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EDMONTON, Alberta — The Tampa Bay Lightning are the champions of bubble hockey.Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 on Monday night to win the Stanley Cup and finish off the most unusual NHL postseason in history, staged nearly entirely in quarantine because of the pandemic. The clock hitting zeros in an empty arena nonetheless set off a joyful celebration for a team that endured years of playoff heartbreak and two ..read more

BUFFALO — A woman charged with making threats against President Donald Trump by mailing a package containing ricin to the White House was ordered held without bail Monday by a judge in Buffalo who cited "a very strong case" against her based on an indictment in Washington, D.C.Pascale Ferrier, 53, of a Montreal suburb, was arrested a week ago as she tried to enter the U.S. through a border crossing between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo. Her lawyer entered a not-guilty plea ..read more

The death of a 19-year-old Canastota woman who was reported missing since this past Wednesday has been ruled a homicide, authorities announced Monday afternoon.Madison County Sheriff Todd Hood said at a livestreamed news conference the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed 19-year-old Elizabeth Garrow-McDonald died from multiple blunt force trauma injuries and stab wounds.Hood also confirmed Garrow’s husband George McDonald Jr. was a person of ..read more

ILION – The sale of the assets of the Remington Outdoor Company to seven different bidders could be finalized at Tuesday’s bankruptcy sale hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.As the process continues, the union representing Remington Arms workers is hopeful the Ilion plant will remain open."Publicly available documents filed over the weekend with the Bankruptcy Court indicate that there could be a successful bidder for certain assets of Remington that would ..read more

UTICA — While Francesca Orsomarso always wanted to be a singer-songwriter, something always led her back to marketing.Orsomarso was ready to transfer from Mohawk Valley Community College to Middle Tennessee State University to study commercial songwriting. The transfer ultimately didn’t work out, however, and Orsomarso found herself studying management with a marketing management specialization at Utica College."It was like all roads that I tried to follow ..read more

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PARIS — Hospitals in the Paris and Marseille regions are delaying some scheduled operations to free up space for COVID-19 patients as the French government tries to stem a rising tide of coronavirus infections, the health minister said Sunday.As restaurants and bars in Marseille prepared to shut down Sunday night for a week as part of scattered new French virus restrictions, Health Minister Olivier Veran insisted that the country plans no new lockdowns.Two Nobel ..read more

KENOSHA, Wis. — The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last month told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children and that he opened fire because Blake started turning toward the officer while holding a knife, the officer's lawyer contends.Brendan Matthews, the attorney for Officer Rusten Sheskey and the Kenosha police union, told CNN that when Sheskey arrived at the scene on Aug. 23 in response to a call from ..read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for TikTok pleaded with a U.S. federal judge on Sunday to delay the Trump Administration's ban of the popular video sharing program from app stores set to take effect at the end of the day, arguing the move would infringe on First Amendment rights and do irreparable harm to the business.The 90-minute hearing came after President Donald Trump declared this summer that TikTok was a threat to national security and that it either sold its U.S. operations to U ..read more