Jennifer Stahn

TORONTO – As Derik Hodgson puts it, Badger the Lab-Rottweiler mix "was one rowdy puppy."

WASHINGTON – Canada and the United States have announced a decade-long plan to phase out trains like the one involved in the deadly 2013 derailment and explosion in Lac-Megantic, Que.

MONTREAL – For a 91-year-old Quebec woman, happiness is not having to pay a fine after a neighbour complained about a noisy chair in her apartment.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Ben E. King, the unforgettable lead singer for the Drifters and solo star whose plaintive baritone graced such pop and rhythm 'n blues classics as "Stand by Me," ''There Goes My Baby" and "Spanish Harlem," has died. He was 76.

VANCOUVER – A second Mountie has been acquitted of perjury stemming from a public inquiry into Robert Dziekanski's death at Vancouver's airport.

KATHMANDU, Nepal – A long-absent noise — cheers — rang out in Nepal's capital Thursday as rescuers pulled a teenager alive from the earthquake rubble he had been trapped in for five days. The joy interrupted a dreary and still fearful day in which thousands worried about aftershocks lined up to board free buses to their rural hometowns.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Bud Light should have kept the word "No" handy in this case.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Three men have been accused of stabbing a young moose to death at a popular park in Alaska's largest city, and police said witnesses reported seeing the men jumping on the animal, kicking it and attacking it with a large knife.

GUMDA, Nepal – Hands pressed together in supplication, the Nepalese women pleaded for food, shelter and anything else the helicopter might have brought on an in-and-out run Wednesday to this smashed mountain village near the epicenter of last weekend's mammoth earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people.

VANCOUVER – Vancouver city council has decided to hold a public hearing on its proposal to regulate marijuana shops as the federal government made new demands Tuesday for the controversial plan to be dropped.

BALTIMORE – National Guardsmen took up positions across the city and hundreds of volunteers swept broken glass and other debris from the streets Tuesday, the morning after riots erupted following the funeral of a black man who died in police custody.

KENTVILLE, N.S. – It is difficult to fathom the "animalistic" actions of two men who targeted one of society's most vulnerable when they burned a homeless man alive, a Nova Scotia judge said Tuesday as he sentenced them to life in prison for murder.