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• Man City routs Schalke 7-0, into Champions League quarters

  12-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  MANCHESTER, England — A record-tying victory in the last 16 and a quarterfinal lineup lacking at least three of Europe's top teams suggests this just might be Manchester City's year in the Champions League.
  
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• Vast majority of January's 911 calls non-urgent

  12-03-2019 22:11 via nugget.ca
  The North Bay Police received hundreds of 911 calls in January, but dispatched resources to only 43 emergency situations.“We did not dispatch resources to 278 calls. The 278 calls were determined to not be an emergency or urgent situation that required resources to immediately attend,” said Deputy Chief Scott Tod, noting 911 operators logged a total of 321 calls in January. “Many of these calls are classified as 911 hang ups – no one at the other end of the phone, inadver
  
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• Vancouver businessman David Sidoo charged in U.S. college bribery scandal

  12-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A prominent Vancouver businessman and philanthropist is among 50 people charged in what United States authorities are alleging is the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted.
  
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• Liberals must let Wilson-Raybould come back to committee, opposition says

  12-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Opposition MPs plan to demand Wednesday that former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould be allowed to return to the justice committee with no limitations on what she can say about the SNC-Lavalin affair.
  
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• TV celebrities and coaches charged in college bribery scheme

  12-03-2019 21:06 via baytoday.ca
  BOSTON — Fifty people, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were charged Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and other insiders to get their children into some of the nation's most se
  
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• Parents charged in admissions scheme roll through US courts

  12-03-2019 21:06 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Colleges and companies moved swiftly to distance themselves from employees swept up in a nationwide college admissions scheme, many of them coaches accused of taking bribes and others prominent parents accused of angling to get their ch
  
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• Feds charge dozens in widespread US college admissions scam

  12-03-2019 21:06 via baytoday.ca
  BOSTON — A fast-moving college admissions scandal moved from bombshell indictments to guilty pleas in a matter of hours, yet the full fallout from the federal case against the rich and famous could take months or more to unfold.
  
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• Coaches and parents in college scheme find jobs in danger

  12-03-2019 21:06 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Colleges and companies moved swiftly to distance themselves from employees swept up in a nationwide college admissions scheme, many of them coaches accused of taking bribes and others prominent parents accused of angling to get their ch
  
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• Actress Loughlin surrenders as admissions fallout spreads

  12-03-2019 21:06 via baytoday.ca
  BOSTON — Fallout from a sweeping college admissions scandal swiftly spread Wednesday, with actress Lori Loughlin surrendering ahead of a Los Angeles court hearing and a Silicon Valley hedge fund replacing its leader.
  
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• Canadians Andreescu, Shapovalov notch upsets at Indian Wells

  12-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Canada's contingent of tennis teenagers is continuing to make waves in the California desert. Wild card Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont.
  
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• Patrick Brown's publisher insists book is true - The North Bay Nugget

  12-03-2019 20:15
  Patrick Brown's publisher insists book is true  The North Bay NuggetStatement of defence filed in Vic Fedeli's defamation suit.
  
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• Patrick Brown's publisher insists book is true

  12-03-2019 20:06 via nugget.ca
  TORONTO — Patrick Brown’s publisher says the former Progressive Conservative leader’s tell-all book is not defamatory because the facts laid out in it are true.
  Optimum Publishing International also says any opinions expressed in Takedown: The Attempted Political Assassination of Patrick Brown are fair comment made without malice on matters of public interest.
  Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli has filed a defamation lawsuit against Brown and Optimum over a
  
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• Statistics show illegal US-Canada border crossings climbing

  12-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTPELIER, Vt. — New statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show the number of people apprehended along the U.S. border with Canada is continuing to climb.
  
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• Canadian international midfielder Sophie Schmidt joins NWSL's Houston Dash

  12-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  HOUSTON — Canadian international Sophie Schmidt has signed with the Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League. The 30-year-old from Abbotsford, B.C.
  
