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• Montfort Hospital to launch groundbreaking midwifery program

  28-04-2018 23:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some mothers who give birth at Montfort Hospital will now have the option of heading home early where they and their newborn will get house calls from a midwife.
  Funding for the first program of its kind in Canada — a hybrid of physician-assisted birth and midwife postpartum care — is part of an expansion of midwifery services across the city announced Saturday.
  Montfort’s postpartum care program after low-risk births aims to tackle complications new mothers sometimes experienc
  
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• Trump says Democrat should quit over VA nomination brouhaha. ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru… https://t.co/IrwEdm3OGR

  28-04-2018 23:08 via twitter.com
  
  Trump says Democrat should quit over VA nomination brouhaha.ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru… https://t.co/IrwEdm3OGR
  
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• RCAF CP-140 to be involved in counter-smuggling mission aimed at North Korea

  28-04-2018 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada will send a surveillance aircraft to join international efforts to counter maritime smuggling by North Korea.
  A CP-140 aircraft and 40 military personnel are assigned to a base in Kadena, Japan for the mission. The Canadian military deployment will join ongoing counter-smuggling efforts by Britain and the U.S.
  In addition, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said his country is sending a P-8 surveillance aircraft to operate with the Canadians and British at the U.S. base in Japan.
  
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• Gunmen kill 4 in northwestern Pakistan along Afghan border. ottawamatters.com/world-news/gun… https://t.co/IcGAbS7VQy

  28-04-2018 22:08 via twitter.com
  
  Gunmen kill 4 in northwestern Pakistan along Afghan border.ottawamatters.com/world-news/gun… https://t.co/IcGAbS7VQy
  
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• Flood waters on the St. John River force evacuation of some homes. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/RW5stRfLeN

  28-04-2018 21:14 via twitter.com
  
  Flood waters on the St. John River force evacuation of some homes.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/RW5stRfLeN
  
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• Sean Wu made 36 saves and Rory Graham scored the game-tying goal with 10:11 left, giving the Toronto Young National… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 20:18 via twitter.com
  Sean Wu made 36 saves and Rory Graham scored the game-tying goal with 10:11 left, giving the Toronto Young National… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man dead after vehicle travelling wrong way on highway crashes into guardrail. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  28-04-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  Man dead after vehicle travelling wrong way on highway crashes into guardrail.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Loaded, modified rifle seized in raid at West-end apartment. Guns and Gangs unit, Direct Action Response Team (DART… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 18:37 via twitter.com
  Loaded, modified rifle seized in raid at West-end apartment. Guns and Gangs unit, Direct Action Response Team (DART… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man, 20, arrested, loaded rifle seized in west end raid

  28-04-2018 18:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 20-year-old Ottawa man is under arrest after police seized a loaded, “modified” rifle in a west end raid Saturday morning.
  The joint raid by the guns and gangs unit and DART unit occurred at an apartment on Ramsey Crescent in the Forest Farm neighbourhood at about 8 a.m.
  A small quantity of unspecified drugs was also seized.
  Dylan Lepine face several charges including unauthorized possession of a firearm and failure to comply with an undertaking.
  
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• British toddler at centre of legal battle dies. ottawamatters.com/world-news/bri… https://t.co/DeTUTDLEgN

  28-04-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  
  British toddler at centre of legal battle dies.ottawamatters.com/world-news/bri… https://t.co/DeTUTDLEgN
  
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• Flood waters on the St. John River force evacuation of some homes. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  28-04-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Flood waters on the St. John River force evacuation of some homes.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Ottawa Fire Crews battle two blazes. Man suffers smoke inhalation in Vanier fire. Estimated $150,000 of damage to b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 17:23 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Fire Crews battle two blazes. Man suffers smoke inhalation in Vanier fire. Estimated $150,000 of damage to b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Deliberations resume at Nicholas Butcher's second-degree murder trial. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  28-04-2018 17:20 via twitter.com
  Deliberations resume at Nicholas Butcher's second-degree murder trial.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Man suffers smoke inhalation in Vanier fire

