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The bodies of two contract workers were recovered Friday after they died following an explosion in an Oklahoma dam that was undergoing maintenance, officials said. Three workers were doing maintenance work Thursday at the Robert S. Kerr Dam near Tulsa when the blast happened at about 6:00 p.m. in an 80-foot deep interior inspection shaft,

Nine people in Rhode Island’s capital were injured in a shooting Thursday, Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements said during a news conference. Three victims are “very seriously injured, maybe critically,” Clements said. Only one patient was taken to the Rhode Island Hospital by ambulance while the rest arrived in private vehicles, according to Clements. Police

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Last week’s ransomware attack on the U.S. Colonial Pipeline has drawn attention to the importance of good cybersecurity, prompting cybersecurity experts to encourage Canadian individuals and businesses to brush up on their cyber hygiene. Last Friday hackers used ransomware to get into the

Click here for updates on this story     Ottawa, Ontario (CTV Network) — The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has issued preliminary guidelines detailing what Canadians can expect to do this summer and fall with fewer pandemic restrictions, all dependent on whether the country can meet its vaccine targets. If 75 per cent of Canadians

Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A Calgary researcher says doctors need to be keenly aware of the risks of the rare side effects linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, which can happen to anyone regardless of age or sex, after a case of a 63-year-old man who was admitted

It was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North Carolina, had just hit a double. Her hair, braided with beads and tied in a bun at the bottom of her neck, was the last thing on her mind. It quickly, however, became

Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit can race in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes after the final two rounds of blood samples from the horse were deemed clear, officials said Friday. All three of trainer Bob Baffert’s horses scheduled to run at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, passed their drug tests. Medina Spirit and Concert Tour

At least 10 Palestinians were killed Friday by Israeli forces during violent clashes in towns and cities across the West Bank, the Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement, as sirens continued to blare all day across southern Israel, indicating another day of ceaseless rocket fire from Gaza. The violence in the occupied West

One of the most vaccinated countries in the world is experiencing a Covid-19 outbreak. While other nations struggle to secure enough vaccines, the Seychelles is in the enviable position of having already fully immunized more than 61.4% of the population. But that hasn’t been enough to stop the spread of Covid. Over the past month,