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• MNRF and Nipissing First Nation extend walleye agreement

  12-03-2019 19:40 via nugget.ca
  The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and Nipissing First Nation have signed a three year agreement to continue to support walleye recovery population in Lake Nipissing.
  The new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) came into effect Monday and ends March 10, 2022.
  The MNR stated the MOU will support the recovery of the walleye population and build on successes achieved, including establishing strong relationships between Ontario and the Nipissing First Nation that respect the First Nation&r
  
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• MNRF and Nipissing First Nation extend fisheries agreement

  12-03-2019 19:40 via nugget.ca
  The walleye fishery in Lake Nipissing is showing improvement, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.
  MNRF Spokeswoman Jolanta Kowalski said fishery surveys indicate that the regulation changes are protecting a significant number of juvenile walleye from being harvested.
  The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and Nipissing First Nation have signed a three year agreement to continue to support walleye recovery population in Lake Nipissing.
  The new Memorandum of Unders
  
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• Electrical device likely culprit in garage fire - My North Bay Now

  12-03-2019 19:36
  Electrical device likely culprit in garage fire  My North Bay NowFire crews responded to a fire in a residential garage at 184 Third Avenue West just before 7:00pm last night. Fire Chief Jason Whiteley says crews were on the ...
  
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• Ontario signs three year agreement with Nipissing First Nation to support recovery of walleye

  12-03-2019 19:35 via baytoday.ca
  'We signed a new three-year agreement that will support the commercial fishing of Nipissing First Nation and help promote economic growth and sustainable management of resources'
  
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• Highway 400 widening could eventually eliminate Barrie bottleneck

  12-03-2019 19:34 via baytoday.ca
  In the meantime, bridges and interchanges are being designed and built with widening in mind
  
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• WH official: US, China in 'final weeks' of trade talks

  12-03-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The top U.S. trade negotiator suggests that the U.S. and China are nearing an agreement that would end their trade conflict, but wouldn't commit to a specific time frame.
  
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• NHL says Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly didn't utter homophobic slur

  12-03-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The NHL, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Morgan Rielly are adamant the star defenceman didn't utter a homophobic slur on the ice.
  
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• Individual compensation announced for Indian Day Schools survivors

  12-03-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The government has reached a proposed settlement with former Indian Day Schools students that would compensate each survivor $10,000, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett announced Tuesday.
  
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• Conductor Muti joins striking Chicago Symphony musicians

  12-03-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — Renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti (MOO-tee) has joined striking members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, saying: "I am here with my musicians." Muti is the symphony's music director.
  
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• Local police inundated with non urgent 9-1-1 calls

  12-03-2019 18:54 via baytoday.ca
  'To make a 9-1-1 call it has be a situation where someone’s life or someone’s safety is at risk'
  
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• North Bay's Rob Shaw featured in documentary

  12-03-2019 17:13 via nugget.ca
  North Bay’s Rob Shaw, who is ranked Top 10 in the world in quad wheelchair tennis, will be featured this spring in a documentary series titled Level Playing Field, Accessible Media Inc. (AMI-tv) has announced.
  This AMI original documentary series, hosted by Greg Westlake, “celebrates the power of sport by introducing audiences to the athletes, community groups, health care professionals and grassroots innovators who demonstrate a desire to help drive positive social change throu
  
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• Sunwing temporarily grounds Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft for 'commercial reasons'

  12-03-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Sunwing Airlines is temporarily grounding its four Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the wake of the Ethiopian plane crash that killed all 157 people on board.
  
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• Garneau meeting with expert aviation panel, has no plans to ground Boeing 737

  12-03-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Transport Minister Marc Garneau has cleared his schedule for the day in order to meet with his civil aviation expert panel on how to deal with the issue of Boeing's 737 Max 8 aircraft, which is being grounded or banned from a growing numbe
  
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• Boeing 737s continue to fly Canadian skies despite being grounded abroad

  12-03-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Transport Minister Marc Garneau faced an escalating dilemma Tuesday over Boeing's 737 Max 8 aircraft, which a growing number of countries have grounded or banned in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people Sunday.
  
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• Too many 9-1-1 calls to North Bay Police - CTV News

  12-03-2019 17:00
  Too many 9-1-1 calls to North Bay Police  CTV NewsNorth Bay Police are concerned with the number of non-emergency 9-1-1 calls that are being made by residents. At this morning's (March 12/19) police board ...
  
