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Sydney daycare offering rare service in Nova Scotia: overnight careA daycare in Sydney has launched a pilot project to offer overnight care for the children of health-care professionals.The demonstration project was announced in October and Health Park Early Learning Centre started its Night Owl Program on Monday. The daycare, located near the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, offers evening, overnight, and weekend care for up to 12 children.Catherine MacKenzie's 22-month-old daughter, Laci, was the first to spend the night. "She had snacks, she had everything she
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Bills-Steelers playoff game moved to Monday amid forecast for dangerous winter weatherBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills’ wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers that was scheduled for Sunday was moved to Monday amid a forecast for dangerous winter weather, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Saturday. Hochul and other officials said they were making the change for safety’s sake. “We want our Bills to win, but we don’t want 60,000 to 70,000 people traveling to the football game in what’s going to be horrible conditions,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz sa
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Patriots name Jerod Mayo as next head coach, Bill Belichick's successorFOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Jerod Mayo spent his entire professional football career learning from Bill Belichick, first as a player and then as an assistant. He’ll now have the weighty task of succeeding the future Hall of Famer and leading a New England Patriots team as its first new voice in more than two decades. The Patriots named Mayo to succeed Belichick as the franchise's 15th head coach on Friday. Mayo is the first Black head coach in team history. He will be formally introduced at a news
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Chiefs and Dolphins play fourth-coldest game in NFL history at minus-4 degreesKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins played the fourth-coldest game in NFL history on Saturday night, with bitter wind chills that made it feel even colder at kickoff and intrepid fans bundled up in parkas, snow pants and ski goggles. The temperature for the wild-card playoff game was minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-20 Celsius), and wind gusts up to 27 mph made for a wind chill of minus-27 degrees. That shattered the record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium
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Teenage surfing star granted Canadian citizenship, now sets her sights on OlympicsTeenage surfing prodigy Erin Brooks has won her fight for Canadian citizenship, opening the door for her to compete for Canada at the Paris Olympics. The 16-year-old Brooks was born in Texas and grew up in Hawaii but has Canadian ties through her American-born father Jeff, who is a dual American-Canadian citizen, and her grandfather who was born and raised in Montreal. Brooks' citizenship bid was initially turned down. But Immigration Minister Marc Miller had a change of heart after a December r