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PENNSAUKEN, N.J. - The Dad Vail Regatta is back, but in a different venue, breaking with tradition and taking place in New Jersey, rather than in Fairmount Park, on the Schuylkill River.The biggest regatta in the nation is taking things to South Jersey for the first time ever in its history. It’s a change, for sure, but one that James Hannah, with the regatta organizing committee, says was necessary, for now."In terms of change, that is substantial.

Ontario are looking to head to Canada’s highest court in the latest chapter of their battles with the province over the COVID-19 pandemic.The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCFC), which represents the Aylmer Church of God and the Trinity Bible Chapel in Woolwich, says in a release that it has filed the paperwork with the Supreme Court of Canada in its latest appeal bid.The case has made its way through the court system as both of the churches have faced a variety of charges, including findings of contempt, for repeatedly defying restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.The JCFC says Pastor Henry Hildebrandt and the Aylmer Church of God were ordered to pay $274,000 in fines and costs for violating the pandemic rules by holding several drive-in services in 2021.Elders at the church in Elmira were also ordered to pay thousands of dollars in fines while the doors to their building were also locked for several months after several gatherings were held inside in 2021.In March of 2022, the initial appeal by the church was dismissed by an Ontario judge.Lawyers for the churches had argued that both indoor and outdoor gathering restrictions issued by the Ontario government were over-broad, unreasonable, arbitrary limits that violated Charter rights and cannot be justified in a free and democratic society.The JCFC then took the case to the court of appeal in December 2022, where their objections to the March ruling were also dismissed.— with files from Global News

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illegal eel trafficking. According to the law enforcement agency, 1.5 tons of live eels were seized, along with "several tons of frozen batches" of eels not suitable for the food chain. More than €2 million in assets were also confiscated.Police searched 30 homes, businesses, and "clandestine hatcheries" in Spain, France, Belgium, and Poland."It is a highly valued product in some Asian countries" the agency explained on Thursday, adding that the consumption makes it reach values of more than $5000 per kilogram.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities have charged an inmate who they say helped two fellow inmates escape a Philadelphia prison last weekend, sparking a dayslong manhunt across the city. Jose Flores-Huerta, a 35-year-old who is currently incarcerated at Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, was charged Thursday with Escape and Criminal Conspiracy. Flores-Huerta is incarcerated for a deadly group beating at Pat's King of Steaks in Sept. 2021 that claimed the life of 28-year-old Isidro Cortez. It's alleged that Flores-Huerta helped Nasir Grant, 24, and Ameen Hust, 18, free themselves from the prison last Sunday night through a hole in a perimeter fence. Prisons Commissioner Blanche Carney told reporters the duo missed three headcounts before prison guards realized they were missing Monday afternoon.One of the two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison on Sunday was captured by U.S.

Jamie Foxx‘s daughter Corinne Foxx is speaking out in response to rumors about his health, specifically that the family is “preparing for the worst.”

Jamie Foxx’s daughter, Corinne, offered a significant update about her father amid widespread speculation regarding his health.

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, says it is pulling out of the Canadian market.

BOISE, Idaho - Lori Vallow, the so-called "Doomsday mom," has been found guilty of killing her two children and conspiring to kill her husband's previous wife.Vallow is guilty on all six counts:Prosecutors say Vallow, her husband Chad Daybell, and her late brother Alex Cox, hatched a plan to kill Vallow’s two kids, 7-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as Chad’s previous wife, Tammy Daybell.Investigators say Vallow and Daybell used their religious beliefs to justify these three killings. They allegedly claimed JJ and Tylee became zombies and that a dark spirit possessed Tammy who died suddenly in October 2019.Authorities discovered JJ and Tylee’s bodies in June 2020, located in Daybell’s backyard.

HATFIELD, Pa. - A man and a woman are dead after a house fire in Hatfield early Friday morning.Fire crews were called to the 2800 block of Washington Lane just before 4:30 a.m. for a house fire.

FILE-Eggs are on display at a grocery store on January 31, 2023 in Cohasset, Massachusetts. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images) With food costs surging, there could be relief for consumers buying eggs. Egg prices could dip soon in part because of lower wholesale prices retailers are paying for eggs, according to a U.S.

