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• Canada's funniest comic just might be in Vancouver next week

  30-05-2017 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  Canada is a nation known for funny people.
  So it’s no surprise there’s another well-stocked lineup on offer, hoping to glean Canada’s funniest person.
  SiriusXM is bringing their Top Comic competition to Vancouver next week, with a pair of shows June 6 at The Comedy Mix (7:30 and 10 p.m.) and another on June 7 at Yuk Yuk’s (8 p.m.). Doors for all three shows open an hour beforehand and tickets are $6.67 to $10.
  Thirty funny people will appear in all, ten per show. A panel
  
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• Christy Clark won’t resign as B.C. premier — yet

  30-05-2017 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  
  Christy Clark may not have enough seats to win a confidence vote, but she won’t resign without a fight. 
  Clark told reporters Tuesday she would test the confidence of the legislature rather than simply giving up her post as premier. That test will come as early as next month, she said. 
  “We have a duty to meet the house and to test its confidence. Constitutional conventions tells us that and I intend to do that in very short order,” she said. 
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• Here's what Shawn loves about the City. Tell us what you love: cnv.org/IloveMyCity #NorthVan #ILoveMyCity ❤️ https://t.co/5ZgOKV5IgQ

  30-05-2017 22:01 via twitter.com
  
  Here's what Shawn loves about the City. Tell us what you love: cnv.org/IloveMyCity #NorthVan #ILoveMyCity ❤️ https://t.co/5ZgOKV5IgQ
  
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• Crews battle large fire in North Vancouver near Capilano University ... - Globalnews.ca

  30-05-2017 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  
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  Fire crews are on scene battling flames near the Northwest Kennels on Monashee Drive, not far from Capilano University.
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• Live in collection zone #2? Delivery of your new organics & garbage carts with wheels/locking lids starts June 7.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-05-2017 21:41 via twitter.com
  Live in collection zone #2? Delivery of your new organics & garbage carts with wheels/locking lids starts June 7.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Unidentified woman's body found in Langley park by local kids

  30-05-2017 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  
  Police are asking the public to help identify a woman who was found dead in a pond in a Langley park on Monday.
  According to the Langley Times, a group of kids being guided by a teacher were on an outing in Campbell Valley Park on Monday when the discovery was made.
  Langley RCMP were called to the park just before 3 p.m. to pull the body from the water, while investigators combed the scene for evidence.Langley Schools spokesman Ken Hoff said it was a group of students and teachers on a nature wa
  
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• B.C. NDP and Greens to release details of their power-sharing deal

  30-05-2017 21:29 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan held a triumphant meeting of his MLAs at the legislature Tuesday, as his party prepares to overthrow the governing Liberals and take power with the help of the B.C. Greens.
  Horgan arrived to a standing ovation and a flurry of desk thumping as NDP MLAs and party staff crowded into the Opposition board room at the legislature to hear details of a power-sharing agreement announced Monday with the Greens.
  “Wow, what a race, what a contest,
  
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• Richmond high school on lockdown following online threat

  30-05-2017 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  
  R.A. McMath secondary school in Richmond is under lockdown this morning and RCMP are on scene in response to an unspecified threat.We are on scene at McMath Secondary investigating an unspecified threat, investigation is ongoing #RichmondBC #SD38
  — Richmond RCMP (@RichmondRCMP) May 30, 2017
  According to a message to parents posted on the McMath website, students are being kept in their first period classrooms in response to “a concerning message that was posted recently.”
  
