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• Man turns himself into police in Rocky Mountain House homicide case

  27-07-2019 23:19
  A 44-year-old man has turned himself in to RCMP in connection to the homicide of a 28-year-old woman near Rocky Mountain House. Several people called police on Friday around 7:30 p.m. about a man with a gun in a Rocky Mountain House home. By the time RCMP arrived at the scene, the man had fled but police found two women, one dead and the second injured. They were later identified as sisters. The injured woman, who is 29 years old, sustained non-life threatening injuries and has since been releas
  
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• Man turns himself into police in Rocky Mountain House domestic homicide case

  27-07-2019 23:19
  A 44-year-old man has turned himself in to RCMP in connection to the homicide of a 28-year-old woman near Rocky Mountain House. Several people called police on Friday around 7:30 p.m. about a man with a gun in a Rocky Mountain House home. By the time RCMP arrived at the scene, the man had fled but police found two women, one dead and the second injured. They were later identified as sisters. The injured woman, who is 29 years old, sustained non-life threatening injuries and has since been releas
  
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• Man arrested for luggage thefts at YVR

  27-07-2019 22:58
  Police in Richmond have arrested a man in connection with their investigation of recent luggage thefts at Vancouver International Airport. Richmond RCMP said Friday that an officer recognized the suspect from surveillance footage. The man had previously been caught on video stealing luggage, Mounties said, and the video had been circulated to police and YVR security personnel. One week after the original theft, the man returned to YVR, where an on-duty officer recognized him and arrested him bef
  
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• Severe thunderstorm warnings and watches issued across southern Alberta

  27-07-2019 22:40
  Environment Canada has issued severe thunderstorm warnings and watches for a swath of southern Alberta on Saturday.  The warnings were put in place just before 2:30 p.m. and included the City of Calgary, along with:Airdrie, Cochrane, Olds, Sundre Drumheller, Three Hills Red Deer, Ponoka, Innisfail, Stettler“Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing very strong wind gusts, up to nickel size hail and heavy rain,” reads the w
  
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• Street racing the cause of serious crash on Highway 22X: police

  27-07-2019 22:13
  Police say an early-morning crash on Highway 22X at 37th Street S.W. that sent two men to hospital with serious injuries was likely the result of street racing. According to police, a Black Jaguar S-type car and a yellow Nissan Silvia were heading east on Highway 22X at a high rate of speed just after midnight Saturday when they came to a bend in the road under construction near the 37th Street S.W. intersection. Both vehicles left the road and rolled several times then caught fire. Both drivers
  
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• Canadian Snowbirds fly high at Springbank airshow

  27-07-2019 21:50
  This weekend marks the first time Snowbirds pilot Capt. Taylor Evans has flown in the Wings Over Springbank Airshow, but it’s not the first time he’s been here. Evans, who grew up in Canmore, called it a "dream come true" to fly in an event he attended as a child. “I remember being a kid right here in Springbank watching my first airshow, watching the Snowbirds," he said. "To be back here is surreal, to be flying in the airshow.” Evans is one of a select group of Canadian
  
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• Pair killed in glider crash identified as instructor and student

  27-07-2019 20:52
  Two men killed in a glider crash south of Calgary have been identified as an instructor and student who were considered very capable pilots. The men have been identified as Allan Wood, 68, and Adam Leinweber, 18, both members of the Cu Nim Gliding Club. The pair was killed Friday when a glider and tow plane collided shortly after the glider was released east of the town of Black Diamond. The Transportation Safety Board confirms to CTV News Calgary the tow plane was a Cessna 182. A long-time gli
  
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• Gliding club halts operations after fatal crash south of Calgary

  27-07-2019 20:52
  The gliding club involved in a fatal crash south of Calgary on Friday is halting operations for the time being as members grieve the loss of two of their own, officials said in a statement. The Cu Nim Gliding club posted a statement on its Facebook page saying it will cease operations to “grieve the loss and celebrate the memory of two of our members that represented the best of our club.” “Soaring is a lovely sport, supported by a community of passionate, generous individuals,
  
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• 'A wonderful loving soul': Pair killed in glider crash identified as instructor and student

