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A 56-year-old man from Quebec has been charged with fraud in connection with a grandparent scam in Thunder Bay, Ont. The Thunder Bay Police Service says it began investigating after receiving several reports of phone calls from alleged scammers.

President Donald Trump speaks about the proposed Alaska LNG project at a campaign rally at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Wasilla, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) President Donald Trump said on social media last week that the Alaska LNG megaproject is now “a U. S. Federal Government Project.” Exactly what that means — and how it may or may not affect the project — is to be determined. Capital funding for the project, if it actually materializes, would be part of the U. S. Investment Accelerator program created last year by Trump to deliver investments to large projects, according to a nonbinding agreement between South Korea and the U. S. Under the program, some of the funding for Alaska LNG could come from foreign entities, but it’s also possible that the federal government could take an ownership stake in the project, people familiar with the effort say. They say the state’s Alaska Gasline Development Corp. will retain its 25% stake in the project. But it’s possible that the current majority ownership, held by private entity Glenfarne at 75%, could be reduced or eliminated entirely, though the company would remain as developer.

EDMONTON — Almost all polling stations are closed in Alberta's separation referendum, but the voting continues. Elections Alberta says more than 100 locations are staying open past the scheduled 8 p.m. closing time.

TORONTO – Gavin McKenna scored the winner on a third-period power play as the Toronto Maple Leafs snapped a three-game slide Monday with a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks. Auston Matthews added a goal and two assists for Toronto (4-4-2). Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves to pick up his first home win for the Maple Leafs. Nick Paul added an empty-net goal late in regulation. Mason Marchment replied for San Jose (4-4-1), which got 28 stops from Yaroslav Askarov. McKenna fished the puck out of a crowd and fired past Askarov at 4:56 of the final period before dropping to one knee in celebration to snap a 1-1 tie. Story continues below advertisement

By Alejandra MolinaThe LA Local  Oct. 19, 2026 7:23 PM PT Boyle Heights and Arts District residents are joining forces to push for enforcement of an anti-camping zone at the park beneath the 6th Street Bridge, which is expected to open next year. Members of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council recently voted 13 to 1 to sign on as supporters after Arts District residents spearheaded a petition calling for the city to implement such a zone for the sidewalks and perimeter around the future park. With this vote, the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council is joining the Arts District Little Tokyo Neighborhood Council and the downtown Los Angeles Residents Assn. in urging Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, Mayor Karen Bass and city staff to move forward with the designation and to coordinate a security plan for the park. The move comes after residents on both sides of the Los Angeles River have raised concerns for months about the possibility of homeless encampments forming at the park. Anti-camping zones — established through Los Angeles Municipal Code 41.18 — bar people from sitting, lying or sleeping in certain public spaces.

by Winston RogersMon, October 19, 2026 at 10:07 PMUpdated Mon, October 19, 2026 at 10:11 PMMaryland Congressman Steny Hoyer announces retirement on Jan. 8, 2026. (7News)GREENBELT, Md. (7News) — Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer said his office was among the latest to receive a "potentially hazardous letter," sent to his office in Greenbelt, Maryland, according to a statement. The letter was similar to those sent to other public officials, including fellow Democrat Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, according to the office of the Maryland 5th Congressional District representative. The office, located on Cherrywood Lane, was evacuated and his staff was safe, his office said. ALSO READ | Suspicious envelope triggers evacuation at Rep. Subramanyam’s Leesburg office"My district office staff work hard every day to deliver critical services to Marylanders across the Fifth Congressional District. It is unacceptable that their lives were put in danger," a portion of his statement read. "Intimidation efforts such as these are un-American and pose an existential threat to our democracy. We must not - and will not - allow them to prevent us from fulfilling our commitment to serving our communities.

Local and state officials and community members gathered Monday afternoon for a roundtable discussion at the Ohio County Community Center in Hartford featuring U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Kentucky Sen.

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Vice President JD Vance declined Monday to endorse Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection a day after President Donald Trump endorsed the embattled Israeli leader. “The president has the most influential endorsement in American or international political history,” Vance said during an interview with journalist Mark Halperin.

