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Blue Jays’ Jose Berrios to undergo elbow surgery

DETROIT – José Berríos will be sidelined for at least a couple of months and potentially for more than a year after making the decision to undergo elbow surgery. Not only does Berríos have a stress fracture in his elbow, he has...

May 17, 2026 | Local

Blue Jays’ Guerrero Jr. on struggles: ‘I’m not feeling right and you guys can tell’

Nothing is going right for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. right now. The Toronto Blue Jays superstar is enduring one of the worst slumps of his MLB career at the plate. Guerrero Jr. is 1-for-22 in his last six games following Saturday’s 0-for-4 performance in Toronto’s...

May 17, 2026 | Local

France says cruise ship Andes virus matches known South American viruses

PARIS (AP) — France’s Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes virus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found that it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so...

May 17, 2026 | Local

Drake breaks three daily Spotify records for 2026 with new albums

Drake fans who might have felt left out in the cold waiting for new music after the rapper’s last solo album in 2023 seem to have warmly embraced his latest drop. With the release of three albums Friday, the Toronto-born...

May 17, 2026 | Local

Driver plows into pedestrians in Modena, 8 injured as driver detained after attempted escape

ROME (AP) — A driver plowed into pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena on Saturday, injuring eight people, four of them critically, before trying to flee and being detained by police, local authorities said. They said the man...

May 17, 2026 | Local

A French judge will look into complaints against Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi’s killing

PARIS (AP) — A French investigating judge will examine a complaint by two rights groups accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office said Saturday. The...

May 17, 2026 | Local

Canadian isolating in B.C. tests “presumptive positive” for hantavirus

British Columbia’s provincial health officer says one of the four Canadians isolating in the province who had been on a cruise ship where there was a hantavirus outbreak has received a “presumptive positive” test. Dr. Bonnie Henry told a news...

May 17, 2026 | Local

Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga dies in custody in The Hague at age 91

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A Rwandan suspect charged in connection with the 1994 genocide died in a hospital while in custody in The Hague, Netherlands, a U.N. court said Saturday, three years after the court declared him unfit to continue...

May 17, 2026 | Local

Another man has died while waiting for care at hospital: Alberta Medical Association

EDMONTON — The Alberta Medical Association says another patient has died while waiting for care at a hospital, as the province’s health agency investigates the case. AMA President Dr. Brian Wirzba says the man arrived at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital...

May 17, 2026 | Local

Driver, 23, arrested after fleeing from police and crashing into cruiser: TPS

Toronto police arrested a 23-year-old driver who attempted to flee a traffic stop and ended up crashing into another police cruiser late Friday evening. Officers say they attempted to stop the vehicle at approximately 11:10 p.m. for speeding in around...

May 17, 2026 | Local