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• Teen struck by car near southwest school

  11-06-2019 22:45
  A young woman is in hospital after she was hit by a sedan near Henry Wise Wood High School Tuesday morning. Calgary police say a female pedestrian was hit in a crosswalk at the intersection of 73rd Avenue and Elbow Drive S.W., at around 9:50 a.m. Paramedics confirmed the teenager was taken to hospital with multiple serious, but non-life threatening injuries. According to police, the driver, a woman in her late 70s, stayed at the scene. Charges are currently being considered and the investigation
  
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• Alberta village facing 7 OHS charges after woman killed by falling lawn mower in 2017

  11-06-2019 22:35 via globalnews.ca
  In June 2017, a 21-year-old woman died from injuries she sustained while doing maintenance work on a large riding lawn mower in a small Alberta village.
  
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• Closing arguments heard in Lethbridge man’s attempted murder case

  11-06-2019 21:59 via globalnews.ca
  Robert John Sheppard was back in court on Tuesday as the Crown and defence read closing arguments.
  
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• Injunction protecting work on northern B.C. gas pipeline heads back to court

  11-06-2019 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  The natural gas company is building a pipeline from northeastern B.C. to LNG Canada's export terminal in Kitimat on the coast.
  
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• Commons committee urges feds to consider decriminalizing simple drug possession

  11-06-2019 21:43
  OTTAWA -- The House of Commons health committee is recommending the federal government look at Portugal's decriminalization of simple possession of illicit drugs and examine how the idea could be "positively applied in Canada." The committee made the recommendation, among others, after committee members travelled across Canada to witness the impacts of methamphetamine use and its rapid increase in some communities. The committee's report says many of the witnesses appearing before the committee
  
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• More Albertans suffering in insolvency silence

  11-06-2019 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  With more Calgarians delinquent in debt payments, and insolvencies reaching their highest point in the city since 1998, the need to talk about debt has reached a high mark.
  
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• Mom of five slain children asks mercy for ex-husband in his trial

  11-06-2019 21:26
  COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The mother of five children who were killed by their father stunned a South Carolina courtroom on Tuesday by asking the jury to spare her ex-husband's life. "He did not show my children any mercy by any means. But my kids loved him and if I'm speaking on behalf of my kids and not myself, that's what I have to say," Amber Kyzer said on the witness stand. But she clearly felt torn. "I hear what my kids went through and what they endured. And as a mother, if I could personally rip
  
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• Tory premiers ‘playing games’ with national unity in letter opposing C-69: Trudeau

  11-06-2019 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  Conservative premiers sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday demanding he accept all amendments to C-69.
  
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• Thousands of Alberta residents forced out by wildfire to be allowed home Wednesday

  11-06-2019 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  As long as conditions hold, residents of Bigstone Cree Nation and Wabasca-Demarais will be allowed to return home on Wednesday. Wildfire forced mandatory evacuations on May 29.
  
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• Trudeau calls out Tory premiers for 'playing games' with national unity over C-69

  11-06-2019 21:13
  OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it is "absolutely irresponsible" for conservative premiers to threaten to tear Canada apart if the government doesn't accept all the Senate's amendments to new environmental-assessment legislation. The Liberals are expected to say as early as Wednesday what they want to do with the 187 amendments made to Bill C-69 in the Senate last week. The bill would revamp the way the federal government evaluates major infrastructure projects, from pipelines to in
  
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• “I felt sick to my stomach”: Calgary mom speaks out after 4-year-old cut by razors on playground

  11-06-2019 21:12
  A Calgary family is in shock after a four-year-old boy was cut by disposable razor blades wedged into a playground slide in Thorncliffe. Gillian Webster says her son James was cut at a northeast playground Monday morning and he suffered minor injuries that did not require stitches. “I felt sick to my stomach," said Webster. "I felt extreme sadness, anger. It was quite a shock as I’m sure it would be for any parent." "It’s not something that you would ever think would happen to
  
