Police say a 19-year-old woman shot and killed outside a nightclub in the early hours of New Year’s Eve was an innocent bystander.

Peel police say Raneilia Richards of Toronto was standing on a sidewalk outside the nightclub when she was shot just after 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 31. Investigators say she was not the intended target.

Police haven’t released any information about possible suspects, but say they’re looking to identify a vehicle seen leaving the area

SEATTLE (AP) — Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked northbound traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle for several hours Saturday.

Additional demonstrators on a nearby overpass cheered in support of the blockade, which began around 1:15 p.m., . The state transportation department said on the social media platform X that traffic at one point was backed up more than 6 miles (9.7 kilometers), and the agency asked drivers to use alternate routes.

Demonstrators chanted “

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — It was 2012 and Louisiana was spiraling toward a historic budget crisis, with public colleges bracing for another round of cuts that campus leaders said were chasing away students and shuttering programs.

John Bel Edwards, then-a rural state representative, had had enough. He turned to a fellow lawmaker and said, “I’m running for governor.”

The Democrat went on to shock the country, defying near-universal predictions and in the reliably red state twice

Orthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict.

Traditions vary, but typically the main worship service for Orthodox Christians takes place the night before Christmas, which is Jan. 7.

Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the world’s largest Orthodox denomination, led elaborate and well-attended services at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral. In ornately decorated vestments, dozens of priests and officiants took part, swinging smoking incense censers and chanting the liturgy

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The number of children who died as a result of a fire in their St. Paul home has risen to three, family members said Saturday.

At a news conference, Pa Cheng Vang, the children’s father, said he was grateful for the community’s support since the fire broke out early Wednesday. He was at work at the time.

The children were identified as 5-year-old twin girls Sivntxhi Vang and Ntshiab Si Vang, and a

Quebec provincial police say one person died in a Saturday morning fire in a home in the town of St-Raymond, northwest of Quebec City.

The death is the fifth in two days linked to residential fires in the province, following separate Friday morning incidents in the towns of Rawdon and Boisbriand that each claimed two lives.

Police spokesperson Louis-Philippe Ruel said Saturday morning that firefighters were called to the St-Raymond home at around 6 a.m.

Ruel says firefighters located a body as they worked to extinguish the

A special weather statement is in effect as the first significant snowfall of the season is set to hit Toronto and the GTA.

Environment Canada says the snowfall is expected to continue throughout the night with accumulations of up to 5 cm and possibly more in some areas.

“There is the potential for a band of heavier snow near Lake Ontario,” the national weather service said in an advisory issued Saturday afternoon. “This area of heavier snow is expected to diminish in intensity as the evening progresses, but periods of light snow

A 17-year-old has been charged after the car he was driving crashed into a townhouse complex in North York on Thursday night.

Police say just before midnight the driver and two passengers, a woman and child, were hospitalized with with minor injuries after the blue Tesla they were in left the roadway, crossed a sidewalk and struck the building on Parkway Forest Drive, south of Sheppard Avenue before ending up inside the home.

Three adults in the home were injured. One man suffered serious, but non-