Local News from North America

Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has lined up a new job for when he leaves the Legislature in November.

A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.

The largest school board in Newfoundland and Labrador breached privacy legislation, according to a ruling made in the wake of recent computer thefts.

For the second time in the same month, a central Newfoundland community has been rocked by a major house fire.

With the high price of diesel fuel, budgets are running low at many P.E.I. volunteer fire departments, prompting some volunteers to buy diesel out of their own pockets.

A troupe of male dancers from Las Vegas recently took their clothes off at the Legion in Summerside, P.E.I., and that has one member asking for an apology to the local veterans.

At least 15 judges and lawyers have applied to replace two of the most conservative members of the Florida Supreme Court.

CSX is resuming its annual meeting in Jacksonville, but it is uncertain what will be on the agenda.

A C-average in high school may not open the same doors from sea to sea.

Office clerks and salespeople took over the graveyard shift at several cemeteries across the region yesterday to make sure no caskets were left unburied when gravediggers hit the picket lines.

Officials say the groundbreaking ceremony for the TTC's $2 billion Spadina subway extension is expected as early as September – more than two years after the plan was unveiled.

The updates come early this month:

While Igor Kenk, accused in a massive series of bike thefts, appears at a bail hearing today along with his respected concert-pianist wife and a second accused man, bike-theft victims can go claim their stolen wheels.

An ex-school bus driver arrested for failure to give adequate breathalyzer samples was unsteady on his feet, slurred his words, and had a fixed stare during investigation, a police officer testified yesterday.

Fan Yang of Mississauga, the Bubble King of the world, is on a slippery slope.

Shell casings and shards of glass were discovered on a highway overpass yesterday about two kilometres east of where an SUV driver told detectives he and three friends were attacked.

Improvements worth $9.3 billion over the next six years are coming for Ontario highways, public transit systems, rural Internet access and other infrastructure under a new federal-provincial deal.

Nine billion dollars is a lot of money, but not compared with $100 billion.

The board takes a major step toward a series of projects over the next three decades, including the long-awaited subway to the sea. The state Legislature must approve the ballot measure first, though. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to seek a half-cent-on-t...