LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for increased investments in education through initiatives such as for all high school graduates and free preschool for 4-year-olds in a State of the State speech Wednesday night focused on cutting costs for residents.

The second-term Democratic governor’s speech preceded a legislative session that may require lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to work together for the first time since Democrats took of the state government last January. The state House will be tied 5

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Relatives of some of the 202 people killed in testified Wednesday of in the attacks , speaking at a U.S. sentencing hearing at Guantanamo Bay for two Malaysian men in the case.

For the American commission on the U.S. military base in Cuba, the winding down of this case is comparatively rare in the prolonged prosecutions of deadly attacks by extremist groups in the opening years of this century. Prosecutors are still pursuing plea agreements with defendants in the Sept

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana felon previously to sell their parts on the black market was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Wednesday for related gun violations.

U.S. District Judge Susan Watters in Billings sentenced Harvey Hugs, 60, after he pleaded guilty in September to being a felon in possession of firearms. Prosecutors said the Hardin, Montana, man used the guns to shoot federally protected eagles over more than a year and then sold the birds’ parts to an informant for profit

VANCOUVER — The father of a murdered 13-year-old girl has been under police investigation for allegedly bringing a gun into a Vancouver courtroom on the day that Ibrahim Ali was convicted of the killing, the man’s lawyer has told a hearing.

Lawyers for Ali are refusing to show up to court for post-trial proceedings citing safety concerns about the man, who can’t be named because of a publication ban on the identity of the murdered girl.

One of the lawyers, Kevin McCullough, said

Over the next 30 years, the number of people living with dementia in Canada is expected to triple according to a 2020 study by the Alzheimer’s Society.

Now, new data released by the organization takes a closer look at specific groups and shows that one out of every four people who develop dementia in Canada by 2050 will be of Asian origin.

Dr. Joshua Armstrong, the lead author of the study titled “The many faces of dementia in Canada,” says the numbers

Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear.

A small study documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. On Tuesday, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced similar improvements in an 11-year-old boy treated there. And earlier this month, Chinese researchers a study showing much the same in two other children.

So far, the experimental therapies target only one rare condition. But scientists say similar treatments could someday help many more kids with other types of deafness

A man was arrested and charged in an alleged assault during which he bound a woman’s hands before robbing her at her Scarborough residence, Toronto police said.

Officers were called to the Kennedy Road and Sheppard Avenue East area just after midnight on Jan. 21 for reports of a sexual assault that occurred in December.

It’s alleged that on Dec. 3, the victim met a man on a social media platform and he attended her residence. The man then produced a weapon and bound the victim’s

Netflix is putting the final stake in its cheapest, ad-free “basic” plan in Canada.

After announcing last year that it would no longer offer the $9.99 plan to new or returning subscribers, the streaming giant is phasing out the price level entirely for users who were grandfathered into the plan.

“Basic” subscribers will now need to choose whether to downgrade to a $5.99 plan that includes commercial interruptions — and most of the Netflix catalogue — or pay more for the no