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'The Serpent' held in death of Canadian *
Killer who spent 20 years in Indian jail charged in 1975 slaying of Manitoba man
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16 killed in Brazilian rocket blast *
A rocket exploded on its launch pad Friday while undergoing final pre-launch tests, killing at least 16 people, officials said.
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A story of intrigue from A to Z *
Two Montreal men have been at the centre of allegations of arms deals, an African coup plot and business double-crosses. Now, one of them is on the lam from U.S. authorities. COLIN FREEZE reports
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Abducted kids in botched home invasion escape car trunk *
Two cool-headed children were locked in the trunk of a stolen car when they were kidnapped during a botched home invasion, but they managed to escape and helped put the police on the path of their abductors, RCMP say.
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Accused sex predator faces 10 new charges *
Ten new charges were laid Thursday against a Vancouver man accused in connection with a series of sadistic sexual attacks against local sex trade workers and children in Asia.
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Actress may have killed herself *
An actress killed at music producer Phil Spector's home was shot with a gun inside her mouth and had gunshot residue on both hands, indicating she may have fired the weapon, according to a coroner's report obtained by The Associated Press.
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Afghan singer killed in swarming *
Popular Afghan pop star Nasrat Parsa died Sunday after being swarmed on the street outside his hotel following a performance at a downtown Vancouver theatre, police said Monday.
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Alleged hoaxer turns herself in *
Ever since Donna Lynette Walker was a child, friends said, she has delighted in disrupting the lives of those around her.
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Alleged stalker sues Britney Spears *
A Japanese businessman ordered to stay away from pop idol Britney Spears has sued the singer, saying her security guards pointed a gun at him and caused "extreme emotional distress."
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Another Hoffa tip, another dead end *
Murderer's information turns up zilch
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Armed bandits rob tourists, kill gardener in Jamaica *
Bandits armed with guns and machetes robbed six tourists, including a Canadian woman, and killed a gardener at a resort town in western Jamaica, police and the resort's manager said Friday.
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Arrest made in Cecilia killing *
Police have charged a man with first degree murder in connection with the death of nine-year-old Cecilia Zhang Thursday, four months after the remains of the little girl were found in a wooded area just outside Toronto.
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Austria kidnap girl's first interview *
Repeatedly shutting her eyes against the glare of TV cameras, the Austrian teenager imprisoned for eight-and-a-half years described in a nationally broadcast interview Wednesday the horror of being locked into her dark underground cell for the first time.
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B.C. fatality sparks drunk-driving debate *
Parents mull how to protect their teens after daughter's birthday turns tragic
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BC men who dug drug tunnel to U.S. sentenced *
The architects of an elaborate scheme to smuggle drugs into the U.S. through a 360-foot tunnel beneath the Canadian border received nine-year prison sentences today, the maximum allowable under federal guidelines.
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BC murder suspect walks free in China *
A jurisdictional battle between Canada and China is allowing a man accused of murder to walk free on the streets of his homeland, seven months after the remains of his girlfriend were found in a British Columbia lake.
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Belgian pedophile convicted *
Marc Dutroux's trial in notorious child rape-murder case horrified country for nearly a decade.
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Belgian pedophile gets life *
Marc Dutroux was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for a spate of child abductions, rapes and murders that horrified Belgium and led to major police and judicial reforms.
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Bizarre drama caps hunt for fugitive heir *
Rapist, bounty hunters and Fox-TV crew wind up behind bars in Puerto Vallarta
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Blaine Peace Arch Port of Entry shooting incident *
The mystery of why Peace Arch border crossing was closed for some eight hours on Tuesday was revealed yesterday, when border authorities released information about the incident.
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Blasts hit London again, 2 weeks after train bombs *
Four small coordinated explosions hit London's bus and underground train network on Thursday, injuring one person, exactly two weeks after bombers killed more than 50 people in the British capital.
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British arrest 21 in slaying of boy *
Mutilation of corpse pulled from Thames in 2001 indicates ritual killing, police say
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By the time I get to Phoenix, I'll be arrested *
Country singer Glen Campbell, whose hits included Rhinestone Cowboy, struck another car while driving drunk and left the scene, then kneed a police officer while demanding to see the police chief, authorities said yesterday.