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• Four-year-old cut by razor blades on playground slide

  11-06-2019 21:12
  A Calgary family says they are in shock after a four-year-old boy was cut by disposable razor blades wedged into a playground slide. Gillian Webster says her young son, James, was cut Monday morning, suffering minor injuries to his buttocks and hand.   Calgary police confirm they were called to a playground at 60th Avenue and Centre Street N.E., in the community of Thorncliffe. Police say the razors were removed before officers arrived and there are no CCTV cameras in the area. They’r
  
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• Researchers find Canadian Arctic island coast collapsing up to a metre a day

  11-06-2019 20:44
  The frozen coastline of a Canadian Arctic island is eroding at up to a metre a day as a warming climate leads to longer summers, new research has found. Researchers say the rate of collapse they found is six times faster than the average for the previous 65 years. “Big chunks of land were breaking away and waves were eating them away,” said the study’s co-author Isla Myers-Smith, a geoscientist at the University of Edinburgh. “They were often gone by the next day.”
  
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• Two held at gunpoint during home invasion that targeted wrong address, say police

  11-06-2019 20:25
  Two people were held at gunpoint during a home invasion police say may have targeted the wrong address. Three men forced their way into a residence in the 1100 block of 11 Street S.W. as a homeowner opened the door about 10:20 p.m. on April 14. Police said in a release the suspects held two adults inside at gunpoint “until the offenders were subsequently scared off and left the residence.” No injuries were reported and investigators believe the men may have targeted the wrong address
  
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• AHS ‘wellness tip of the day’ now available on command through smart home devices

  11-06-2019 20:21 via globalnews.ca
  All users need to do is ask their smart home device for the tip of the day.
  
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• Lack of oxygen didn’t cause Ezekiel Stephan’s death: medical examiner

  11-06-2019 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  The medical examiner who did an autopsy on an 18-month-old boy says there was no suggestion a lack of oxygen had anything to do with the child's death.
  
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• Order of Canada recipient says Nepal child rape conviction wrongful

  11-06-2019 19:39
  TORONTO -- An Order of Canada recipient has been found guilty of sexually assaulting children in Nepal after a police investigation and trial his lawyers describe as a travesty of justice. Sentencing for Peter Dalglish, expected in about two weeks, could see the well-known aid worker jailed for as long as 13 years. "This has been like watching a wrongful conviction unfold in real time," Dalglish's Canadian lawyer, Nader Hasan, said in an interview Tuesday. "We have deep concerns about the proces
  
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• Alberta Court of Appeal upholds Edmonton man’s extradition to U.S. to face terrorism charges

  11-06-2019 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld an extradition order for a man facing terrorism charges in the United States.
  
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• ‘This is a cesspool of hypocrisy’: Protester storms stage at Global Petroleum Show

  11-06-2019 19:33 via globalnews.ca
  A second angle shows a protester rush the stage ahead of Jason Kenney’s speech at the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary on Tuesday.
  
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• Climate change may cost world one-sixth of all marine life, Canadian study finds

  11-06-2019 18:57
  WASHINGTON -- The world's oceans will likely lose about one sixth of its fish and other marine life by the end of the century if climate change continues on its current path, a new study says. Every degree Celsius that the world's oceans warm, the total mass of sea animals is projected to drop by 5 per cent, according to a comprehensive computer-based study by an international team of marine biologists. And that does not include effects of fishing. If the world's greenhouse gas emissions stay at
  
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• Protester storms stage ahead of Premier Jason Kenney’s speech at 2019 Global Petroleum Show

  11-06-2019 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  Security and Calgary police removed a man who took the stage at the 2019 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary on Tuesday, just before Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was set to speak.
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld signs on to perform at Owen Hart Foundation fundraiser

  11-06-2019 18:17
  This year marks the 20th anniversary for the Owen Hart Foundation and the organization is bringing Jerry Seinfeld back to Calgary to perform in the fall. Seinfeld will perform his comedy routine at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium on October 18. He was here a decade ago for the foundation’s 10th anniversary and Martha Hart says the plan to bring him back for the 20th anniversary has been a long time in the making. “To date Jerry Seinfeld is the only repeat entertainer the OHF
  