  28-04-2018 17:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  One man suffered mild smoke inhalation in one of two early morning fires Saturday.
  Ottawa firefighters were called to the scene at 321 Shakespeare St., near Ste. Anne Avenue, in Vanier at about 5:30 a.m.
  The fire was contained to one unit in the multi-unit structure and firefighters were able to control the blaze quickly.
  A resident was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene.
  A fire investigator is at the scene. 
  Firefighters at a fire in a vacant home on Highfield Crescent in the west e
  
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• Ottawa to get 128 new long-term care beds - CBC.ca

  28-04-2018 17:10 via cbc.ca
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  Ottawa to get 128 new long-term care beds
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  Ontario will provide funding for over 500 new long-term care beds for francophone seniors, including 128 beds for Ottawa, the province announced Friday. Revera, a long-term care services organization, will manage the new beds in partnership with ...
  
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• Azerbaijan: Site of unopened Trump-branded hotel is on fire. ottawamatters.com/world-news/aze… https://t.co/cmTMeZIt1P

  28-04-2018 17:05 via twitter.com
  
  Azerbaijan: Site of unopened Trump-branded hotel is on fire.ottawamatters.com/world-news/aze… https://t.co/cmTMeZIt1P
  
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• Authorities in Peru say the gun that killed a plant healer matches one purchased by a Canadian man who was slain in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 16:56 via twitter.com
  Authorities in Peru say the gun that killed a plant healer matches one purchased by a Canadian man who was slain in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two men stabbed in Gatineau altercation, four arrested

  28-04-2018 16:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Four men are in custody, including one from Ottawa, following the stabbing of two other men early Saturday during an altercation in the Old Hull sector.
  The victims, aged 18 and 27, were wounded in a confrontation on Leduc Street at about 2:30 a.m.
  They were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Gatineau police report.
  Police said the victims, the younger one from Mexico, the other from France, are in Canada on visitor’s visas.
  In addition to the suspect from Ottawa, the ar
  
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• Four men arrested following stabbing in Gatineau. Two victims in hospital. #Gatineau #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 15:46 via twitter.com
  Four men arrested following stabbing in Gatineau. Two victims in hospital. #Gatineau #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Yemeni security forces say they have raided a militant hideout in Yemen's south, killing a top Islamic State group… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Yemeni security forces say they have raided a militant hideout in Yemen's south, killing a top Islamic State group… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Combat photographer Charlie Beddoe was a witness to D-Day

  28-04-2018 15:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s Charlie Beddoe watched D-Day unfold on Juno Beach through the viewfinder of his film camera.
  Beddoe, then a 24-year-old combat cameraman, was in a gunboat about 500 metres from shore while bombers streaked overhead, naval guns pounded the Normandy coast, and Canadian soldiers streamed past in landing craft, bracing for their moment on history’s stage. 
  “You could see the anxious, intense look on all their faces,” Beddoe recalled in a two-hour interview with
  
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• As Canada grapples with how to achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people, a group in British Columbia has come… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 15:20 via twitter.com
  As Canada grapples with how to achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people, a group in British Columbia has come… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 2017 Quebec tornado cluster among largest recorded in Canada, researchers say. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/xCrMZFLboT

  28-04-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  
  2017 Quebec tornado cluster among largest recorded in Canada, researchers say.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/xCrMZFLboT
  
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• Documents hint at Liberal plans to add social financing to more federal spending. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/olYn8a9jDG

  28-04-2018 14:40 via twitter.com
  
  Documents hint at Liberal plans to add social financing to more federal spending.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/olYn8a9jDG
  
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• Ottawa Art Gallery opens its doors to the public - CBC.ca

  28-04-2018 14:19 via cbc.ca
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  Ottawa Art Gallery opens its doors to the public
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  Ottawa's long-awaited art gallery is finally opening its doors this weekend. The Ottawa Art Gallery is offering free admission as it opens to the public after almost three years of construction. There will also be hourly tours and other events to mark ...and more »
  
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• Weekend weather: Rain, rain go away, come back on a weekday

  28-04-2018 14:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s little chance rain will not fall this weekend, but look on the bright side with the way our spring has been going, it could be snowing. Oh wait…what? There’s snow in the forecast?
  Environment Canada is forecasting the possibility of flurries Saturday night into Sunday morning. Oh, yay!
  Saturday’s high will be 12 C, with showers and possible thunderstorms. There’s a 40 per cent chance of more rain overnight, with  a risk of flurries,  and a low of
  
