Oscar Pistorius  has been sentenced to five years in prison for the manslaughter of Reeva  Steenkamp – but he could serve just 10 months in jail before being held  under house arrest. Pistorius killed  his girlfriend in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013 when he shot Miss  Steenkamp, who...

Nina Pham, a nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first Ebola-stricken patient in Dallas, is now virus-free. “I think hope just went up a notch today by the fact that we are all here to celebrate the recovery of a patient who was afflicted with a disease that...

The Huffington Post reports, “Nathan Cirillo’s dogs clearly love him as much as he loved them. The dogs broke the nation’s heart Thursday, poking their heads from beneath the fence of Cirillo’s family home in Hamilton, Ont., seemingly waiting for their master’s return. (Dogs peek out from under a gate...

A man missed his chance to re-register at the Surrey Food Bank by 10 minutes and — five days later — he’s still hungry. Residents who receive assistance from the food bank are required to re-register every six months, and while the non-profit is open weekdays, 9:30 a.m. to 1:00...

A CBC News investigation has discovered a rush of suspicious money totalling almost $27 million flowed through two B.C. casinos this spring. Most of the mystery money that came in from mid-March to mid-June arrived in bundles of $20 bills — a common currency used to buy street drugs. With cash transactions at casinos, the source of the...

Animal welfare groups say the population of stray and feral cats in at least one Metro Vancouver city has ballooned out of control. The Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association, or VOKRA, estimates that there are 20,000 stray cats in Surrey alone. “It’s a little disturbing to find that so many are...

PRETORIA, South Africa – The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial urged the judge on Friday to send the Olympic athlete to prison for at least 10 years, calling it the minimum acceptable term and noting the horrific nature of the shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa...

An Atlanta man in his mid-30s was stabbed multiple times by a man he met on Tinder. The man met his date, reportedly named Cedric, at McDonald’s and then drove him to a friend’s condo. The man says as soon as they got inside, Cedric stabbed him with a knife,...

The NY Post reports, “The teenage girls who abandoned their families in Austria to become jihadis for ISIS feel they’ve made a terrible mistake by joining the barbaric lifestyle and they want to come home. Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, are believed to be married, pregnant and living...

The Mirror UK reports, “A heartbroken mum-to-be discovered she was pregnant with a ‘miracle baby’ by  her boyfriend – two days after he died in a car crash. (Heartbroken: Lizzy Phillipson lost her boyfriend Grant Benson) Lizzy Phillipson, 26, and Grant Benson, 21, were unsure they could ever have  a...