RCMP visit hotels in Revelstoke as avalanche casualties mount
REVELSTOKE, B.C. – (Update) RCMP officers are visiting Revelstoke hotels to try and determine just how many people are missing in an avalanche in which three have died, 17 injured and an unknown number remain unaccounted. A hotel clerk said RCMP...
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‘Horrendous tragedy’ – pregnant woman dies in Abbotsford crash
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A horribly tragic accident has taken the life of a six-month pregnant woman despite the best efforts of doctors to save the mom and the child. Even seasoned cops were reeling from the tragedy ...
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Paralympics 2010: Games of courage begin
By Craig McCulloch VANCOUVER – The Paralympic Winter Games are officially underway in Vancouver, less than two weeks after the conclusion of the Winter Olympics. Executive Produced by Vancouver based Patrick Roberge, the 4.2 million dollar ceremony was two-and-a-half hours full of...
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Huge pot farm found in small Okanagan community
PENTICTON – A 6,000 sq ft home in Okanagan Falls was converted into an indoor pot farm yielding $2 million per crop, RCMP said after dismantling the operation. Police carried out a search and found “an elaborate under ground electrical bypass...
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Cop killing suspect dies, OPP prepare for hero’s funeral
ORILLIA, Ontario - (Update) Fred Preston, 70, accused of the cold-blooded shooting death of OPP Const. Vu Pham has died. He died just hours after OPP charged him with the first degree murder. ...
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Toronto doctor accused of sexual assault on incapacitated patients
By Karen Mullins TORONTO – A hospital scandal has rocked Ontario with the revelation that a doctor working at North York General Hospital has been accused of sexually assaulted patients while they were under the effects of anaesthetics. The Toronto Police Service...
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Two Vancouver cops beaten, bloodied
VANCOUVER – Two Vancouver cops were left bleeding after being viciously punched by a violent man they were trying to arrest. The police officers had been called to the 2400-block of Commercial Drive to a report that a man was randomly...
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Toronto’s Jane Doe can’t remember a thing
By Karen Mullins TORONTO – Jane Doe walked into a Toronto centre for addiction and mental health and told workers she could not remember a thing about herself. Now, Toronto Police are asking for the public’s help in finding out who she...
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Relatives come forward to claim homeless man’s body
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Family members of Thomas Sawyer have finally come around to claim his body. Sawyer, a homeless man, was found unconscious in a lane behind 928 Richards Street at 2 a.m. on Sunday. Flowers lay next to his body. Sawyer...
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Okanagan gangster to serve 44 years in Seattle jail
SEATTLE - A former Peachland, B.C. resident who robbed a Tacoma bank with an AK-47 so he could set up a gang to rival the Hell’s Angels has been handed another 20 years in jail. Luke Elliott Sommer, 23, formerly a resident...
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Full police funeral Tuesday for Peel officer
BRAMPTON, ON - (Update) A full police funeral will be held for policeman Artem James Ochakovsky on Tuesday at the Hershey Centre, located at 5500 Rose Cherry Place, Mississauga on Tuesday at 1 p.m. Ochakovsky, a two-year veteran of the force, was...
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Ontario police mourn officer shot dead by elderly man
By Karen Mullins and Salim Jiwa LONDON, ON – Ontario Provincial Police are in mourning today after 37-year-old Const. Vu Pham was shot dead by a 70-year-old suspect whose vehicle he had stopped. Pham was instantly incapacitated by the shot and was...
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