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• Man facing attempted murder, arson and drug charges after attack in Airdrie

  11-06-2019 17:49
  A man is now facing attempted murder, arson and weapons charges relating to a fire and assault on a woman in Airdrie on Sunday. Emergency crews were called to an apartment complex on Willowbrook Road just after 8 p.m. Sunday for reports that a woman had been seriously injured. The woman was rushed to hospital with “severe, life-altering injuries,” police said in a release, and her condition has since been upgraded to stable. Soon after, a fire was reported in the woman’s apartm
  
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• Calgary dairy producer has licence suspended by Canadian Food Inspection Agency

  11-06-2019 16:31
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has suspended the licence of a Calgary milk producer. The Safe Food for Canadians licence of Mother Dairy, located on 47th Street N.E., was suspended May 21 for failing to identify hazards, having a lack of appropriate equipment and failing to implement a preventive control plan and document a food complaint process, according to a release. There is no food recall associated with the suspension. According to its website, some of the products the company
  
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• Drive-in theatre approved by High River town council

  11-06-2019 16:17
  A community group in High River has been given the green light to go ahead with a proposed drive-in theatre for the area. The River City Classic’s Car Club came up with the idea and on Monday the project was approved by town council. The group has already purchased the projectors, an FM transmitter and the screen for the theatre. Club president Jeff Langford says now they just have to sign the lease on the land and they will be in business. They hope to have the drive-in up and runnin
  
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• Protester storms stage at 2019 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary

  11-06-2019 16:03 via globalnews.ca
  A protester who said he does not want the province of Alberta “to be polluted” stormed the stage at the 2019 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary on Tuesday.
  
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• Canada’s energy market takes centre stage at 2019 Global Petroleum Show

  11-06-2019 16:03 via globalnews.ca
  Some 50,000 people are expected to attend the three-day event at Calgary’s Stampede Park.
  
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• Mother bobcat carries kittens across Calgary road

  11-06-2019 15:47
  A mother bobcat was caught on camera as she moved her kittens across a busy northwest Calgary road on Monday afternoon. Brenda Anderson was rolling when the bobcat moved her kittens across Charleswood Drive and said the mother made a few trips. "She was moving the kittens from someone’s yard to an unknown location, but it seems like another yard. It’s near Nose Hill, but she’s not going up there. I think there’s more hiding places within the residential. One kitten she mo
  
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• Energy leaders gather in Calgary for annual Global Petroleum Show

  11-06-2019 15:23
  The Global Petroleum Show kicks off in Calgary on Tuesday and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is among the speakers at this year’s event. The energy expo and conference attracts over 50,000 oil and gas executives from over 21,000 companies around the world. Over 100 experts will speak at various conference sessions during the week and thousands of companies are participating in the exhibition. Premier Kenney is among the speakers and is scheduled to talk to industry leaders on Tuesday at 10 a
  
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• Man rips Confederate flag off back of moving truck in viral video

  11-06-2019 15:22
  A short video showing a man rip off a Confederate flag from the back a slow-moving transport truck in the middle of traffic has gone viral. In the 40-second clip, an African American man in a white T-shirt can be seen running up to the back of a transport truck with a small Confederate flag pasted on it as James Brown’s “The Payback” plays in the background. The man then jogs behind the moving truck for several seconds before he manages to peel the flag off of its back door.I s
  
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• Robert Leeming scheduled to appear in court Tuesday

  11-06-2019 15:21
  Accused double-killer Robert Leeming is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning for a preliminary hearing. Leeming, 34, is accused in the deaths of Calgary mother Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her 22-month-old daughter, Aliyah Sanderson. The bodies of Lovett and Sanderson were found in a wooded area near Grizzly Creek, along Highway 40 west of Calgary, in the early morning hours of May 6, three weeks after they were reported missing by family. Police have not said what led them to that area. Love
  
