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2/4/2012
3:28pm
Parents can rest a little easier in Edmonton, the senior wanted in connection with a pair of attempted child abductions in the city has been arrested and charged.David Warren Buchanan, 67, was arrested in Penticton, B.C. Friday as police and RCMP members actively searched for the wanted man.Buchanan's warrants were extended to BC earlier this week and now Alberta Sheriffs will transport him back into our city over the next few days.Investigators say Buchanan has been charged with two counts of attempted child abduction and is the suspect in one other case.At this time there is ...
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2/4/2012
3:21pm
Progressive Conservatives in Edmonton-Calder are selecting a replacement for Doug Elniski Saturday.Elniski, who was first elected in the north end riding in 2008, announced last month that he won't be running again.PCs are choosing between Bev Esslinger, a former school board chair, Cheryl Johner, the current public school trustee in ward A, and Wendy Rodgers, who has in the provincial government for over 30 years.Voting wraps up at 5 at the Kensington Community Hall.Elniski is one of several Tory MLAs, including Iris Evans, Ron Liepert and Rob Renner, who have decided not to run this spring....
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2/4/2012
1:15pm
The man who admitted to snatching and raping a young woman in July of 2010 has pleaded guilty to his crimes.But Anthony Winston Clark, 34, will be back before a judge later this year. He's facing a dangerous offender hearing.The Edmonton Journal reports court heard Friday that it wasn't the first time Clark committed a random sexual assault. His most recent one involved a 24 year old woman, who he grabbed and assaulted in a wooded area near the Queen Elizabeth Pool.
He walked into the downtown police headquarters and confessed just a couple of hours after the ...
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2/4/2012
11:40 a.m.
The federal Liberal interim leader says he's disappointed that the new plan to monitor the environmental impact of the oilsands won't be run by an independent group immediately."If the data is going to have any credibility with the outside world, it's going to have to be an independent institution. I thought that was pretty clear," says Bob Rae.In a visit to Edmonton Friday for a public policy session, Rae tells 630 CHED's the Alberta morning News that it's the federal and provincial governments' responsibility to ensure the plan is based on the most accurate numbers available."The governments ...
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2/4/2012
11AM
It's the end of an era, as the historic York Hotel gets torn down this weekend.The city has been working to remove hazardous materials from the site since it closed in March of 2010 due to safety concerns. That work was completed at the end of January, and now the building is being demolished to make way for redevelopment.The area around the hotel is part of the city's Boyle Renaissance project. The city is renewing the area between 95 street and 96 street, from 103 A avenue north to the LRT tracks. The new developments include a large ...
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2/4/2012
10:30am
Alberta Conservatives are now back home after a party retreat in Jasper this week.The purpose of the trip was to plan for the upcoming session in the Legislature, looking at things like the throne speech and the budget.The three day excursion is coming under fire from the opposition though, which is pointing to the 70 thousand dollar bill handed to taxpayers.In response, Kim Misik with the Premier's Office says it was not a vacation."This is a working retreat, they focused on the business ahead got lots of work done, had some great conversations. Basically, it's what ...
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2/4/2012
8:45am
While some teenagers' idea of a delicacy involves cutting up wieners to put in their Kraft Dinner, others are a little more advanced.Teams of 3 from 13 different high schools in our area are squaring off this morning at the 5th annual High School Culinary Challenge."They have to make a vegetable chowder first," says Simon Smotkowicz, Edmonton's President of The Canadian Culinary Federation, "and then they have to make a beef dish, which is made with vegetables inside, and it's served with some red wine sauce that they are going to prepare, vegetables and some potatoes."Some local ...
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2/4/2012
4:55am
We now know who won the $25 million Lotto 649 jackpot last month.Tim and Kendolyn Elliott of Medicine Hat came forward on Friday to claim their big prize.Tim says he checked his ticket at a gas station in Leduc, where he was staying for some job training, and couldn't believe it.The couple is planning to pursue their dream of retiring to the Okanagan. (CHQR, ph)
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2/3/2012
11 pm
An Edmonton man has been caught up in a million dollar drug bust by Winnipeg police.
Project Deplete began in August 2011 targeting high level independent drug traffickers operating in Winnipeg and rural Manitoba.
And after numerous search and arrest warrants, 13 people have been charged including Ramsey Yaggey, 32, of Edmonton.
He's facing three different trafficking charges, along with possessing the proceeds of crime.
The 12 other suspects from Winnipeg, all men ranging in age from 21 to 36, are also facing trafficking charges.
Six of them remain on the loose with arrest warrants in place.
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2/3/2012
11 pm
In what's become a back-and-fourth affair, the University of Alberta is back on top in the Guinness World Records for the largest game of dodgeball.
President of the Students' Union Rory Tighe says the goal was to knock the University of California at Irvine off its pedestal.
"We had to beat a record of 4000 and we got a ton of people," remarked Tighe. "Our goal was 5000 and I think we had about that may people, but when you get down to the technicality of the record we had 4979. But we were turning people away so it was ...
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