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• Missing and murdered inquiry a sorrowful part of Canada’s history: commissioner

  30-05-2017 21:02 via vancouversun.com
  
  WHITEHORSE — Canada needs to hear the truth about the violence endured by generations of indigenous women and girls so the country has a better understanding of systemic violence, is able to find solutions and heal, says the chief commissioner of a national inquiry.
  Marion Buller said the hearings this week at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will hear stories of courage, resilience, healing, reconciliation and growth.
  “Today is a turning
  
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• Q& A: Capoeira instructor Jian Pablico talks Lululemon's This Is Yoga

  30-05-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  Yoga is for more than just fitness. At least that’s the message Lululemon is trying to disseminate with its latest campaign.
  Titled This is Yoga, the project sees the Vancouver-based activewear company partner with Vice creative agency Virtue Worldwide to “inspire” people and showcase just how diverse the range of yoga practitioners and their inspirations, can be.
  Vancouver-based Capoeira (a form of Brazilian martial arts that combines different elements of music, dance and acr
  
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• Vancouver police push app to help fight bicycle theft

  30-05-2017 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  
  Vancouver police are hoping thousands of cyclists will embrace an app they say will help reduce bicycle thefts in the city and help police return stolen bikes to their owners.
  Const. Rob Brunt said there are about 2,000 bikes stolen annually in Vancouver, about nine a day during the summer months.
  “We do a really good job of recovering bicycles, but we have no way of knowing who belongs to those bicycles,” he said, which is why hundreds of bikes are featured in the annual Vancouver p
  
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• Alberta's Notley warns B.C. NDP, Greens not to 'stand in the way' of Trans Mountain expansion

  30-05-2017 20:26 via vancouversun.com
  
  Not every one in the NDP camp is excited about British Columbia’s proposed new government.
  On Monday, the B.C. NDP and the B.C. Greens announced a historic deal in which the two parties would join together to share power, paving the way to oust Christy Clark and the Liberals, and for B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan to become premier.
  The partnership comes as a potential blow to Alberta’s pipeline dreams, as the B.C. NDP had campaigned on a promise to stop the project from going
  
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• Ready, Set, Go! It's Bike to Work Week @WeAreHub #NorthVan #BTWW #BiketoWorkWeek https://t.co/hDoxBDbI6U

  30-05-2017 20:09 via twitter.com
  
  Ready, Set, Go! It's Bike to Work Week @WeAreHub #NorthVan #BTWW #BiketoWorkWeek https://t.co/hDoxBDbI6U
  
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• Scavenger Hunt May 29 - June 8, grab your friends, download a passport & solve the clues to win prizes.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-05-2017 20:01 via twitter.com
  Scavenger Hunt May 29 - June 8, grab your friends, download a passport & solve the clues to win prizes.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Concert Announcements: Vancouver getting visits from Beck, Shaggy

  30-05-2017 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  
  Beck, the musical chameleon who started out as a Loser in 1993 and became Grammy Award winner for best album in 2015, will play the Orpheum Theatre on Aug. 24.
  Beck’s last visit was in 2014 when he played an outdoor show at Burnaby’s Deer Lake in support of his Morning Phase album.
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  Lauryn Hill and Nas to co-headline show at Pacific ColiseumTickets for Beck’s Orpheum show go on sale June 2 at 10 a.m. (pre-sale Wednesday) through Ticketmaster. Tickets range
  
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• NDP/Green partnership puts Trans Mountain pipeline, Site C dam projects in question

  30-05-2017 19:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau re-confirmed his support for Kinder Morgan Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from a stage in Rome, before British Columbia political leaders had spelled out how they might oppose the project.
  The historic “confidence and supply” agreement announced Monday by NDP Leader John Horgan and Green Leader Andrew Weaver puts big question marks over the $7.4 billion pipeline expansion, and B.C. Hydro’s $9 billion Site C dam project.
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• North Vancouver crews tackle early morning fire - North Shore News

  30-05-2017 19:08 via nsnews.com
  
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  Members of District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services put out hotspots on a fire that leveled an industrial shed in the Capilano University area early Tuesday morning. © 2017 North Shore News. Sign up for the North Shore News FREE digital ...
  Crews battle large fire in North Vancouver near Capilano UniversityGlobalnews.ca
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• Refreshments + prizes + more @ City #BTWW Celebration Station today 4-6pm @ Keith & Grand Blvd.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-05-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  Refreshments + prizes + more @ City #BTWW Celebration Station today 4-6pm @ Keith & Grand Blvd.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Driver crashes through West Vancouver drug store

