grid and a damaged front wing.
  Colton Herta was third for his first podium of the season.
  Toronto’s Devlin DeFrancesco, the only Canadian driver in I
  
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• Firefighter in Northwest Territories dies battling wildfire near home community

  16-07-2023 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LIARD, N.W.T. — A firefighter has died while battling a wildfire near his home community in the Northwest Territories.
  The territorial government issued a statement saying the firefighter from Fort Liard died from an injury sustained while battling a nearby blaze on Saturday afternoon.
  Wildfire Information Officer Jessica Davey-Quantick says the firefighter was involved in combatting a fire that started July 7 in the Fort Liard District and is currently about 11 kilometres southwest o
  
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• Poilievre’s office, Calgary MP silent over latest photo with controversial message

  16-07-2023 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s office is tight-lipped over a photo of one of his Opposition critics posing with two people wearing slogans against measures addressing sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
  The image, shared to social media, surfaced not long after Poilievre distanced himself from another photo in which he stood next to a man wearing a T-shirt referring to “straight pride.”
  The latest photo shows Calgary MP Jasraj Singh Hallan,
  
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• British Columbia wildfires prompt more than 70 evacuation orders, alerts

  16-07-2023 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Wildfires in British Columbia have prompted more than 70 current evacuation alerts or orders, with many clustered in the province’s central Interior.
  The Cariboo Regional District has issued an order covering 38 parcels of land in a roughly 160-square- kilometre area around Anahim Peak, northeast of Bella Coola.
  That’s on top of an order issued Friday spanning nearly 3,340 square kilometres in the Lhoosk’uz area, west of Quesnel, and several others in the region.
  Meanwhile, Env
  
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• Carlos Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic in five sets to win Wimbledon for his second major trophy

  16-07-2023 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz said he wanted another shot at Novak Djokovic. Said it would make winning a Wimbledon championship more special. Well, Alcaraz got his chance to face Djokovic. And he beat him.
  Alcaraz put aside a poor start and surged down the stretch to end Djokovic’s 34-match winning streak at the All England Club by edging him 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in an engaging, back-and-forth final on Sunday, claiming his first championship at Wimbledon second Gra
  
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• Evan Engram and the Jacksonville Jaguars agree to a 3-year, $41.25M deal, AP source says

  16-07-2023 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Tight end Evan Engram and the Jacksonville Jaguars agreed Sunday to a three-year, $41.25 million contract that includes $24 million guaranteed, according to a person familiar with negotiations.
  The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been signed or made public. His agent, Mike McCartney, announced via Twitter that the deal had been reached. Engram weighed in a few minutes later by posting a picture of himself at
  
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• Ongoing Storm repairs, public safety concerns leave thousands without power in Quebec

  16-07-2023 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Hydro-Québec says fewer than 2,000 clients who lost power Thursday due to a thunderstorm are still without electricity, but other storms have led to further outages.
  Around 5,600 hydro customers across the province were without power as of 1 p.m.
  Hydro-Québec spokesman Francis Labbé says isolated thunderstorms were leading to new outages in several parts of the province. 
  Public safety officials also requested power cuts in Montreal Sunday morning that
  
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• Women urged to explore aviation careers at upcoming Abbotsford ... - Chilliwack Progress

  16-07-2023 19:28
  
  Women urged to explore aviation careers at upcoming Abbotsford ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada sees 100,000 square kilometres burned this record-breaking wildfire season

  16-07-2023 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season has now seen 100,000 square kilometres of land scorched as blazes continue to burn out of control across the entire country.
  The total area burned is roughly the size of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and Lake Michigan combined. 
  Canada surpassed the record set in 1989 for total area burned in one season on June 27 when the figure totalled 76,000 square kilometres, and communities have faced evacuation orders, heat warnings and poor air
  
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• Quinn earns respect as leader on and off the field for Canada and a role model

