BELLEVILLE, Ont. - A teenager faced first-degree murder charges in the deaths of a mother and her daughter at their family home in the small eastern Ontario community of Mountain View, police said Friday.

EDMONTON - Employees and customers of an Edmonton car dealership were struggling to deal with a shooting Friday morning in which two men were killed and a third man sent to hospital.

WINGHAM, Ont. - A provincial police officer who died after a gun battle on a rural southwestern Ontario road was remembered as a "modern-day hero" and a great father at his funeral on Friday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Premier Danny Williams said Friday was a sad day in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador as people mark the first anniversary of a fatal helicopter crash.

OTTAWA - If beleaguered Conservative minister Helena Guergis was hoping for sympathy from her political sisters, former party matriarch Deborah Grey was fresh out.

JACKSON, Miss. - An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district reinstate the dance it cancelled rather than let the couple attend.

BEIJING - Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavoury practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses.

NEW YORK - Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road. And he's coming to Canada.

WASHINGTON - Over the years, "Little Billy" learned much from the country's top minds.

ROME - The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have sex and Rome's mayor saying it sends the wrong message.