  30-05-2017 17:13 via vancouversun.com
  
  A 19-year-old driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake and sent his car hurling through the front window of a drug store Monday night in West Vancouver.
  West Vancouver police say the accident happened at around 9:10 p.m. 
  The driver and his passenger both escaped injury.Luckily the Pharmasave at Park Royal mall was closed at the time of the incident and no one was inside.
  West Vancouver Const. Jeff Palmer said there was no indication that the driver was impaired.
  The driver
  
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• Daily Poll: What should be Christy Clark's next move?

  30-05-2017 17:12 via vancouversun.com
  
  On Monday, the B.C. NDP and the B.C. Greens announced a historic power-sharing deal that could spell out the end of the B.C. Liberals.
  NDP Leader John Horgan and Green Leader Andrew Weaver jointly announced Monday in Victoria the Green party would support an NDP government for the next four years.
  By picking up the Greens’ three seats, that puts the NDP one seat above the Liberals’ 43 seats and Christy Clark on the chopping block.
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• Man guilty in Vancouver Island officer’s death charged in second crash

  30-05-2017 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  
  The man who pleaded guilty in the death of West Shore RCMP Const. Sarah Beckett has been charged with impaired driving in connection with another crash.
  Kenneth Jacob Fenton is charged with causing an accident resulting in bodily harm, impaired driving causing bodily harm and flight causing bodily harm or death in connection with a serious crash on May 22, 2016, a month and a half after the crash that killed Beckett.
  On May 22, police found a green 1997 Chevy pickup truck rolled over on Goldstre
  
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• Deep dive: Top swimwear trends (and how to feel comfortable in them)

  30-05-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  Summer’s almost here — and the beach (or swimming pool) is calling. 
  The only thing standing between you and a cool, refreshing dip in the water is … a swimsuit. Cue: involuntary shudder.
  After a long, wet and very pasty winter, it’s easy to feel a bit of trepidations about the idea of stepping out in a swimsuit. Especially when faced with the seemingly endless racks of teeny, tiny bikinis on offer. 
  “It’s the most intimate garment we are asked
  
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• Kinder Morgan Canada shares fall in debut amid political uncertainty in B.C.

  30-05-2017 16:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  TORONTO — Shares in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion fell in their debut on the Toronto Stock Exchange as political uncertainty swirled around the project.
  About 15 minutes after the opening bell, the newly listed shares were trading at $15.77, down 7.24 per cent from the $17 they were priced at in their initial public offering. The first trade was for $16.25.
  The $1.75-billion IPO, one of the most widely watched public offerings in years, launched Tuesday.
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• Wolf euthanized after dogs attacked at Long Beach

  30-05-2017 15:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  A wolf that attacked two dogs on Long Beach in the Pacific Rim National Park, including one on Sunday, has been killed.
  Parks Canada said while parks staff works hard to protect animals, the wolf had to be euthanized to ensure visitors to the park are safe.
  In March, a wolf attack on a dog resulted in the closing of Wickaninnish Beach near Ucluelet and a dog ban on Long Beach. Parks staff increased monitoring efforts, issued warnings to the public and advised not taking dogs into the park.
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• Canada 150: The couples that founded Greenpeace

  30-05-2017 09:03 via vancouversun.com
  
  To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians.
  In 1970, antiwar activists Irving and Dorothy Stowe were sitting around their kitchen table brainstorming with their friends Jim and Marie Bohlen.
  The American government had announced it was going to conduct a nuclear test on Amchitka Island, off Alaska, and Marie Bohlen offered a suggestion.
  “I said casually, ‘Well, why don’t we take a boat up there?&r
  
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• Opinion: Change the voting system without a referendum

