EDMONTON — A man facing six weapons charges after a gun was fired and a Molotov cocktail was ignited in Edmonton city hall is to have a bail hearing next week.

Bezhani Sarvar, 28, made his first court appearance Thursday by video from the Edmonton Remand Centre’s maximum security unit.

Police have said a heavily armed man entered city hall Tuesday through an underground parkade, fired a gun and lit several small incendiary devices, which caused a small fire outside an elevator.

Although the bullets shattered glass and punctured ceilings

There are fresh warnings about what the federal government’s cap on international student visas could do to Ontario colleges and universities.

Colleges Ontario is calling on the federal government to rethink its approach, calling it “rushed” and contributing to an “unnecessary upheaval for students, employers and communities.”

“We believe this blunt approach does not adequately consider the talent needs of the province of Ontario – and does not consider the many thousands of students who will now be left in limbo with their hopes on hold,” read

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. has a new slogan for how he wants to run Pennsylvania — and it’s not fit for kids’ ears.

“We’ve got a GSD attitude in the Shapiro administration that means we focus on getting, you know, stuff done,” he told a news conference Monday with local officials at the Johnstown YMCA. “There’s children here, so we’ll just say ‘stuff.’”

That was the G-rated version of the

Israel faces a growing risk of damaging its peace with neighboring Egypt as its military pushes the offensive against Hamas further south in the Gaza Strip. Already, the two sides are in a dispute over a narrow strip of land between Egypt and Gaza.

Israeli leaders say that to complete their destruction of Hamas, they must eventually widen their offensive to Gaza’s southernmost town, Rafah, and take control of the Philadelphi Corridor, a tiny buffer zone on the border with Egypt that is demilitarized under the two countries’ 19

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit on April 10, with the goal of strengthening a critical alliance as the United States has sought to counter China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

John Kirby, the White House national security spokesman, told reporters aboard Air Force One that the visit will include a formal state dinner.

As president, Biden has visited Japan twice, most recently going to the city of Hiroshima last May for the

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The family of a Florida woman killed by an alligator last year as she walked her dog in her backyard is suing the housing complex’s owner, alleging its employees fed the gator and didn’t have it removed from the neighborhood retention pond.

The family of Gloria Serge filed suit Thursday against the Wynne Building Corp., which owns the Spanish Lakes senior housing complex in Fort Pierce where she had lived for almost 30 years. Serge, an 85-

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Dawn Ericksen was struggling with an opioid addiction a dozen years ago when she got pregnant and realized she couldn’t keep herself safe, much less a baby. Working part-time, she couldn’t afford the hundreds of dollars she would need for an abortion and had to turn to a trusted friend to help cover the costs.

Ericksen, a 43-year-old attorney from southern New Jersey who has been sober for 10 years, is now

Nicole Kidman captivated TV viewers in 2020 in as a woman whose husband was accused of murder. In she was a woman in an abusive marriage. And let’s not forget for playing 20th century writer Virginia Woolf, who battled mental illness, in the 2002 movie “The Hours.”

In her premiering Friday on Amazon Prime Video, Kidman once again emotionally jumps off a cliff. At the center of “Expats” are three women, played by Kidman, ‎Ji-

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 25-year-old professional dancer from England who moved to New York City to pursue her career has died after eating a mislabeled cookie containing peanuts, part of a batch that has since been recalled.

The grocery retailer Stew Leonard’s announced Tuesday that Vanilla Florentine Cookies sold in its stores in Danbury and Newington in Connecticut from Nov. 6 to Dec. 31 were being recalled in partnership with the Food and Drug Administration. The company said about 500