  27-07-2019 20:52
  Two men killed in a glider crash south of Calgary have been identified as an instructor and student who were considered very capable pilots. The men have been identified as Allan Wood, 68, and Adam Leinweber, 18, both members of the Cu Nim Gliding Club. The pair was killed Friday when a glider and tow plane collided shortly after the glider was released east of the town of Black Diamond. The Transportation Safety Board confirms to CTV News Calgary the tow plane was a Cessna 182. A long-time gli
  
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• Charges laid related to series of break-and-enters

  27-07-2019 20:34
  Two people are facing charges related to a series of break-and-enters, including some that saw items stolen from bedrooms while residents were asleep inside. Police say entry was often made to homes through open windows on the main floor and two suspects were identified through tips to the public. Justin Scott Lee, 28, of Calgary, is charged with two counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000, break-and-enter, possession of stolen property over $5,000 and failing to comply. He remains
  
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• Father who left twins in hot car says he 'blanked out'

  27-07-2019 20:31
  NEW YORK -- A New York father who left his 1-year-old twins in the car while he worked an eight-hour shift told police, "I blanked out. My babies are dead. I killed my babies," prosecutors said Saturday. Juan Rodriguez, 39, told the officers he thought he had dropped the twins off at day care before he went to his job at a Bronx hospital on Friday, according to a criminal complaint filed by the district attorney's office. "He carried on with his day," the New York Post reported that Assistant Di
  
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• Father charged in deaths of twins apparently left in car

  27-07-2019 20:31
  NEW YORK -- A father was due in court on Saturday to face criminal charges in the New York City deaths of twin babies who he apparently left alone in a parked car for hours in the summer heat while he put in a day at work. Juan Rodriguez was charged with two counts each of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, police said. Rodriguez, 39, discovered Phoenix and Mariza Rodriguez around 4 p.m. on Friday in the Bronx. The 1-year-old boy and girl were pronounced dead at the scene. Investiga
  
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• Visitors have scary close encounter with bear on bridge near Jasper

  27-07-2019 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  A college student visiting from Los Angeles captured video of a bear running across a wooden foot bridge full of people, including children.
  
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• Visitors have scary close encounter with bear on bridge in Jasper

  27-07-2019 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  A college student visiting from Los Angeles captured video of a bear running across a wooden foot bridge full of people, including children.
  
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• Police seeking white Toyota Tacoma after hit-and-run at Pearce Estates Park

  27-07-2019 19:10
  Calgary police are looking for a newer-model, white Toyota Tacoma with tinted windows and a raised suspension after a woman in her 20s was hit while walking through the parking lot at Pearce Estates Park and the driver didn’t stop. The woman was walking through the north end of the parking lot of Pearce Estates Park, in the Ingelwood-Ramsay area, about 4 p.m. when a truck turned a corner and hit her. The woman was thrown a few metres and was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police
  
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• Military to provide aircraft support to RCMP search for B.C. homicide suspects

  27-07-2019 19:01
  The Canadian Armed Forces will lend air support to the days-long manhunt in northern Manitoba for two young men suspected of three homicides in British Columbia. More coverage from CTV News VancouverMore coverage from CTV News WinnipegInteractive map and timeline of northern B.C. deathsThe Department of National Defence said the CAF will provide a Royal Canadian Air Force search and rescue CC-130H Hercules aircraft from Winnipeg to aid in the ongoing search for Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegel
  
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• Westbound Hwy. 1 backed up due to semi rollover west of Calgary

  27-07-2019 18:57
  Westbound traffic on Highway 1 was backed up significantly Saturday morning after a semi rolled near Hermitage Road, west of Calgary. The crash happened about 4 a.m. and the driver was taken to hospital by ambulance. No other vehicles were involved. Westbound traffic on Highway 1 was being detoured via Highway 1A, through Cochrane and motorists had to take the Morley road to return to Highway 1. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
  
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• Officials say search for entangled whale continues in Nova Scotia

  27-07-2019 16:53
  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a whale rescue team removed some rope from an entangled North Atlantic right whale that is moving towards Nova Scotia. The department says the Whale Release and Strandings, a non-profit organization from Newfoundland and Labrador, has been working since Wednesday to disentangle right whale number 3125. On Thursday the team cut a line of rope off the whale, but the animal remains entangled. The department says the whale is moving into waters east of Nov
  
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• RCMP going door to door in Gillam, Man., in search of information on B.C. murder suspects

  27-07-2019 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  The military has been called in to give the Mounties air support in combing the unforgiving terrain around Gillam, Man.
  
