■ CANADA
Cattle disrupt morning traffic
A trailer carrying cattle tipped over on a busy highway in Toronto on Thursday and backed up morning rush hour traffic. Three cows and a bull were suddenly freed and fled onto the highway, causing chaos and forcing police to shut down the busy roadway for about an hour while they tried to get the animals off to the side. The animals then absconded into a nearby residential neighborhood, where they grazed for awhile on people's lawns. One escaped steer injured two people and charged at police, Ontario Provincial Police Constable Dave Woodford told reporters. After four hours of trying to corral the 450kg animal, an officer finally took it down for safety reasons, using his service revolver, he said.
■ CANADA
Anti-terror blueprints leaked
Public safety officials were investigating on Thursday how blueprints for a new anti-terror headquarters ended up in a trash pile on an Ottawa street. The blueprints detail the layout of the new home of the elite Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit at Trenton, Ontario. A passer-by found the blueprints and turned them over to the government after first contacting the media. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said officials are looking into it. "If there is some kind of security breach that's taken place then clearly that's a huge concern," Day said.
■ CANADA
Thieves call taxi
Two teenage suspects in a convenience store robbery in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, may have made a clean escape had they thought to bring a getaway car along for the heist. Instead, the young men fled the store on foot with an undisclosed amount of money, and then called for a taxi -- which showed up with two police officers inside. The police had been tipped off about the robbery by the wife of the store's lone employee that night. During a phone call with her husband she had heard a commotion, before the call was cut short. She phoned the police who asked a local taxi company to alert them of any suspicious calls from the area. When an out-of-breath caller asked for a cab near the store, police met the taxi, took over from the driver and headed to the pick-up location.
■ UNITED STATES
Woman killed by stingray
A 34kg stingray killed a Michigan woman on Thursday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode in a boat in the Florida Keys, officials said. Judy Kay Zagorski, of Pigeon, Michigan, was sitting in a boat going 40kph when the spotted eagle ray, with a wingspan of 1.5m, leaped out of the water, said Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The impact likely killed the woman, but it was not immediately clear whether she had any puncture wounds from the ray's barb, Pino said. The stingray died from the impact, officials said.
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