DULUTH, Minn. (KQDS-TV) -- The Minnesota State Patrol is reminding drivers to be on alert for school buses and the safety laws that come with them. Flashing yellow lights tell drivers to prepare to stop. Red flashing lights mean students are entering or exiting the bus. Those red lights also mean motorists must stop at least 20 feet from the bus or face a minimum fine of $500 and a misdemeanor. "The school buses are obviously transporting the precious cargo. They have students on board that are trying to get to school or get home at the end of the day. And when the red lights are flashing, it's when the bus is stopped, and the kids are getting on and off. That's when they're most vulnerable to something bad happening from somebody going by that school bus illegally," said Lt. Brian Reu, Minnesota State Patrol. Drivers also can't pass a school bus on either side when students are outside of it. Last year, 2,000 tickets were issued in Minnesota for school bus-related offenses.

OKLAHOMA CITY -Oklahoma City police are investigating a homicide after a person was shot Friday night in northwest Oklahoma City. Police said they received a call around 8 p.m. about a shooting during a disturbance in a neighborhood near Indian Creek Boulevard and Silvertree Drive. When officers arrived, they said they 41-year-old Brandon Howell was dead from a gunshot injury. Police said the shooter stayed on scene to speak to detective. The shooter told police Howell was banging on his front door and when he went to open the door, Howell forced his way inside the person’s residence starting an altercation. “It’s unknown what motivated this attack or made him go up and knock on this door and then get involved in an altercation,” said Msgt. Gary Knight, Oklahoma City Police Department. “It was during the altercation that he was shot and killed.”The shooter was questioned by detectives and released with an arrest. “There’s the Stand Your Ground law and every person has the right to defend themselves or another person who is innocent and under attack,” said Knight. Police did not say if anyone else was inside the home at the time of the shooting.

With varsity-eligible players now in the single digits, Lexington has made the difficult decision to forfeit Thursday night’s football game at Middlesex Liberty rival Winchester, as well as the Oct. 30th matchup against Arlington. A decision on the Thanksgiving morning meeting at Concord-Carlisle, in the teams’ 104th meeting, is not final. “This has been a hard day, but there is relief,” said Lexington athletic director Naomi Martin. “We have had honest conversations with the [Middlesex] league on a week by week basis, and we can not put a varsity team on the field this week.” Martin reached out to Winchester AD Wayne Puglisi, as well as Jeff Bowler (Arlington) and Aaron Joncas (Concord-Carlisle). Lexington dropped to 0-6 — and was 7-36 the previous four seasons — after a 62-0 defeat to Reading Thursday night. With its senior night scheduled for this week, Winchester will host Lexington for a sub-varsity game Thursday (5:30 p.m.), and honor the program’s seniors prior to kickoff. Get Varsity NewsYour weekly look at the top high school sports stories. Enter Email“We don’t want to let other teams down. We want Winchester to be able to honor its seniors,” said Martin.

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A man and two dogs were found dead inside a Winthrop home Monday, police said. At 3:37 p.m., officers responded to a report “of a person in need of assistance” at a home near MaGee’s Corner, Winthrop police said in a statement. The man and two dogs were found dead inside the home, the statement said. The manner and cause of their deaths was not immediately available. Winthrop police and the Suffolk district attorney’s office is investigating. The DA’s office was not immediately available for comment Monday night. No further information was immediately available. Madyline Swearing can be reached at madyline.swearing@globe.com.

Over the weekend, a mysterious Russian satellite moved threateningly close to a U. S. commercial radar satellite that provides imagery to the Ukrainian military. Although the Russian craft is now backing off, analysts are left wondering: What was the Russian satellite doing at such close proximity? Was Russia planning to attack the U. S. satellite but reversed course? And, crucially, what happens next? “We just don’t know,” said Clayton Swope, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington. The maneuvers are an escalation of cat-and-mouse games that Russia, the United States and China have been playing with one another in space, mainly involving military spacecraft. This episode indicates that commercial satellites can be targets as well. The Russian satellite was one of six that launched on a Soyuz rocket in April. Russia said nothing about the satellites, and, like many presumed military spacecraft, they were given a generic Kosmos designation, with numbers 2609 through 2614. Beginning on Sept.

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