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• Cappies review: Immaculata High School hilariously tackles themes like dishonesty, false identity

  28-04-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Show #16: Leading Ladies
  Where: Immaculata High School
  Director: Jillian Budgell
  Tiffany Teng, Critic
  Earl of March Secondary School
  Cleopatra and a fairy walk into the house of an ailing woman hoping to inherit her multi-million dollar fortune. However, they find out she has sufficiently recovered, and she learns that they are both costumed men. This was only one of the many jokes executed in Immaculata High School’s lively and hilarious production of Leading Ladies.
  Premiering in 2004 at
  
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• ANALYSIS: Chagall debacle casts cloud over National Gallery director Marc Mayer's future

  28-04-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Marc Mayer arrived as the director of the National Gallery of Canada in 2009 on the heels of a messy power struggle between the retiring director, Pierre Théberge, and his deputy, David Franklin.
  Mayer, a Franco-Ontarian originally from Sudbury, helped ease what had been described in court as a “toxic” environment at the gallery with his friendly, informal demeanour. He was a stark contrast to the austere and distant Théberge, who tried to fire Franklin — the pres
  
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• Today's letters: Reflecting on Toronto's tragedy

  28-04-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  April 28: Citizen readers reflect on Toronto’s week of tragedy, and on the controversy over Canadian paintings. You can write to us too, at: [email protected]
  Our guidelines are here. Thanks for writing!
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  After such tragedy, let us be kind
  Re: Toronto mourns victims of ‘nightmare’ van attack, April 24. 
  Human beings are unpredictable. The human mind is a universe in itself, and it has more hidden areas in it than the Grand Canyon. These sort of senseless att
  
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• Can't fly like an eagle: Injured raptor saved from the slush on Manitoba lake. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/orb0tv5yYN

  28-04-2018 12:30 via twitter.com
  
  Can't fly like an eagle: Injured raptor saved from the slush on Manitoba lake.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/orb0tv5yYN
  
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• One year later, Constance Bay still dealing with, learning from historic Ottawa River flood. #ottnews #ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  One year later, Constance Bay still dealing with, learning from historic Ottawa River flood. #ottnews #ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Brian Doyle's Up to Low touches down at NAC

  28-04-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you see Brian Doyle in tears when Up To Low opens next week, don’t be alarmed.The Chelsea, Que.-based author, who’s in his 80s, wrote the original 1982 novel that was turned into a play by director Janet Irwin a few years ago, and is about to be remounted at the National Arts Centre. The story is based on a tale Doyle recalls from his childhood.“I’m just so charmed by it. I’m almost haunted,” Doyle said in a recent interview, referring to Irwin’s adap
  
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• New testosterone rules for athletes discriminatory, Ottawa group says - CBC.ca

  28-04-2018 11:04 via cbc.ca
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  New testosterone rules for athletes discriminatory, Ottawa group says
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  New rules that would prevent female athletes with high natural testosterone levels from running middle-distance races for women are discriminatory, says an Ottawa-based sports and ethics organization. Starting Nov. 1, the International Association of ...and more »
  
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• How tall is the London Eye? Who opened Britain's first Indian restaurant? Who was the fifth wife of Henry VIII? If… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 11:00 via twitter.com
  How tall is the London Eye? Who opened Britain's first Indian restaurant? Who was the fifth wife of Henry VIII? If… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa Centre MPP joins turf war over soccer pitch - CBC.ca

  28-04-2018 10:02 via cbc.ca
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  Ottawa Centre MPP joins turf war over soccer pitch
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  The turf war over an artificial soccer field planned for Immaculata High School is heating up, with neighbours pondering legal action to stop it and now the local MPP and city councillor trying to intervene. In a letter sent to the school Thursday ...
  
