News

Sharlene Bosma begged for the safe return of her husband, Tim, at a press conference in Hamilton on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Here Tim is posing with his daughter, who is now two years old. (Photo courtesy the Bosma family)

Second arrest in Bosma case

As an emotional funeral service for Tim Bosma wrapped up over the noon-hour Wednesday, investigators revealed a second arrest has been made in the Ancaster man’s slaying.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. (Andre Forget/QMI Agency)

NDP pledges to abolish Senate

The NDP launched a "roll up the red carpet" campaign Wednesday to abolish the Senate in the face of a growing spending scandal that has followed Prime Minister Stephen Harper to South America.

Peter Worthington.

Worthington final farewell

Family, friends, colleagues and readers are gathering Wednesday to bid farewell to Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington.

A woman searches for possessions at sunset after the suburb of Moore, Okla., was left devastated by a tornado on May 21, 2013. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)

Rescuers comb rubble for buried survivors

Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, houses and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb.

Two girls stand in rubble after a tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene Blevins

Oklahoma lowers tornado death toll

Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, and officials lowered the death toll from the storm to 24, including nine children.