Rochette takes well-earned rest
Joannie Rochette plans to spend time with her family, teach her dad to cook, and perhaps buy a new house during a break from competitive figure skating after her emotional bronze-medal performance at the Vancouver Olympics.

Woolstencroft wins 4th gold medal
Lauren Woolstencroft of North Vancouver won the women's standing super-giant slalom ski race Friday for her fourth gold medal of the Paralympics.

Anna Nicole's estate won't get tycoon's wealth
A court in San Francisco has ruled that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get nothing from the estate of her late husband J. Howard Marshall.

9/11 deal for workers 'not enough': judge
A federal judge has rejected a mutimillion-dollar deal to compensate thousands of emergency workers who had claimed that cleaning up the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center had made them sick.

Blackburn sorry for airport tequila incident
Veterans Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn has apologized for trying to bring a bottle of tequila through security at Ottawa airport last month.

New B.C. avalanche kills snowmobiler
A massive avalanche in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry on Friday killed at least one snowmobiler, injured two others and sparked a search for anyone else caught in the second deadly slide in the area in the past week.