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A man in a drug induced stupor sits next to a playground at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco in January.

With good reason, people flock to Florida and the Caribbean to escape the brutal chill of winter.

The Obama administration said Tuesday it's making steady progress on health care sign-ups, but the White House needs something close to a miracle to meet its goal of enrolling 6 million people by the end of this month.

The Calgary Herald's Darcy Henton and the Edmonton Journal's Karen Kleiss have been awarded the 2014 Canadian Hillman Prize for their outstanding journalism and persistent investigation into the deaths of children while in provincial foster care.

That minor earthquake you just felt was the rumble of several million freelancers scrambling for their computers.

The decaying mansion at the corner of Esplanade Avenue and Bourbon street once loomed darkly over the French Quarter, a gothic relic reduced to blight.

A 24-year-old psychology student at the University of Ottawa claims to have the ability to have voluntary out-of-body experiences before going to sleep.

In the mid-'80s, to many people it seemed like the band Chicago was a monster that could not be stopped.

High school senior, Kaylen Gordon, 18, left, waits for a Metro Rail light train on the Gold Line at Union Station in Los Angeles Monday, March 10, 2014.

CBC Radio correspondent Laura Lynch has reported from many parts of the world, most recently Europe and the Middle East.

Greyhound is expanding its presence in St. Paul . Starting Tuesday, the venerable bus company will offer six daily departures and additional weekend service from Union Depot to places such as Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee and Kansas City.

At age 80, retired Chicago physician and educator Dan Winship is getting a bittersweet last chance to teach about medicine - only this time he's the subject.

The odd-looking, four-story vessel made of recycled shipping containers departed from Treasure Island to comply with a Jan. 31 regulatory order concluding that Google Inc. didn't have the proper permits to build it there.

Pedestrians board a train at Union Station Friday March 7, 2014 in Los Angeles. Americans are boarding public buses, trains and subways in greater numbers than any time since the suburbs began to boom.

Have you ever wondered if a person can see themselves during a hospital operation or found themselves out of their body during a near death experience? Maybe you, a family member, a neighbor or a friend have done it.

Ruben Garcia, manager and owner of Garcia's souvenir shop, checks prices on clay dolls in his store in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014.

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In this Feb. 6, 2014, file photo, Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray joins the Congressional Black Caucus on the national day of prayer to remember the poor and homeless, at the Capitol in Washington.

Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson said Russia's strongarm tactics in its former satellite could make it harder for the eight nations on the Arctic Council to reach agreements at a time when the region faces a series of critical issues.

The conference was sponsored by WisDOT. WisDOT, WTBA and ACEC partnered to create ways to improve their working relationships and better understand all party's common goals.