South Carolina bride killed in a wedding night crash lashed out at the driver whose blood alcohol level was allegedly more than three times the legal limit, saying "This was not an accident." Samantha Miller, 34, died and her groom Aric Hutchinson, 36, was seriously injured when Jamie Komoroski rear-ended their golf cart after they left their reception in Folly Beach. Komoroski, 25, had a blood-alcohol level of .261% during the April 28 collision, according to an incident report released by police Thursday."It wasn't an accident. This person chose to drink, get behind the wheel, and plow down my daughter," Lisa Miller, an addiction specialist, told Fox News Digital.

Jamie Foxx's daughter, Corinne, has just offered a significant update about her father: He's been «out of the hospital for weeks» now and «recuperating.» So much so, Corinne said the Oscar-winning actor played pickleball on Thursday.Corinne took to her Instagram Story on Friday and slammed numerous reports claiming Foxx's loved ones were preparing for the worst by sharing an update from the family that reads, «Sad to see how the media runs wild. My Dad has been out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating.

An aerial view shows people enjoying warm weather at the Long Branch Beach on May 16, 2020. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) LONG BRANCH, NJ - A New Jersey town is cracking down on so-called ‘pop-up parties’ and says it will continue to take legal action against alleged organizers and promoters.City officials say they recently learned of an event that was scheduled to take place Friday evening and had been advertised on social media.

ESCONDIDO, Calif. - An 8-week-old kitten is on the mend after the tiny animal got its head stuck in the frame of a truck in California. The driver of the truck was on the road on Monday and heard "meowing sounds" at a stop sign, according to the San Diego Humane Society. Upon further inspection, the driver discovered the female kitten with its head stuck in a hole in the frame of the truck.RELATED: Watch: Police respond to calls for help, turns out to be 'very upset goat'The truck driver contacted the San Diego Humane Society, whose staff members sedated the kitten and worked to safely extract the animal. "After sedating the kitten, they patiently used Q-tips to dislodge her head and free her from the tight spot," the humane society said in a post on Facebook about the ordeal. The kitten was then taken to the humane society’s Escondido campus "for additional care, including pain medication, fluids, antibiotics and a good meal."The kitten is pictured in screengrabs from a video shared by the San Diego Humane Society of the rescue.

FILE - Blackberries garnished with green Boston lettuce leaves. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images) New research suggests that eating a healthy diet emphasizing more foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains can be as good as taking an additional 4,000 steps a day – and particularly for middle-aged adults.A person’s cardiorespiratory fitness refers to the body’s ability to provide and use oxygen for exercise, involving the heart, lungs, blood vessels and muscles.

As a teenager, Demi Lovato would sit on her tour bus in tears, questioning why she felt so miserable despite adoring fans gathering outside her windows expressing their love for her. As she navigated the arduous path from child star to adulthood, her struggles escalated until the game-changing day she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

BOISE, Idaho - Deliberations resumed Friday for the murder trial of Lori Vallow, a former Valley mom accused of killing her two children and conspiring to murder her husband's previous wife.The jury started deliberating over the case on Thursday. The prosecution's closing arguments reiterated what was said during the opening statements, claiming money, power and sex motivated the killings.The lead prosecutor says Vallow and Chad Daybell's affair set off events leading to the murder of three people: J.J. Vallow, Tylee Ryan and Tammy Daybell.

FILE-Image of a sunset in Alaska. (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) UTQIAGVIK, Alaska - It will be a "sunshine tsunami" for one northern Alaskan town for the next 83 days.Friday marks the first day with 24-hour daylight in the annual period known to locals as Midnight Sun.The sun rose Thursday at 2:12 a.m AKDT in Utqiagvik.

Two problems facing Canadian real estate seem, at first glance, like an obvious answer to one another.

NEWARK, Del. - A suspect accused of carjacking a woman outside a Delaware gym in the middle of the day has been arrested as the search for a second continues, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Officials say the carjacking took place on May 7 just before 3 p.m.

The Richland Township Police Department is searching for suspects seen in the images above, who are wanted in connection with the theft of multiple rifles from a home.  RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Investigators in Bucks County are searching for suspects who stole weapons from a home, police say. According to authorities, the incident occurred on March 18 in Richland Township. The Richland Township Police Department says the group of suspects broke into two homes on Union Road. In both burglaries, the suspects were captured on surveillance videos between the hours of 4 a.m.