  30-05-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  
  You arrive at your neighbour’s house for a friendly game of cards, but at the door he tells you the other players have decided you will have to score twice as many points as anyone else to win the game.  It’s all above board, he tells you, because most of the players voted in favour of the rule. But is this way of making the rules fair? Of course not. No one would agree to play a game on such terms. And yet this is basically the argument from those who say that B.C. cannot
  
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• Overdose fears as B.C. grad season approaches

  30-05-2017 05:38 via vancouversun.com
  
  In the midst of B.C.’s opioid crisis, and with graduation celebrations fast approaching, some parents are calling for overdose training and naloxone kits to be widely available to teens.
  Anakana Schofield learned how to use naloxone last fall because she wanted to be able to recognize and respond if someone overdosed. Her 17-year-old son, Cúán, took an emergency medical responder course last summer, where he learned the same skills.
  This weekend, before Cúán att
  
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• Orphaned Abbotsford siblings overwhelmed by community support and outreach

  30-05-2017 05:35 via vancouversun.com
  
  Five Abbotsford orphans are feeling “relief and overwhelming gratitude” after a Postmedia story about their plight went viral over the weekend and the community rallied to help.
  Just moments after the story of the five recently orphaned Saint-Ange children was posted on The Vancouver Sun and Province websites on Saturday, the phone of family advocate Jen Macpherson started ringing. Macpherson said she was on her hands and knees with the kids, assembling the beds that Sleep Country Ca
  
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• 5 things you need to know about the NDP-Green party agreement

  30-05-2017 05:33 via vancouversun.com
  
  Who is in charge of the province right now, and what kind of political power do they have?
  Christy Clark remains premier, and will be premier until she resigns or is asked to resign by the lieutenant-governor after a non-confidence vote in the house.
  But as premier, Clark is in a weak position. If the agreement between the B.C. NDP and the B.C. Greens holds up, it means Clark won’t have enough seats to win confidence votes.
  “It might be harsh but not inaccurate to say she is, at pres
  
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• Fundraising call goes out for rescued parrots living in temporary Vancouver homes

  30-05-2017 04:37 via vancouversun.com
  
  A year ago, nearly 600 parrots who lived at a Vancouver Island refuge needed new homes. 
  In February 2016, the owner of the World Parrot Refuge in Coombs passed away. Wendy Huntbatch had devoted much of her life to caring for parrots abandoned by owners and breeders.
  The refuge stayed open until August, but as documented by former Sun columnist Pete McMartin, conditions were dire at the end. Caregivers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars nursing the sic
  
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• Future of politics in B.C. in Clark's hands — for time being, at least

  30-05-2017 04:32 via vancouversun.com
  
  A power-sharing deal may be in place between the B.C. NDP and Green parties, but what’s next in B.C. politics is in the hands of Premier Christy Clark.
  With the B.C. Liberals winning the most seats in the May 9 election, Clark remains premier. But some pundits and political watchers say her time is up. 
  “She has to decide whether to resign in light of…a credible agreement between the NDP and the Greens, or try to form government and see if she can give a speech from the t
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Pipeline politics key to Weaver weaving historic deal

  30-05-2017 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA — The word “historic” gets tossed around with abandon these days, but that was the right way to describe what unfolded Monday afternoon in the foyer outside the B.C. legislature chamber.
  The setting itself was apt: The ceremonial entrance open and the chamber beyond fully lighted, 87 desks in place, awaiting confirmation as to who would be sitting on the government side, who in Opposition.
  The first sign of where things were headed came shortly before 1 p.m. as NDP sta
  
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• Chaos and blood: Witness recalls Bacon murder scene

  30-05-2017 04:09 via vancouversun.com
  
  KELOWNA — Jennifer Hunter remembers the pandemonium she saw outside Kelowna’s Delta Grand Hotel just minutes after Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon was gunned down on Aug. 14, 2011.
  The RCMP constable testified in B.C. Supreme Court here Monday about being the first police officer to arrive at the chaotic scene.
  “There were people waving their arms. There were people everywhere. People running. People screaming,” she told Justice Allan Betton.
  Evidence at th
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Witness recalls chaos and blood at Bacon murder scene