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• Timmins native identified as victim in Ethiopian Airlines crash - The North Bay Nugget

  12-03-2019 16:59
  Timmins native identified as victim in Ethiopian Airlines crash  The North Bay NuggetStéphanie Lacroix was a project officer with the Canada *Service* Corps at the United Nations Association in Canada.
  
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• TV stars and coaches charged in college bribery scheme

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  BOSTON — Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged along with nearly 50 other people Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents bribed college coaches and other insiders to get their children into some of the most elite school
  
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• Smollett team: Court cameras would show state's flimsy case

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — A lawyer for Jussie Smollett said Tuesday that she would welcome cameras in the courtroom during the "Empire" actor's trial on charges accusing him of lying to police, saying there has been a lot of leaked misinformation and cameras would a
  
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• Smollett expected at hearing to discuss cameras in courtroom

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett is expected at a Chicago hearing to discuss whether cameras will be allowed in the courtroom during his disorderly conduct case.
  
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• NY, feds get 100K rape kits tested around US - and 1K arrest

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three year
  
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• New York, feds join to get 100K rape kits tested around US

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three year
  
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• 'Mockingbird' author compared hometown to Elvis' Graceland

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee railed against her Alabama hometown for trying to exploit her success in a letter that helps explain later legal battles involving commercialization of her novel.
  
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• Kellogg Foundation grant to boost Motown Museum programs

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  DETROIT — The Motown Museum is using a $1.5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to boost community programming in concert with its planned expansion.
  
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• College coaches, others indicted in admissions bribery case

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  BOSTON — Federal authorities have charged college coaches and others in a sweeping admissions bribery case in federal court.
  
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• Cash from NY, feds tests 100K rape kits, leads to 1K arrests

  12-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three year
  
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• Woman picks matching numbers 30 times to win lottery game

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia woman parlayed a feeling to purchase 30 lottery tickets with the same numbers to win $150,000.
  
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• With New York cash, feds test 100K rape kits and arrest 1K

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three year
  
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• The Latest: Trump bemoans 'danger' in complexity of aircraft

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  HEJERE, Ethiopia — The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 5:35 p.m. President Donald Trump is bemoaning the complexity of modern airplanes in the wake of two deadly crashes in the past five months.
  
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• The Latest: Travel hub UAE suspends Boeing 737 Max 8, 9 jets

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  HEJERE, Ethiopia — The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 4:40 a.m.
  
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• The Latest: Italy also closing airspace to Boeing 737 Max 8

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  HEJERE, Ethiopia — The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 9 p.m. Italy is joining other European countries in closing its airspace to Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.
  
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• The Latest: Air Canada lets attendants avoid 737 Max flights

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  HEJERE, Ethiopia — The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local): 2:10 a.m.
  
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• Clearwater Seafoods and 14 First Nations reach 50-year Arctic surf clam deal

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Clearwater Seafoods and 14 First Nations in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador have forged a 50-year partnership on the Arctic surf clam fishery.
  
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• Canadian women's baseball team stars Kate Psota, Ashley Stephenson retire

  12-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Longtime Canadian national women's baseball team members Kate Psota and Ashley Stephenson are retiring as players. The 32-year-old Psota, of Burlington, Ont., and 36-year-old Stephenson, of Mississauga, Ont.
  
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• Long-time gardener celebrates 99th birthday

  12-03-2019 15:51 via nugget.ca
  Ella Fudge celebrated her 99th birthday with family and friends Sunday at Eastholme Home for the Aged in Powassan. Fudge has been active with the IODE, North Bay Horticultural Society and associate member of Laurentian Ski Club.
   
  
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• Ontario classrooms to ban cellphones

  12-03-2019 15:36 via nugget.ca
  Ontario elementary and secondary school students won’t be allowed to bring their cellphones into classrooms, Education Minister Lisa Thompson has announced.
  The ban will not apply to cellphone use for educational, health and medical purposes or as support for those students with special needs.
  “Ontario’s students need to be able to focus on their learning – not their cellphones,” Thompson said in a statement Tuesday. “Last fall, we launched the largest-ever co
  
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• Province to announce classroom cellphone ban: Canadian Press

  12-03-2019 15:30 via baytoday.ca
  PCs proposed the ban during last year's election campaign
  
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