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• Canadian Forces aid search for B.C. murder suspects in Gillam, Man.

  27-07-2019 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  The military has been called in to give the Mounties air support in combing the unforgiving terrain around Gillam, Man.
  
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• 2 U.S. teens jailed in Italy in policeman's killing

  27-07-2019 14:07
  ROME -- Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of an Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. A detention order issued by prosecutors was shown on Italian state broadcaster RAI, naming the suspects as Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder. The order said they were both born in San Francisco, and according to the birth dates cited, Elder is 19 while Natale Hjorth turns 19 later this y
  
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• Indonesia's Widodo tells AP he'll push economy, labour reform - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 11:00
  Indonesia's Widodo tells AP he'll push economy, labour reform  Lethbridge News NowJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's President Joko Widodo says he is freed from political constraints in his final term and vows to push sweeping economic ...
  
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• High court allows use of Pentagon funds for border wall - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 11:00
  High court allows use of Pentagon funds for border wall  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.
  
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• MTV announces first run of films in new documentary division - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 10:03
  MTV announces first run of films in new documentary division  Lethbridge News NowNEW YORK — Films about living in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol and a St. Louis-area activist turned politician will be the first released by MTV's new ...
  
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• Missing man found safe and sound - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 09:00
  Missing man found safe and sound  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE -- ***Up-Date - LPS indicates missing man has been located. The public is thanked for all assistanc...
  
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• Liberals complain to elections commissioner about groups' co-ordination - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:56
  Liberals complain to elections commissioner about groups' co-ordination  Lethbridge News NowOTTAWA — The federal Liberals are asking the elections commissioner to look into what they allege is possible improper co-ordination between two ...
  
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• In the news today, July 26 - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:40
  In the news today, July 26  Lethbridge News NowFive stories in the news for Friday, July 26. ———. B.C. MURDER SUSPECT THOUGHT NAZI ITEMS WERE 'COOL'. A murder suspect who allegedly sent ...
  
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• Texas grand jury indicts Michigan professor on assault claim - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  Texas grand jury indicts Michigan professor on assault claim  Lethbridge News NowHOUSTON — A grand jury in Texas this week indicted a University of Michigan professor who's also a renowned opera singer on one count of sexual assault for ...
  
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• T-Mobile's $26.5B Sprint deal OKed despite competition fears - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  T-Mobile's $26.5B Sprint deal OKed despite competition fears  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON — U.S. regulators have approved T-Mobile's $26.5 billion takeover of rival Sprint, despite fears of higher prices and job cuts, in a deal that would ...
  
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• Lebanese rock band takes centre stage in freedoms debate - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  Lebanese rock band takes centre stage in freedoms debate  Lethbridge News NowBEIRUT — A popular Mideast rock band known for its rousing music and lyrics challenging norms in the conservative Arab world is once again at the centre of a ...
  
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• In the news today, July 24 - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  In the news today, July 24  Lethbridge News NowFive stories in the news for Wednesday, July 24. ———. TWO MISSING TEENS NOW SUSPECTS IN THREE B.C. DEATHS. A nationwide manhunt was on ...
  
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• 'He started giggling': Searchers rescue toddler from trench in Saskatchewan - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  'He started giggling': Searchers rescue toddler from trench in Saskatchewan  Lethbridge News NowANEROID, Sask. — A mother says her toddler is tired, a little scratched up and sunburned but otherwise fine after he spent a night in a muddy trench in ...
  
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• Evicted tenant challenges 'draconian' pot law's constitutionality - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  Evicted tenant challenges 'draconian' pot law's constitutionality  Lethbridge News NowTORONTO - A man evicted from his home and whose possessions were seized has launched a legal challenge to new ...
  
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• Deadline coming: Scientists tell environment minister to speed up conservation - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  Deadline coming: Scientists tell environment minister to speed up conservation  Lethbridge News NowSome of North America's top conservation scientists have written to the federal government urging it to s...
  
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• City of Lethbridge surveying residents on improving online services - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  City of Lethbridge surveying residents on improving online services  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – The City of Lethbridge wants to know how their online services should be improved going forward. Vicky Bennett Intelligent Community ...
  
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• Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 83 - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 83  Lethbridge News NowHAVANA - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, the former archbishop of Havana who helped organize the first ...
  
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• Alberta's oil production limits once again increasing in September - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 08:00
  Alberta's oil production limits once again increasing in September  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta has announced another raised cap on oil production.The number has r...
  
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• Swedish court documents give details on A$AP Rocky case - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 07:03
  Swedish court documents give details on A$AP Rocky case  Lethbridge News NowHELSINKI — Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two other men are charged, ...
  
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• Judge temporarily blocks new Arkansas anti-abortion laws - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 07:03
  Judge temporarily blocks new Arkansas anti-abortion laws  Lethbridge News NowLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge blocked three new abortion restrictions in Arkansas minutes before they were set to take effect Wednesday, including a ...
  
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• Gulp! Arkansas photographer snaps images of snake eating bug - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 07:03
  Gulp! Arkansas photographer snaps images of snake eating bug  Lethbridge News NowOZARK, Ark. — An amateur photographer has snapped some startling gone-in-a-gulp images of a venomous snake devouring an unlucky bug at Ozark National ...
  
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• Deaths as bomber detonates in Mogadishu mayor's office - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 07:03
  Deaths as bomber detonates in Mogadishu mayor's office  Lethbridge News NowMOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide bomber walked into the office of Mogadishu's mayor and detonated explosives strapped to his waist, killing six people and ...
  
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• It’s looking ‘less likely’ that B.C. murder suspects are still in Gillam, Man.: expert

  27-07-2019 06:14 via globalnews.ca
  "I assume they wouldn't torch that car unless they have another one available," a SFU professor told Global News Friday.
  
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• Black bear scampers by tourists on footbridge near Sunwapta Falls

  27-07-2019 06:05
  A college student visiting from California captured a surprise encounter with a black bear in Jasper National Park on Friday afternoon that startled more than a dozen park guests. Bijan Avaz, a student at UCLA, grabbed his phone and started recording when he spotted a bear near the base of a footbridge along the trail at Sunwapta Falls along the Icefields Parkway. Roughly a dozen people were on the bridge at the time of the sighting and the majority of them quickly made their way away from the b
  
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• Black bear scampers by tourists on footbridge near Athabasca Falls

  27-07-2019 06:05
  A college student visiting from California captured a surprise encounter with a black bear in Jasper National Park on Friday afternoon that startled more than a dozen park guests. Bijan Avaz, a student at UCLA, grabbed his phone and started recording when he spotted a bear near the base of a footbridge along the trail at Athabasca Falls along the Icefields Parkway. Roughly a dozen people were on the bridge at the time of the sighting and the majority of them quickly made their way away from the
  
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• 8 dead, 60 hurt as quakes shake northern Philippine isles - Lethbridge News Now

  27-07-2019 05:22
  8 dead, 60 hurt as quakes shake northern Philippine isles  Lethbridge News NowMANILA, Philippines — Two strong earthquakes hours apart struck a group of sparsely populated islands in the Luzon Strait in the northern Philippines early ...
  
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• Alberta student earns award for project examining violence in queer and non-monogamous relationships

  27-07-2019 05:17 via globalnews.ca
  Walker's project is proposing a study that would gather 15 participants to photographically document community assets and concerns around violence, safety and accountability.
  
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• MAP: Northern B.C. murder suspects may have covered 1,400 kilometres over 2 days

  27-07-2019 04:57 via globalnews.ca
  Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod were last spotted in Gillam, Man. There have been no sightings since.
  
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• Multiple explosions heard by homeowner, neighbours before Lethbridge house fire - Global News

  27-07-2019 04:29
  Multiple explosions heard by homeowner, neighbours before Lethbridge house fire  Global NewsWATCH: Multiple 911 calls made on Friday afternoon reported an explosion that is thought to be related to a house fire in north Lethbridge. Danica Ferris reports ...
  
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• Multiple explosions heard by homeowner, neighbours before Lethbridge house fire

  27-07-2019 04:29 via globalnews.ca
  Homeowner Bryan Beekman said he has lost everything, after his house went up in flames Friday afternoon.
  
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• Lethbridge team set to compete at Little League Intermediate World Series - Global News

  27-07-2019 04:27
  Lethbridge team set to compete at Little League Intermediate World Series  Global NewsThe Lethbridge Intermediate AAA Bisons may have won the Canadian Little League Championship Thursday night, but they didn't have long to celebrate.
  
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