By TAMMY WEBBER and JIM MORRIS (Associated Press) VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Firefighters worked to keep open the only route out of the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as a wildfire moved closer to the city of 20,000 and residents rushed to beat a noon Friday deadline to evacuate. Airtankers flew missions overnight to keep the highway out of […]

Moment ‘idiot’ motorist holds on to an unsecured mattress on his car roof while driving The car and mattress was filmed driving along the Eastern Road in Portsmouth  Police confirmed they are looking into the incident following complaints   A driver was pictured speeding along a road with one hand stuck out of the window so he could hold on to […]

Concern is mounting for a heroic British freedom fighter who has gone missing in Ukraine. Former paratrooper Daniel Burke was last seen on August 11 in the city of Zaporizhzhia, around 15 miles from the frontline. The 36-year-old Mancunian formed a volunteer group last year – the Dark Angels. The veteran led a hair-raising mission to take down a Russian […]

Planet Bluegrass has responded to sexual harassment claims in a lawsuit filed by a former female employee against owner Craig Ferguson. Ferguson is being sued by a former employee alleging persistent sexual harassment, unwanted touching, and wrongful termination, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Boulder County District Court. “We received a complaint that is not characteristic of who we […]

Chef Thach Tran has shifted to the healthier side of cooking. After six years working for the Secret Sauce restaurant group in Denver, Tran has left his job as executive chef of Ace Eat Serve to fully take over his own spot, the Energy Bar Cafe in the Colorado Athletic Club-Tabor Center downtown. “The cafe fell into our laps,” said […]

Private jet flying from luxury holiday island crashes and explodes on Malaysian road killing at least nine The plane nosedived onto the tarmac in the town of Elmina in Shah Alam All eight passengers and crew members died amid the devastating impact  A small aircraft crashed in Malaysia’s Selangor state with eight people on board on Thursday, killing at least […]

A WOMAN has admitted she stabbed her pal to death after a boozy day out but told her murder trial: "I literally can't remember it". Learose Cheng, 27, is accused of knifing Dylan Bacon, 39, eight times after an afternoon in the pub. When police arrived, they followed a "trail of blood" to Cheng's home in Liverpool where a stand-off ensued. Cheng […]

An arrogant drug dealing dad who claimed he was going to make “easy money” through “proper organised crime bro” has been jailed for more than nine years. Cocky Kurt Jervis was working as a courier for a “top of the tree” drugs lord based in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The 37-year-old has pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply a Class A […]

Moment teenage attacker who stabbed a 14-year-old schoolboy to death is caught holding the blade on CCTV – before being jailed for 16 years  Daniel Haig, 18 murdered Justin McLaughlin, 14 at a Glasgow train station   Haig denied charges of murder, saying he carried a knife for protection A teenager who stabbed a 14-year-old schoolboy through the heart and left […]