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• Robert Leeming appears in court, case adjourned until February 2020

  11-06-2019 15:21
  Accused double-killer Robert Leeming made a court appearance Tuesday morning. His case has now been put over until Feb. 3, 2020 for a preliminary hearing. Leeming, 34, is accused in the deaths of Calgary mother Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her 22-month-old daughter, Aliyah Sanderson. The bodies of Lovett and Sanderson were found in a wooded area near Grizzly Creek, along Highway 40 west of Calgary, in the early morning hours of May 6 after they were reported missing by family. Police have not said wh
  
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• Southeast stabbing results in several arrests

  11-06-2019 14:54
  Several men were taken into custody early Tuesday following a stabbing in the city’s southeast. Police were called to a home in the 100 block of Cranleigh Garden S.E. about 4:30 a.m. after a fight broke out and a man was stabbed. He suffered minor injuries. Police say the suspects fled but officers were able to track them down and now have several men in custody.
  
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• Wildfire evacuees can return home Wednesday

  11-06-2019 14:52
  People displaced by the McMillan Wildfire Complex are set to return home. Approximately 3,500 people from Bigstone Cree Nation and the Hamlet of Wabasca-Desmarais will be allowed to return to their communities on Wednesday, after being evacuated on May 29.Stay up to date with our dedicated Alberta Wildfires pageThe fire departments in Wabasca and Bigstone Cree Nation are warning returning residents that the situation is still hazardous, and asking them to be cautious around the firefighting equi
  
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• Pro-energy rally in Calgary draws thousands of pipeline supporters

  11-06-2019 14:41
  A pro-pipeline group claims a noon-hour rally on Tuesday in support of the oil and gas industry is one of the largest in Canadian history. Canada Action, a non-partisan group, says at least 4,000 people attended the event at the Stampede grounds.  The rally coincided with the 51st annual Global Petroleum Show and was in anticipation of next week’s federal cabinet decision on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. “The Trans Mountain expansion, while an incredibly importa
  
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• Pro-energy rally expected to draw thousands in Calgary

  11-06-2019 14:41
  A pro-pipeline group claims a noon-hour rally planned for Tuesday in support of the oil and gas industry will be one of the largest in Canadian history. Canada Action, a non-partisan group, says more than 5,000 people are expected to attend the event at the Stampede grounds.  The rally will coincide with the 51st annual Global Petroleum Show, running June 11 to 13, and in anticipation of next week’s federal cabinet decision on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. “The
  
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• SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce retires, Ian Edwards named interim CEO

  11-06-2019 14:16
  MONTREAL -- Neil Bruce, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.'s chief executive, is stepping down from the beleaguered engineering giant after a nearly four-year tenure that saw its stock fall by roughly half and its projects overshadowed by a political controversy tied to an ongoing corruption case. Ian Edwards, the company's chief operating officer, has been named interim chief executive effective Tuesday. SNC-Lavalin said the board of directors has asked Edwards to review "the strategic direction of the com
  
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• In the news today, June 11 - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2019 14:04 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  In the news today, June 11  Lethbridge News NowFour stories in the news for Tuesday, June 11 --- ROARING RAPTORS' FANS GO QUIET AS WARRIORS WIN Almost 2...
  
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• Thai tycoon gets additional year in prison in poaching case

  11-06-2019 14:00
  BANGKOK -- A Thai construction tycoon on Tuesday was sentenced to an additional one year in prison for bribing a park ranger in relation to a high-profile case of poaching endangered animals in a wildlife sanctuary last year. A Bangkok court said in a statement that it sentenced Premchai Karnasuta, the president of Italian-Thai Development PLC, for attempting to bribe the sanctuary's chief ranger, who had arrested him, to let him go free. In February last year, Premchai and his company's employe
  
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• Trump and Biden head to Iowa in a potential 2020 preview