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California man arrested in SUV arsons *
Federal agents arrested a 25-year-old peace and environmental activist in connection with arson fires and vandalism that did $1-million (U.S.) in damage to a Hummer dealership
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Canada's spam king apologizes *
Canadian man accused of being one of the biggest spammers in the world by Yahoo Inc. has agreed to stop sending unwanted e-mails and plans to help educate children about the dangers of the Internet
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Canadian / Pacific Northwest actor charged with rape *
Scott Hamilton Bairstow, a TV and movie actor who grew up in Steinbach, Man., has been charged with having sex with a 12-year-old in 1998.
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Countdown to Karla Homolka release begins *
With 45 days to go in Karla Homolka's countdown to freedom, news organizations have snapped up every apartment with a view of the Joliette prison yard. Photographers periodically congregate on nearby rooftops, hoping for a shot of her pouty face and incongruous halo of blond tresses.
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Criminal charges for Enron's Lay *
Two-and-half years after Enron Corp.'s collapse unleashed a wave of corporate scandals, U.S. prosecutors have indicted Kenneth Lay, the energy trader's founder, chairman and chief executive officer.
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Danton sentenced to 7½ years *
Former NHL tough guy Mike Danton was sentenced Monday to 71/2 years in prison for trying to have his agent killed.
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Death-row inmate captured outside liquor store *
A convicted double-murderer who spent three days on the run after slipping away from a Houston jail was recaptured some 322 kilometres away — drunk and talking on a pay phone.
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Define irony: Former Sopranos actor faces real-life murder charges *
An actor who once played an aspiring mobster on The Sopranos faces murder charges along with another man in the death of an off-duty police officer, authorities said Sunday.
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Extremely annoying beer-commercial actor faces child porn charge *
A 40-year-old Toronto comic better known as the obnoxious Scot who berates bartenders and pub patrons in television commercials for Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale has been charged with possessing child pornography and making it available over the Internet.
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French serial killer leads police to bodies *
As a helicopter clattered overhead and police swarmed around, a serene and bespectacled 62-year-old Frenchman in a bulletproof vest led detectives through the woods surrounding a stately 18th century château.
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John Lennon: A personal reminiscence *
On the 25th anniversary of his untimely death:
John Lennon was our conscience. He embodied the spirit of our belief in candour, in accountability, in someone standing up for what is right, simply because it is right.
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Karla Homolka says she's not dangerous and doesn't want to be hunted down *
Convicted killer Karla Homolka had only just slipped out of her "prison of stone" Monday when she appeared on television to profess penitence for her unspeakable past and to assure Canadians she's not the monster she's been made out to be.
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Karla movie gets 18A rating in Ontario *
Ontario is the first province to classify a Hollywood movie about infamous convicted killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo that is to be released in Canadian theatres next Friday.
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Karla's psychiatric report released *
Karla Homolka saw Québec as “a separate country” where it would be easy to blend in after her release from prison for helping to kill two Ontario schoolgirls, court documents say.
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Massive shark devours 77-year-old *
A great white shark estimated to be at least five metres long attacked and killed an elderly South African woman Monday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said.
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Molecular eyewitness: DNA profiling under fire *
Controversial crime-scene test smacks of racial profiling, critics say, yet Canadian law-keepers are already using new DNA techniques.
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Murder rate lowest since 1967 *
Canada's murder rate dropped last year to lows not seen since the year Expo '67 gripped the country's imagination, says a new study of the country's crime rate.
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No survivors in wreckage of WWF helicopter *
Rescuers said there were no survivors in the wreckage of a helicopter found two days after it disappeared while carrying a Canadian conservationist and 23 other people, including Nepal's forestry minister.
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Noodle house shooting victim identified *
One dead, several wounded in Vancouver shooting; Evan Edgar Garber, no relation to evalu8.org's Anne Garber.
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Ontario wants limits on Homolka release *
Karla Homolka is on the verge of completing the last of a 12-year sentence she received after striking a bargain on charges related to the sex assaults and slayings of schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.
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Passengers and crew survive Air France crash in Toronto *
All passengers and crew -- some 309 persons -- on board an Air France plane that burst into flames after overshooting a runway at Pearson International are said to have survived.