  16-07-2023 16:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian women’s soccer team is unanimous when it comes to its view of Quinn.
  “We joke that we don’t deserve Quinn,” captain Christine Sinclair said of the veteran midfielder. “They’re that good of a person.”
  Quinn, who goes by one name, has won 89 caps for Canada (including 54 starts) with five goals and four assists. 
  But the 27-year-old from Toronto is much more than a smooth midfielder who brings a sense of calm on the field and can spray th
  
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• N.W.T. researchers studying permafrost, ‘the foundation on which everything is built’

  16-07-2023 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INUVIK, N.W.T. — Off the side of the road not far from the airport in Inuvik, N.W.T., among the shrubs and spruce trees, a series of rusted metal bars are buried deep in the ground.Installed in 2004, they are helping researchers measure how the ground is changing over time.
  Jennifer Humphries, permafrost specialist at the Aurora Research Institute, says it’s the only site in the world south of the treeline looking at the long-term thermal expansion and contraction of the ground conne
  
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• Nearly two dozen new wildfires spotted as BC continues to burn

  16-07-2023 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — New wildfires continue to spark throughout British Columbia amid a persistent drought that’s reached the most severe level in several areas of the province.
  As of Sunday morning, the BC Wildfire Service is reporting 378 active wildfires across the province, including 23 new wildfires discovered Saturday alone.
  The number of highly visible, threatening or potentially damaging “wildfires of note” has ticked up to 20 and mapping from Emergency Management B-C show
  
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• QUIZ: How much do you know about water-related activities? - Chilliwack Progress

  16-07-2023 13:50
  
  QUIZ: How much do you know about water-related activities?  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Catastrophe:’ Strong opposition to Lac-Mégantic rail bypass 10 years after tragedy

  16-07-2023 13:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAC-MÉGANTIC, Que. — Raymond Savoie has lived all his 71 years in a small stone house, surrounded by farmland, that was originally built by his great-grandfather nearly 100 years ago in Lac-Mégantic, Que.
  But last month, he and his partner, Rita Boulanger, learned that their home and part of their land will be expropriated by the federal government on Aug. 1 for a project to divert trains from the community’s downtown, parts of which were destroyed in 2013 when an oil-l
  
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• Foreign interference shows need for Canada to get serious on media literacy: advocate

  16-07-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As federal parties craft the scope of a possible inquiry into foreign interference, Canada’s media-literacy charity argues governments and schools need to do a better job of preventing citizens from being manipulated by hostile states.
  “We are going to need a media-literate populace,” said Matthew Johnson, education director with MediaSmarts, a non-profit aimed at boosting critical thinking among Canadians.
  “Whatever the source of disinformation, but certai
  
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• Gauld shines as Whitecaps roll past Galaxy 4-2

  16-07-2023 06:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ryan Gauld scored a brace and Brian White added a goal as the Vancouver Whitecaps led 3-0 after 23 minutes but still needed a goal from Sergio Cordova in injury time to defeat the L.A. Galaxy 4-2 in a Major League Soccer game Saturday night.
  Gauld scored on a pretty play in the 10th minute and a penalty kick in the 23rd. The Scotsman now has eight goals and five assists in his last nine games across all competitions.
  White opened the scoring in the second minute.
  The Galaxy mad
  
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• Toronto FC burned by Fire’s lone goal in 90th minute

  16-07-2023 05:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Kacper Przybyłko scored in the 90th minute to lift the Chicago Fire to a 1-0 victory over Toronto FC on Saturday night.
  Przybyłko used an assist from Miguel Navarro to score his fourth goal of the Major League Soccer season.
  Chris Brady saved one shot to help the Fire (8-7-8) hold Toronto without a goal in three straight matches for the first time in club history. Chicago has two wins and a tie in the last three meetings after going 0-11-3 in the previous 14.
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• Parades lifts Stampeders to thrilling last-play 33-31 win over Roughriders

  16-07-2023 04:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Calgary Stampeders ended a two-game losing skid with a last-second 33-31 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday.
  Rene Parades kicked his fourth field goal of the game on the final play of regulation time to give the Stampeders their second win of the CFL season.
  The Riders (3-2) almost stole the victory when quarterback Mason Fine connected with receiver Tevin Jones on a 69-yard desperation pass with 48 seconds remaining in the game. Jones managed to grab the pa
  