  11-06-2019 12:33
  DES MOINES, Iowa -- After months of jabbing each other from afar, U.S. President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will overlap Tuesday in Iowa, a state that's critical to their political futures. For Biden, a convincing win in next year's caucuses would cement him as the Democratic front-runner and reinforce his chief argument that he is the party's best-positioned candidate to beat Trump. The Republican president, meanwhile, is seeking to shore up his Iowa support as part of a broader effort
  
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• Biden, Trump trade jabs in possible 2020 election preview

  11-06-2019 12:33
  DAVENPORT, Iowa -- U.S. President Donald Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden repeatedly laid into each other while travelling in the battleground state of Iowa, unleashing verbal attacks that at times felt more appropriate for the final weeks before Election Day than a lazy summer about 17 months before voters go to the polls. The back-and-forth on Tuesday laid bare the rising political stakes for each man. Trump has zeroed in on Biden as a threat to his reelection chances and is testing t
  
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• Biden assailing Trump on trade as both come to Iowa

  11-06-2019 12:33
  DES MOINES, Iowa -- Democrat Joe Biden is assailing U.S. President Donald Trump on trade and broadly branding him as "existential threat to America" in a preview of what the country might expect if he prevails in his party's primary contest. The president, also coming to Iowa on Tuesday, was likely to have some choice words in response. Biden was expected to zero in on the economy-- an issue the president often promotes as his chief strength in a time of low unemployment -- during a speech in Da
  
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• Military’s internal prison in Edmonton ‘vastly underutilized,’ report says

  11-06-2019 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  Canada's last military prison costs $2 million a year to run, has a staff of 26 and last had an inmate in mid-April. But it delivers value for money, the military police argue.
  
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• Crime Beat podcast: Sarah Rae, daddy’s little girl

  11-06-2019 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  The sun rose and set on Gord Rae's daughter until she was suddenly ripped from his life in August 2008.
  
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• Alberta promises to fund fall school enrolment growth - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2019 11:56 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Alberta promises to fund fall school enrolment growth  Lethbridge News NowEDMONTON -- The Alberta government is fully funding new students going into grade school classrooms this fall....
  
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• Lethbridge golfers competein MJT stop in Red Deer - Lethbridge Herald

  11-06-2019 10:46 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge golfers competein MJT stop in Red Deer  Lethbridge HeraldLethbridge The Maple League Junior Tour rolled through Red Deer as the MJT Alberta Series hit the links. A pair of Lethbridge golfers were on hand for the.
  
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• Dangerous Offender hearing set for serial sexual offender Trevor Pritchard - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2019 08:54 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Dangerous Offender hearing set for serial sexual offender Trevor Pritchard  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – Two sets of dates have been set aside in February and March 2020 to determine whether sexual offender Trevor Pritchard meets the ...
  
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• Egypt asks U.K. to halt auction of Tutankhamun sculpture

  11-06-2019 08:44
  The Egyptian embassy in London requested that Britain prevent the planned sale by Christie's of an ancient sculpture representing King Tutankhamun's head and return it to Egypt, Cairo said. "The Egyptian embassy in London requested the British foreign affairs ministry and the auction hall to stop the sale," Egypt's foreign ministry said. Christie's has announced that the brown quartzite head of the pharaoh -- measuring 28.5 centimetres high and more than 3,000 years old -- would take place on Ju
  
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• Rules for new corporate ombud criticized for deferring to companies - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2019 08:33 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Rules for new corporate ombud criticized for deferring to companies  Lethbridge News NowOTTAWA — The federal government is giving its new watchdog on international corporate responsibility unprecedented power to hear complaints from ...
  
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• Utah ski resort wants out of lawsuit against Gwyneth Paltrow - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2019 08:15 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Utah ski resort wants out of lawsuit against Gwyneth Paltrow  Lethbridge News NowPARK CITY, Utah - A Utah ski resort where Gwyneth Paltrow is accused of crashing into and injuring a skier ask...
  
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