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• Romania's president calls on premier to resign; she refuses. ottawamatters.com/world-news/rom… https://t.co/L5EJK3pQUx

  28-04-2018 10:00 via twitter.com
  
  Romania's president calls on premier to resign; she refuses.ottawamatters.com/world-news/rom… https://t.co/L5EJK3pQUx
  
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• Not much time for Reds to get over CCL heartbreak begin rescue of MLS season. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  28-04-2018 09:00 via twitter.com
  Not much time for Reds to get over CCL heartbreak begin rescue of MLS season.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• NAFTA: Ministers head home from negotiations, with uncertainty looming. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/4qEtqKEhhU

  28-04-2018 08:00 via twitter.com
  
  NAFTA: Ministers head home from negotiations, with uncertainty looming.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/4qEtqKEhhU
  
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• Trudeau urged to press G7 leaders for $1.3 billion for girls' education. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/cldvZQ4aqz

  28-04-2018 07:00 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau urged to press G7 leaders for $1.3 billion for girls' education.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/cldvZQ4aqz
  
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• Sailboat captain jailed 13 years for smuggling cocaine into Nova Scotia. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/9SW6ZWgj2K

  28-04-2018 06:00 via twitter.com
  
  Sailboat captain jailed 13 years for smuggling cocaine into Nova Scotia.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/9SW6ZWgj2K
  
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• Selected oilsands projects may avoid new environmental assessment rules. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/h5RqTtQ0Dz

  28-04-2018 05:30 via twitter.com
  
  Selected oilsands projects may avoid new environmental assessment rules.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/h5RqTtQ0Dz
  
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• Due to water system malfunction, 12 trucks required to put out blaze in Gatineau

  28-04-2018 05:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  What should have been a routine fire call turned into a 12-truck affair in east Gatineau on Friday evening.
  A breakdown of the water system meant that Gatineau fire needed 30 firefighters and 12 trucks to supply water to extinguish a house fire at 176 Garnier, a two-storey house and apartment. The fire started in the kitchen.
  The lone occupant, an elderly man, was not injured but received care from the Red Cross.
  The fire started at 5:20 and was under control in about 45 minutes but close to two
  
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• James Cameron's new series looks at how sci-fi became 'an alternate religion.' ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/5orSajxmcj

  28-04-2018 05:00 via twitter.com
  
  James Cameron's new series looks at how sci-fi became 'an alternate religion.'ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/5orSajxmcj
  
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• Eastern Ont. man charged with making indecent calls across Canada and U.S. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  28-04-2018 04:30 via twitter.com
  Eastern Ont. man charged with making indecent calls across Canada and U.S.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• New 'Avengers' film nabs 4th biggest preview gross ever. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  28-04-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
  New 'Avengers' film nabs 4th biggest preview gross ever.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Melinda Karlsson's emotional Instagram post on death of son

  28-04-2018 03:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Melinda Karlsson took to Instagram Friday to express her feelings about the death of her son last month.
  “It’s taken me a while to reflect and collect my thoughts, but I finally feel strong enough to share them,” Melinda said.
  Melinda and her husband, Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson, lost their child on March 20. She was due to give birth in April. Karlsson missed several games toward the end of the season as the couple grieved.
  “Thank you to all the people show sho
  
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• Temple University, where Bill Cosby long served as a leading public face and key fundraiser, said Friday it will re… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 03:40 via twitter.com
  Temple University, where Bill Cosby long served as a leading public face and key fundraiser, said Friday it will re… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Judge agrees to delay Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump. ottawamatters.com/world-news/jud… https://t.co/5uFUgVohEl

  28-04-2018 03:20 via twitter.com
  
  Judge agrees to delay Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump.ottawamatters.com/world-news/jud… https://t.co/5uFUgVohEl
  
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• Dewar thanks Ottawa community for support during cancer journey

  28-04-2018 03:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Former MP Paul Dewar said in public Friday evening what he has expressed on social media, that he is overwhelmed by the support he has received during his cancer treatment.
  “I’m doing well, very well,” said Dewar, speaking to reporters outside the Southminster United Church in the Glebe, where he was a guest speaker at the Ottawa Grassroots Festival.
  “It’s like everyone who has been through cancer,” said Dewar, accompanied by his wife, Julia Sneyd. &ldquo
  
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• The genealogy website used to find the man accused of being California's Golden State Killer had no idea its databa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-04-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  The genealogy website used to find the man accused of being California's Golden State Killer had no idea its databa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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