Fierce winds whipping through southern Manitoba Wednesday night reached speeds as high as 133 km/h, leaving a trail of downed trees and knocking out power for thousands.

The book published in 1858 was returned to the library in the seaside town of Kiama last week by a man who had found it during recent home renovations inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace.

The Justice Department used the Secret Service and FBI to go to extraordinary lengths to bolster its contentious case against former FBI director James Comey, his lawyers claim, including allegedly interviewing Sammy (The Bull) Gravano, the Mafia underboss who in the past admitted to participating in 19 killings.