  30-05-2017 03:53 via vancouversun.com
  
  The Crown finally began its evidence today against Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun and Michael Jones, all three of whom are charged with first-degree murder for gunning down Jonathan Bacon here in Kelowna in August 2011.
  Prosecutor Dave Ruse did a short opening statement in which he said former associates of the accused would be  testifying against them. And he noted there was DNA evidence linking all three accused to clothing discarded after the Bacon slaying.
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• B.C. development industry's metric on new townhomes for sale questioned by expert

  30-05-2017 03:01 via vancouversun.com
  
  Metro Vancouver’s inventory of newly built, family friendly, townhouses hit a record low in the first three months of 2017, according to the Urban Development Institute, which argues it’s evidence the region needs a more focused regional housing strategy.
  The UDI’s quarterly state-of-the-market report found no newly built townhouses available for sale in the City of Vancouver and just 16 townhouses across Metro Vancouver for the first months of 2017, even though new-h
  
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• No council meeting tonight. Next meeting June 12. You can access recent minutes, agendas & videos here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-05-2017 02:00 via twitter.com
  No council meeting tonight. Next meeting June 12. You can access recent minutes, agendas & videos here:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• #RoadWork: Due to mechanical issues work delayed btwn 300- 500 Blk W. Keith Rd. resuming at 6PM / completion approx… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-05-2017 00:38 via twitter.com
  #RoadWork: Due to mechanical issues work delayed btwn 300- 500 Blk W. Keith Rd. resuming at 6PM / completion approx… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Where the B.C. NDP and Greens stand on 20 hot topics

  30-05-2017 00:28 via vancouversun.com
  
  Now that the B.C. NDP and Greens have come to an agreement to form government, we remind readers where the two parties stand on 20 key issues. Below are brief summaries of some of their promises. 
   
  HOUSINGNDP: The NDP says it will build affordable housing, raising funds with a two-per-cent tax on property owned by people who pay no income tax in B.C. They would extend the current foreign buyers tax to condo pre-sales. 
  GREEN: The Greens promise tax increases t
  
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• Metro Vancouver mayors, TransLink board pitch 90-day transit action plan

  30-05-2017 00:21 via vancouversun.com
  
  Metro Vancouver’s mayors and the board of TransLink are pushing B.C.’s proposed NDP with Green support government to get the ball rolling on a 10-year regional transportation plan.
  “This region has waited long enough for provincial action on the 10-year vision,” Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who also chairs the regional mayors’ council, said in a joint statement. “Residents and businesses want to see the benefits of better transit and transportat
  
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• B.C. Election: Greens to support NDP in four-year government deal

  30-05-2017 00:17 via vancouversun.com
  
  VICTORIA – The B.C. NDP will get a chance to govern the province, and John Horgan become its new premier, after New Democrats picked up the support of the B.C. Greens Monday for a new four-year government.
  “In the end we had to make a difficult decision,” said Green Leader Andrew Weaver. “A decision we felt was in the best interest of British Columbia today and that decision was for the B.C. Greens to work with the B.C. NDP for a stable minority govern
  
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• Just another day at the office for @DNVFRS crews doing high-angle rope rescue training with Cdn Forces Search and R… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  30-05-2017 00:14 via twitter.com
  Just another day at the office for @DNVFRS crews doing high-angle rope rescue training with Cdn Forces Search and R… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Poodle found locked in suitcase, abandoned in Richmond woods

  30-05-2017 00:04 via vancouversun.com
  
  A poodle that was found locked in a suitcase and abandoned in the woods has sparked an investigation by the Richmond RCMP and B.C. SPCA cruelty investigations team.
  The dog was brought to the Richmond Animal Protection Society (RAPS) animal shelter on Sunday night by a pair of RCMP officers after it was discovered in a wooded area of Richmond by a person out for a walk.
  “It was a hard-shelled suitcase in the middle of the woods in a ditch. The suitcase was double locked &hel
  
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