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• CF Montreal snaps goalscoring drought, beats Charlotte FC 2-0

  16-07-2023 03:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Striker Kwadwo Opoku scored his first goal for his new club and snapped a four-game shutout streak as CF Montreal beat Charlotte FC 2-0 on Saturday night.
  Opoku’s goal in the 27th minute was Montreal’s first in 451 minutes, bringing a relieved Stade Saputo crowd to its feet after having little to cheer for recently amid the Major League Soccer club’s goalscoring woes.
  The 22-year-old from Ghana was making his first start at home since Montreal acquired him in a
  
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• Grant shoots 62 in Dana Open, leads by 6 heading into Sunday

  16-07-2023 03:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — Linn Grant missed a chance to become the second LPGA Tour player to break 60, putting herself in position for a breakthrough victory in the Dana Open was a big consolation on a long, rainy Saturday at Highland Meadows.
  Nine under on her first 13 holes, Grant played the final five in even par for a 9-under 62. Fellow Swede Annika Sorenstam is the lone LPGA Tour player to shoot 59, accomplishing the feat in the 2001 Standard Register Ping at par-72 Moon Valley in Phoeni
  
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• 'You can see the passion and excitement': Premier Eby tours ... - Hope Standard

  16-07-2023 01:29
  
  'You can see the passion and excitement': Premier Eby tours ...  Hope Standard
  
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• 'You can see the passion and excitement': Premier Eby tours ... - Chilliwack Progress

  16-07-2023 01:29
  
  'You can see the passion and excitement': Premier Eby tours ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘You Can See The Passion And Excitement’: Premier Eby Tours ... - Abbotsford News

  16-07-2023 01:29
  
  ‘You Can See The Passion And Excitement’: Premier Eby Tours ...  Abbotsford News
  
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• Redblacks, Crum rally to stun Blue Bombers 31-28 in overtime

  16-07-2023 01:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks pulled off the unthinkable on Saturday as they upset the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 31-28 in overtime thanks to the late heroics of rookie quarterback Dustin Crum.
  Trailing 25-17 late in the fourth quarter, Crum managed to drive the Redblacks down field and ran in a 12-yard touchdown. He then connected on a two-point conversion to tie the game 25-25 in the dying seconds.
  After the Bombers kicked a field goal in overtime, Crum ran in a 29-yard touchdown to complete
  
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• Calgary Stampede says chuckwagon horse euthanized after suffering injury

  16-07-2023 01:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — A horse has been euthanized at the Calgary Stampede after suffering an injury during a chuckwagon race.
  The Calgary Stampede says in an emailed statement that a horse on Kris Molle’s team sustained an injury during the seventh heat of the chuckwagon races on Friday.
  The statement says that medical care was immediately provided and following an assessment, the veterinarian made the humane decision to euthanize the horse.
  Jozef Mihaly, a spectator who was in the grandstand an
  
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• Cody Bellinger’s grand slam lifts Cubs over Red Sox 10-4

  16-07-2023 00:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Cody Bellinger hit his eighth career grand slam in a six-run third inning, a day after homering twice, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Red Sox 10-4 on Saturday.
  Bellinger connected off James Paxton (5-2) for his 12th homer and Patrick Wisdom added his 15th an inning later, a two-run drive off Tayler Scott.
  Marcus Stroman (10-6) allowed one run and three hits in six innings. He had been 0-2 in his previous three starts.
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• Merrifield, Blue Jays top Diamondbacks 5-2 for third consecutive victory

  16-07-2023 00:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — All-Stars Whit Merrifield and Bo Bichette both homered and the Toronto Blue Jays earned a 5-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday.
  Merrifield and George Springer each had two RBIs for Toronto (52-41), which extended its winning streak to three games.
  Jays starter Chris Bassitt (9-5) had five strikeouts while surrendering seven hits and zero walks in six innings of action in front of a sellout crowd of 42,328 at Rogers Centre.
  Nate Pearson, Erik Swanson and Yimi Garc
  
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