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Police arrest three in Canada-US drug tunnel raid *
Three people have been arrested after police raided a sophisticated tunnel intended to smuggle drugs under the U.S.-Canada border between BC and Washington state, police said on Thursday.
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Prison Grey is the New Black: Conrad Black is found guilty *
Has this man no friends or allies? It seems that everyone is crowing as "Tubby" Black goes down. No less respected organ than The Times of London used the word "swindler;" the lofty Guardian even headlined: "For all his wealth and influence, the fallen media mogul Conrad Black is little more than a common thief. . . ."
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Sharpe sentenced to two years *
Man who challenged Canada's child porn laws in the Supreme Court receives sentence for indecent assault on boy.
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So-called 'Botmaster' admits infecting 250,000 computers *
Security consultant admits to hijacking PCs to use in crimes.
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Statement from Cecilia's parents *
Statement released by Cecila Zhang's parents, Raymond Zhang and Sherry Xu, on Thursday, after the announcement of the arrest of 21-year-old Min Chen in connection with the nine-year-old's death.
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Suspect in BC kidnapping was questioned in 2005 murder *
Accused in recent abduction of 11-year-old girl in Armstrong, BC.
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Suspected JonBenet Ramsey killer arrives in U.S. *
John Mark Karr, the suspect in the killing of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, arrived late Sunday after a 15-hour flight from Thailand on which he sipped champagne, dined on fried king prawns and roast duck, and exchanged what he described as "small talk" with law enforcement escorts.
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Swiss banks, Holocaust survivors reach accord *
After years of acrimony, Swiss banks have agreed to release records of thousands of Second World War-era accounts that may belong to victims of the Nazis.
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The case of the stalker and the masterpieces *
It has become clear by now that the reasons behind the brazen theft of two Edvard Munch paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo were probably psychological rather than commercial. . .
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Tories will arm guards at border, high-ranking MP says *
Two days after murder suspects from California made a run for the Peace Arch border crossing before being stopped in a shootout on the U.S. side, Conservative justice critic Vic Toews said his party will stand behind its promise to give Canada's border guards guns.
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Trio slain on Sam Donaldson's ranch *
The 14-year-old son of the manager of ABC newsman Sam Donaldson's New Mexico ranch was arrested Wednesday on charges of murdering his father, stepmother and stepsister, authorities said.
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Vancouver's i.t. Productions Targeted by Thieves *
Yikes! Talk about corporate sabotage: Theft took place just one week before the radio station was set to launch.
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Vancouver's Trees of Mystery *
Rumours swirled about what might have happened, and the intrigue only deepened on Friday when police arrived at the $1.7-million condominium of June Matheson. . .
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Belgian pipeline blast kills 10 *
Firemen investigating leak in natural-gas pipe among confirmed dead; 200 other people injured.
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Feds Bust U.S.-Canada Smuggling Tunnel *
Federal agents have shut down an elaborate, 360-foot drug-smuggling tunnel dug underneath the U.S.-Canadian border -- the first such passageway discovered along the nation's northern edge, officials said Thursday.
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Hackers caught by FBI jailed over global virus *
British computer hackers who helped to spread a global virus have been jailed.
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Steve Irwin's tragic accidental death caught on film *
Queensland police have been handed the taped footage that was the last record of Australian Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin being fatally pieced through the heart by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Scream stolen from museum *
Armed men stormed into an art museum Sunday, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole Edvard Munch's famous paintings The Scream and Madonna before the eyes of stunned museum-goers.
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Thief swipes charity's Christmas Kettle in front of Wal-Mart *
The Salvation Army has had a Christmas Kettle containing charitable donations for people in need stolen at the entrance to the Wal-Mart in Saanich, located at the Town & Country Shopping Centre, 3601 Douglas Street. The incident occurred at approximately at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 6, 2005.
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Trojan spyware suspects arrested as major industrial espionage scandal emerges *
For all those webmasters who ridicule the idea of a virus enabling a hacker to "log keystrokes," here's a story that will curdle their blood: A London-based Israeli couple are at the centre of one of the world's largest industrial espionage and computer hacking scandals. And yes, says one source: "We think the Trojan had the ability to log keystrokes."
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