Title 42 expired, migrants along the border were still wading into the Rio Grande to take their chances getting into the country, defying officials shouting for them to turn back. Others hunched over cellphones trying to access an appointment app, a centerpiece of the new measures, while others with appointments walked across a bridge hoping for a new life. And lawsuits sought to stop some of the measures.

PHILADELPHIA - A man has died after he was hit by a car while crossing the street in North Philadelphia, police say. According to officials, the incident occurred on Thursday night around 9:30 p.m.

EAST SHORE, Calif. - The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude 5.5 earthquake in Plumas County in Northern California Thursday afternoon.

in Louisiana are investigating a "suspicious death" after a body was found in a walk-in freezer at an Arby's restaurant in New Iberia, police said.The New Iberia Police Department said the female victim was an employee at the restaurant on E. Admiral Doyle Drive, according to KADN.

It is no secret that there are countless historical sites dotted around Scotland that were once—and in many cases still are—believed to hold magical properties.

FILE - Lyft signage on a vehicle as it exits the ride-sharing pickup at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California, on Feb. 3, 2022.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process.The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border for the past three years.

NEW YORK - Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old Marine veteran at the center of Jordan Neely's choking death aboard a subway train last week, has turned himself in to police to face a criminal charge over the incident.Neely, who was homeless, died back on May 1 after Penny allegedly held him in a chokehold for several minutes.According to witnesses, Neely was yelling at and harassing passengers on the train before he was subdued by Neely and others, and ultimately died.Manhattan prosecutors say they will bring criminal charges against a man who used a deadly chokehold on an unruly passenger aboard a New York City subway train.The Medical Examiner's office later ruled Neely's death a homicidecaused by compression on the neck.Penny faces a charge of second-degree manslaughter, which could carry a jail term of up to 15 years."Second-degree manslaughter means that they're charging him with having recklessly caused the death. Recklessly means that he was operating with a substantial and justifiable risk of causing death to another person," explained Andrew Cherkasky, a former federal prosecutor."I think that some people are going to be upset about this that it wasn’t more serious.

FILE - An adult female Anopheles mosquito bites a human body. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Why are some people seemingly a mosquito magnet, while others are able to avoid those pesky bites? A new, small study suggests that certain soaps and scents may make one more or less attractive to the insects.  However, the effects vary between people – and each person’s unique human scent also plays a role, according to the researchers. The study, conducted by researchers at Virginia Tech and published on May 10 in the journal iScience, included four human volunteers whose chemical odors were studied both when unwashed, and after they had washed themselves with each of four brands of soap: Dial, Dove, Native, and Simple Truth. The team also analyzed the odor profiles of the soaps themselves.Soap-washing was found to impact the mosquitoes’ preferences, but this differed between soap types and the human volunteers.

PENNSYLVANIA - Two high schools in Pennsylvania closed their doors out of an abundance of caution and switched to remote learning on Friday due to threats, officials say. Students and staff at Pennsbury and Neshaminy high schools will be remote after both schools received threatening messages. An announcement posted on the Neshaminy High School website says the school received tips containing screenshots from social media alleging a threat against the school on Friday. Middletown Township Police launched an investigation to find the source of the threat, but school officials say the high school switched to remote learning out of an abundance of caution. This announcement posted to the Neshaminy High School website details information about a threat made against the school.  Officials at Pennsbury High School say the school also received a threat against the school for Friday. RELATED: State Police investigating series of 'false' threats made against schools across PennsylvaniaOfficers with the Falls Township Police Department were notified, and the department is investigating the source of the threat, according to a school announcement. Students are set to undergo asynchronous instruction.  This message announcing remote learning was posted on the Pennsbury High School website on May 12, 2023.

PHILADELPHIA - Homicide detectives in Philadelphia are investigating a shooting that left one man dead on Friday morning. According to authorities, the shooting erupted on the 800 block of Hutton Street in the city's Belmont section around 2:15 a.m. Chief Inspector Scott Small said police responded to the scene for reports of gunshots and found a 59-year-old man sitting in the driver's seat of a Chevy. Police say the man was unresponsive with gunshot wounds to his neck and chest. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESThe victim was transported to Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials say. According to investigators, the window of the vehicle was down when they arrived on scene. The victim lives several blocks away from the fatal shooting scene, police say. The investigation is active and ongoing.

(Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) Shell is putting residents' health at risk by persistently violating air quality standards at its massive new petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania, an environmental group alleged in a lawsuit Thursday.The "cracker" plant, located along the Ohio River about 30 miles (48 kilometers) outside Pittsburgh, opened in November and uses ethane from a vast shale gas reservoir underneath Pennsylvania and surrounding states to makes polyethylene, a plastic used in everything from consumer and food packaging to tires.A federal lawsuit filed by the Clean Air Council alleges that operator Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC — a subsidiary of British oil and gas giant Shell plc — is violating state and federal limits on smog, as well as emissions limits in its state-approved operating plan.Clean Air Council members who live near the plant are "concerned about the impact of the plant’s illegal pollution on their health and the health of their families," the suit said, noting that smog can worsen respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and asthma. The plaintiffs asked a judge to order Shell to bring the plant into compliance, and impose civil penalties of up to $140,000 per day.RELATED COVERAGEShell spokesperson Curtis Smith said the company had no comment on the suit.The plant has been shut down for repairs since early April after Shell said it identified a problem with its flaring system, which is designed to burn off unwanted gases.

Morgan Wallen is the latest high-profile artist to cancel a tour due to health struggles. On Tuesday, the 29-year-old country music singer announced in an Instagram video he was postponing six weeks of his "One Night At A Time" world tour after receiving "bad news" from his doctors at Vanderbilt Voice Center.

Chicago police said Wednesday.The four were ordered held without bail Wednesday by Judge David Kelly, who said prosecutors had provided “a mountain of evidence“ that the suspects had “engaged in a very violent crime spree.”Preston was technically off her shift when she was killed, but she was still wearing her uniform that night as she walked home. The Chicago Police Department said Monday that it will rule Preston’s killing a “line of duty death,” which will secure additional benefits for Preston’s family.After the bond hearing for the four teens on Wednesday, Preston’s mother, Dionne Mhoon, said she was “heartbroken” and “full of anger, rage, questions why.”An initial timeline of events was released by police, who believe the teens drove past the off-duty cop in a sedan and circled back to approach her as she stood outside her home in Avalon Park, a neighbourhood in Chicago’s South Side.Residential surveillance video shows three people getting out of the sedan and running toward Preston.

Jacklyn Zeman, who played Bobbie Spencer for 45 years on ABC’s General Hospital, has died. She was 70.Zeman died after a short battle with cancer, her family confirmed Wednesday.

Lainey Wilson, with some big wins at the 58th annual ACM Awards and a spotlight stealing performance.ET's Rachel Smith spoke with Wilson after the show, and the celebrated country crooner opened up about her father, Brian — who she previously brought to an awards show last November, and revealed that he'd suffered from an infection due to diabetic ketoacidosis that left him in the ICU for nearly two months.As it turns out, her dad was in the audience on Thursday to watch his little girl take home four ACM Awards — including Female Artist of the Year — and is back to doing what he loves after a long recovery process.He's good! He's here tonight, out in the crowd, and he's doing OK," Wilson shared. «He's getting to ride the tractor and farm, he's back doing those kind of things.

One of Canada’s largest labour disruptions has entered a sixth day as the union representing thousands of striking public-service workers looks to hamper access to ports.

Canada’s biggest federal public service union is preparing to ramp up its ongoing strike by moving picket lines to strategic locations such as ports on Monday.

The president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) said Saturday that the union has not heard a response from the Treasury Board yet on a proposal for a deal that the union’s team submitted Thursday night.

Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is billing as “one of the largest strikes in Canada’s history,” more than 155,000 federal workers have walked off the job with many now on the picket lines.The strike kicked off Wednesday 12.01 a.m. Eastern, with nearly a third of the country’s public servants halting work after the union representing them failed to reach an agreement with the government.Picket lines are being set up in more than 250 locations across the country, according to PSAC.

PSAC) announced Tuesday night, after the union failed to reach an agreement with the federal government.Canada’s largest public service union had set a deadline of 9 p.m. Eastern Tuesday for the two sides to make a deal.

More than 155,000 federal public servants will strike on Wednesday if no deal is reached between the federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada.