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• 3 family members killed in California sea cliff collapse

  03-08-2019 23:53
  ENCINITAS, Calif. -- Three women killed when a Southern California sea cliff collapsed were members of a family gathered on a beach to celebrate one of them having survived breast cancer, authorities and relatives said Saturday. Anne Clave, 35, and her mother, Julie Davis, 65, died at hospitals after tons of sandstone were unleashed Friday at Grandview Beach, the San Diego County Medical Examiner said. A family email obtained Saturday by KNSD-TV identified the third victim as Elizabeth Cox, Clav
  
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• Train derailment triggers evacuation in southern Alberta

  03-08-2019 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  Hundreds of people in southern Alberta are back home after being ordered out Friday due to a CP train derailment. As Adam MacVicar reports, there were concerns about the dangerous cargo the train was carrying.
  
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• Young boy allegedly pricked by discarded needle in Lethbridge park - CTV News

  03-08-2019 22:50 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  Young boy allegedly pricked by discarded needle in Lethbridge park  CTV NewsA Lethbridge mother is sounding the alarm after she claims her son was stuck but a discarded needle while he was playing at a public park earlier this week.
  
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• Young boy allegedly pricked by discarded needle in Lethbridge park

  03-08-2019 22:50
  A Lethbridge mother is sounding the alarm after she claims her son was stuck but a discarded needle while he was playing at a public park earlier this week. Janessa Fyfe says she was at Sequoia Park with her husband and kids when her six-year-old son Jarom was hurt by a needle left behind in the grass. The boy was apparently crawling along the ground, following a spider when he went into the bushes and was pricked by a syringe. "We took him to a doctor and, sure enough, a little mark was there,"
  
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• Grapefruit-sized hail hammered Spruce Grove as thunderstorm swept across Edmonton region Friday

  03-08-2019 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Canada said the largest hail was reported west of the city in Spruce Grove, where teacup- to grapefruit-sized hail measuring 80 to 102 mm was reported.
  
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• Rescuers find body of pilot diverted by weather over northwestern Quebec

  03-08-2019 21:32
  MONTREAL - The Royal Canadian Air Force says the body of a pilot has been found amid plane wreckage in dense forest in northwestern Quebec. The air force says it located the missing Beechcraft Bonanza airplane around 7 p.m. Friday in Quebec's Val d'Or region, about 525 kilometres northwest of Montreal. The aircraft was reported overdue July 29. It was travelling from Oshkosh, Wis., to Danbury, Conn., but the pilot had to divert north to avoid a storm. Capt. Trevor Reid says the air force, provin
  
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• Tennis ball-size hailstones pelt Edmonton during tornado watch

  03-08-2019 20:45
  Edmonton was pelted by massive hailstones Friday night while the city was under a tornado watch. Weather alerts were issued that evening, but there were no confirmed reports of a tornado forming. Fierce showers of huge hail were reported across the city, with many Edmontonians taking to Twitter to show pictures of the supersized ice balls. Many used coins, fruit, golf balls, tennis balls and baseballs for scale. “We have never seen hail this big in our lives. It was massive and even dug up
  
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• Texas shooting: At least 1 dead, 22 injured in El Paso

  03-08-2019 20:38
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- At least one person was killed, 22 others were seriously injured and "a white male in his 20s" was in custody after a shooting Saturday at a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, hospital officials and police said. Speaking to reporters, El Paso police Sgt. Robert Gomez said there likely would be more deaths to report later, but he could not yet confirm them. He said most of the shootings happened at a Walmart at the shopping complex and that the store wa
  
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• Attack on Texas shoppers to be handled as domestic terrorism

  03-08-2019 20:38
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- The shooting that killed 20 people at a crowded El Paso shopping area will be handled as a domestic terrorism case, federal authorities said Sunday as they weighed hate-crime charges against the gunman that could carry the death penalty. A local prosecutor announced that he would bring capital murder charges against the suspect, saying the assailant "lost the right to be among us." The attack on Saturday morning was followed less than a day later by another shooting that c
  
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• 20 dead, more wounded after gunman attacks Texas shoppers

  03-08-2019 20:38
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. Hours later, there was another mass shooting across the country. Police in Dayton, Ohio, said nine people were killed by a shooter who was shot to death by responding officers. Authorities are investigating the possibility the Saturday shooting in El Paso was a hate crime
  
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• 20 dead, 26 wounded in El Paso, Texas shooting

  03-08-2019 20:38
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, the state's governor said. Meanwhile, the police chief said among the possibilities being investigated is whether it was a hate crime. Two law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity identified the suspect taken into custody as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius of the Dallas area. Police said anoth
  
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• Government lifts speed restrictions after spotting no whales in shipping lanes

  03-08-2019 20:08
  OTTAWA -- The federal government has lifted speed restrictions meant to protect North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after finding that the policy may have been pushing ships closer to the endangered mammals. There weren't any whales in the shipping lanes where speed had been reduced, Transport Canada announced Friday, adding that the lower speed limit had driven cargo ships out of the lanes so they could take more driect routes through areas where the animals are known to gat
  
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• Sign of the season: Taber corn once again on sale in Alberta

  03-08-2019 20:04
  One of the famous staples of southern Alberta is available for sale again starting this weekend. Be on the lookout for kiosks opening in your community that's been stocked up with the yellow vegetable, certified grown in the farming community of Taber. Sellers have already been on the streets in the City of Lethbridge and say business has been brisk so far. They're also excited for the increase in business in the next few months. "I think it's been going good. They have enough and they get it to
  
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• 'Shocked and saddened': Long-term Calgary MP Deepak Obhrai dies of cancer

  03-08-2019 19:06
  The Conservative MP for Calgary Forest Lawn, Deepak Obhrai, passed away Friday night after a brief and aggressive battle with liver cancer. A press release says he died peacefully in Calgary while surrounded by his family, after being diagnosed a few weeks prior with stage 4 liver cancer. He was 69. A family statement says 'we are still shocked and saddened by his sudden departure.' Books of condolence can be available to sign at his Calgary constituency office. More to come.
  
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• Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai dies of liver cancer

  03-08-2019 18:33 via globalnews.ca
  A statement said he passed away surrounded by family on Friday night.
  
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• Smoke from Siberian forest fires has crossed the Bering Sea to Canada

  03-08-2019 18:08
  NASA has tracked smoke from a multitude of Siberian forest fires that has crossed the Bering Sea to Canada. The total area of the Siberian blazes increased on Friday to about 31,000 square kilometres, according to Avialessokhrana, Russia's aerial forest protection service. "The smoke from the Siberian fires can now be seen stretching across eastern Russia, into Alaska, down the west coast of Canada and, then, over Vancouver and Seattle," said Colin Seftor, atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard
  
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• U.K. emergency workers race to cut water levels at damaged dam

  03-08-2019 17:28
  LONDON -- Emergency workers raced Saturday to lower water levels behind a damaged dam in northwest England as forecasters warned more bad weather is on the way. Pumps have reduced the water level in Toddbrook Reservoir by half a meter (20 inches) since Thursday, but authorities warn that pressure on the 180-year-old dam remains severe. A Royal Air Force helicopter continued precision drops of sandbags into a gaping hole on the dam, while specialist contractors placed concrete grouting around the
  
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• Italian police arrest 6 in nightclub stampede that killed 6

  03-08-2019 17:10
  MILAN -- Italian police on Saturday arrested six men on manslaughter charges for allegedly using pepper spray to carry out thefts at a concert for teens, triggering a stampede that killed six people at a venue near the Adriatic coastal city of Ancona last year. The tragedy last December killed five teens, ranging in age from 14 to 16, along with a 39-year-old mother accompanying her daughter to a concert by a popular Italian singer, Sfera Ebbasta, whose late arrival accounted for the presence of
  
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• Hundreds detained at latest political protest in Moscow

  03-08-2019 16:52
  MOSCOW -- Police cracked down hard on an unsanctioned demonstration in Moscow for a second weekend in a row, detaining about 600 people protesting the exclusion of some independent and opposition candidates from September city council elections. The issue taps growing dissatisfaction with a political environment dominated by the Kremlin-aligned United Russia party, in which dissenting voices are marginalized, ignored or repressed. An arrest-monitoring group, OVD-Info, said 685 people were detain
  
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• Hong Kong protests turn violent after Chinese flag tossed into iconic harbour

  03-08-2019 15:07
  HONG KONG -- Protesters and authorities clashed in Hong Kong again on Saturday, as demonstrators removed a Chinese national flag from its pole and flung it into the city's iconic Victoria Harbour and police fired tear gas after some protesters vandalized a police station. The scene was all too familiar in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory, which has been wracked by pro-democracy protests for nearly two months. Since the rallies began, protesters have vandalized buildings and thrown bricks, w
  
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• Ontario SIU investigating after man sets self on fire outside immigration centre

  03-08-2019 14:04
  LONDON, Ont. - Ontario's police watchdog says it's investigating an incident in London, Ont., where a man set himself on fire during a confrontation with police early Friday afternoon. The Special Investigations Unit says officers responded to a 911 call about a man in distress outside the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada office on Exeter Road around 1 p.m. The SIU says the officers tried to talk to the man, who was threatening to harm himself. The agency says the situation escalated
  
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• OPP probing tips from across the province on possible location of B.C. murder suspects

  03-08-2019 13:54 via globalnews.ca
  The O-P-P have assigned a team to look into a spike in tips and are working with the R-C-M-P as they probe incoming reports.
  
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• Edmonton police apologize for ‘unacceptable’ wait for urgent 911 call

  03-08-2019 08:09 via globalnews.ca
  The Edmonton Police Service is apologizing, saying there were multiple communication breakdowns that resulted in an assault victim not getting help in a reasonable amount of time recently. 
  
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• Train derailment forces evacuation of Irvine, Alberta

  03-08-2019 07:26 via globalnews.ca
  Residents of a hamlet in southeastern Alberta spent part of Friday afternoon and evening under an evacuation order after a train derailment east of Medicine Hat. Danica Ferris reports.
  
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• Global News at 5 Lethbridge: Aug 2

  03-08-2019 07:15 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, August 2, 2019 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge hosted by Quinn Campbell.
  
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• Missing Claresholm woman believed to be in Whistler, B.C. - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 06:30 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Missing Claresholm woman believed to be in Whistler, B.C.  Lethbridge News NowClaresholm, AB - Alberta RCMP are providing an update on a missing person's case from last month.29-year-old C...
  
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• Hail pelts Edmonton as storm moves through

  03-08-2019 05:46 via globalnews.ca
  Hail pelted the Edmonton region on Friday night as a storm system moved through the area.
  
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• Man throws 155 km/h pitch in viral video – and is signed to the Oakland A's

  03-08-2019 02:00
  It’s the success story aspiring pitchers dreams of when they step into the speed pitch box at a baseball game. Nathan Patterson dazzled the internet two weeks ago when his brother posted a video of him whipping out a fastball that hit 96 miles per hour (almost 155 kilometres per hour) in a speed pitch challenge at Coors Field while at a Colarado Rockies game. Now, he’s been signed by the Oakland Athletics. “Guys, we were just chillin at a @rockies baseball game, and my brother
  
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• Okotoks tiny homes development faces hurdle following petition

  03-08-2019 01:34
  The approval and implementation of an affordable homes project in Okotoks has been cast in doubt following the submission of a petition to town council. Garnering 3,200 signatures, or over 10 per cent of the population, the petition was filed by the Okotoks Ratepayers Community Group. It calls for council to eliminate the taxpayer-funded portion of the project and retract the agreement to build on public land. In order to be considered valid, the petition required 2,900 signatures. The conceptua
  
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• Town of Irvine being evacuated due to train derailment - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 01:21 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Town of Irvine being evacuated due to train derailment  Lethbridge News NowIRVINE, AB — The residents of Irvine are being evacuated from the town following a train derailment shortly after 3:00 Friday (Aug 2) afternoon.
  
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• Train derailment prompts mandatory evacuation alert in Cypress County, Alberta

  03-08-2019 01:00 via globalnews.ca
  In photos sent from witnesses, several cars can be seen off the rails and on their sides along the side of the highway. 
  
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• Evacuation order lifted in Cypress County, Alberta following train derailment

  03-08-2019 01:00 via globalnews.ca
  A train derailment prompted an immediate evacuation order for residents of Cypress County in the area of the hamlet of Irvine, Alta., on Friday afternoon. Shortly after 11 p.m., emergency officials said residents could return to their homes.
  
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• Lethbridge post-secondary institutions in process of creating free speech policies - Global News

  03-08-2019 00:56 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge post-secondary institutions in process of creating free speech policies  Global NewsPost-secondary institutions in Lethbridge are working towards creating freedom of speech policies that the UCP government requires to be completed by ...
  
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• Lethbridge post-secondary institutions in process of creating free speech policies

  03-08-2019 00:56 via globalnews.ca
  Post-secondary institutions in Lethbridge are working towards creating freedom of speech policies that the UCP government requires to be completed by December.
  
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• Pulling it together: Canadian armwrestling champ reaches for the top

  03-08-2019 00:54
  A Canmore woman is getting ready to take on the best from around the globe at the World Armwrestling Championships in Romania later this year. Annie Beals is a national champion in armwrestling and hopes to grab the world's attention this fall. Beals, 32, only took up the sport three years ago. "A friend of mine suggested that he thought that I would be good at this sport, so he took a year or two to persuade me to finally enter tournaments," said Beals. Beals has pulled herself to the top of th
  
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• Lethbridge’s Diversion Outreach Team expands its services - Global News

  03-08-2019 00:51 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge’s Diversion Outreach Team expands its services  Global NewsLethbridge's diversion outreach team is extending its *service* hours and adding another vehicle to provide transportation to those at risk and vulnerable.
  
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• Lethbridge’s Diversion Outreach Team expands its services

  03-08-2019 00:51 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge's diversion outreach team is extending its service hours and adding another vehicle to provide transportation to those at risk and vulnerable.
  
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• Emily Zhu wins Canadian Junior Girls Championship at Lethbridge Country Club - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:25 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Emily Zhu wins Canadian Junior Girls Championship at Lethbridge Country Club  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB - A winner has been crowned at a prestigious golf tournament held in Lethbridge this week.After...
  
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• Trump pick for national intelligence director is withdrawing - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Trump pick for national intelligence director is withdrawing  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his pick for national intelligence director has decided to withdraw f...
  
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• Towering Broadway director and producer Hal Prince has died - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Towering Broadway director and producer Hal Prince has died  Lethbridge News NowNEW YORK — Harold Prince, a Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theatre with such groundbreaking shows as “The ...
  
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• Survey: Businesses added 156000 jobs in July - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Survey: Businesses added 156000 jobs in July  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON — U.S. companies added a healthy 156,000 jobs in July with larger firms accounted for much of the gains, a private survey found.
  
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• Montreal Impact look for another strong performance in Colorado - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Montreal Impact look for another strong performance in Colorado  Lethbridge News NowMONTREAL - Impact coach Remi Garde saw something special in his team last week when Montreal recorded its bigg...
  
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• Lethbridge's Diversion Outreach Team expands, allowing first responders to focus more on emergencies - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge's Diversion Outreach Team expands, allowing first responders to focus more on emergencies  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – You can expect to see members of the Diversion Outreach Team (DOT) on the streets of Lethbridge more often. They have added a second ...
  
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• It`s ready – Taber Corn has arrived at local kiosks - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  It`s ready – Taber Corn has arrived at local kiosks  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE — How popular is Taber Corn? It`s so popular that potential customers are known to stalk (no pun intended) the corn trucks as they make their ...
  
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• 'Incredible players': Sweden's Raymond, Holtz ready for big season - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  'Incredible players': Sweden's Raymond, Holtz ready for big season  Lethbridge News NowPLYMOUTH, Mich. — Lucas Raymond took a pass, cut to the middle and roofed his third goal of the game to send Sweden into a euphoria. Somewhere in the ...
  
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• In the news today, July 31 - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  In the news today, July 31  Lethbridge News NowSix stories in the news for Wednesday, July 31. ———. NO 5G DECISION BEFORE ELECTION: GOODALE. Canadians will have to wait until after this fall's ...
  
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• In the news today, August 2 - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  In the news today, August 2  Lethbridge News NowFive stories in the news for Friday, August 2. ———. TORIES WOULD SEEK SAUDI RE-ENGAGEMENT. A Conservative government, if elected this fall, would ...
  
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• Eighth and final 'Homeland' season to debut February 2020 - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Eighth and final 'Homeland' season to debut February 2020  Lethbridge News NowBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Showtime says the eighth and final season of "Homeland" will debut in early 2020. The ...
  
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• Case of Markham homicides suspect put over to next week - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Case of Markham homicides suspect put over to next week  Lethbridge News NowNEWMARKET, Ont. - The case of a man accused in an alleged quadruple homicide north of Toronto has been put ove...
  
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• Ariana Grande returns to acting roots in “Kidding” - Lethbridge News Now

  03-08-2019 00:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Ariana Grande returns to acting roots in “Kidding”  Lethbridge News NowBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Ariana Grande returns to her acting roots with an appearance in Jim Carrey's series "K...
  
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