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3/12/2010
A judge in Calgary has found two parents guilty of failing to provide the necessities of life after their 16-month-old daughter died of a methadone overdose in 2006.
Lisa Guerin and Jonathan Hope were acquitted of manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death.
Summer Hope died after consuming the powerful legal drug, which is used to treat addictions.
Court heard that her father told two officers he got his daily dose of methadone at a clinic, but spat a mouthful into a coffee cup and brought it home.
The Crown's key witness, a friend of Guerin's, testified that both parents saw Summer with an orange stain on her shirt and assumed she had ingested the drug.
But lawyers for both parents argued there was no evidence of either a coffee cup or stained clothing, and that neither knew how dangerous methadone could be.
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3/12/2010
The first degree murder trial for Christopher Watcheston has adjourned for the weekend, but there has been a new development in the case, which has caused some delays.
Defence Lawyer Alain Hepner says he was given a report by the crown Friday morning and more details in the afternoon.
Details were not released in court.
The defence is asking for some time to go over the material.
Twenty four year old Christopher Watcheston has admitted to raping and kicking the head of Arcelie Laoagan as she was walking away from the Franklin LRT station two years ago.
He claims he did not know what he was doing due to the effects of drugs and alcohol.
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3/12/2010
A thirty one year old Calgary man has been found guilty of first degree murder in a fatal shooting outside a Tim Horton’s on 12th Avenue and 11th Street S.W.
Justice Sandy Park says while a key witness is a drug dealer and a man of disrepute, his evidence was corroborated by video surveillanced at the scene.
Semere Mehari shot and killed efrem kuflom as he was driving away from the coffee shop.
He was waiting behind a dumpster for the deceased, wearing a mask and gloves.
Mehari has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least twenty five years.
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3/12/2010
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has cleared a Calgary police officer, involved in a deadly shooting at a car wash last spring, of any criminal charges.
Travis Oakes, who was reportedly in a stolen car, was killed after being shot by a police officer in a southwest car wash early in the morning on March 18, 2009.
The suspect was boxed in by undercover police who were hoping to make an arrest.
Police stated that Oakes resisted arrest and tried to ram unmarked cars to get away.
Police then opened fire striking Oakes three times.
He died later in hospital.
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3/12/2010
Calgary police have charged a man who was wanted on forty four outstanding warrants.
Twenty six year old Scott Mendoza was arrested at a home in the 600 Block of 67th Avenue S.W with assistance from the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency.
Warrants against Mendoza include break and enter, dangerous use of a weapon, robbery, trafficking and possession of stolen property.
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3/12/2010
Bow Valley College in Calgary is receiving $1.6 million in federal funding to be used for three projects through the career focus program and the office of literacy and essential skills.
Lee Richardson, M-P for Calgary Centre, says the programs will help Canadians with low literacy develop the skills needed to participate in the job market.
The funding comes from Canada's Economic Action Plan.
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3/12/2010
A group of Albertans, concerned about the protection of the province's watersheds, says delays in implementing recommendations from the land use framework are putting many lands at risk because there is no protection from inappropriate development in the interim.
A new report from a group called Water Matters says there needs to be better land use management to address water shortages and water treatment costs.
Associate Director Joe Obad says watersheds can provide a valuable economic benefit in reducing those costs.
He says while the government's land use framework talks of protecting watersheds not much is happening in the interim even though he says the government has shown it can act quickly if it wants to.
But he says it seems the government is taking a different approach in protecting watersheds as the land use framework drags out.
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3/12/2010
A new development in the trial of a 24 year old man accused of stalking, raping, and murdering a C-Train commuter over two years ago.
Defence lawyer Alain Hepner says he received a new piece of information and it's substantial enough that he may have to reconsider his case.
Hepner will review the material over an adjournment and decide what to do next when the trail resumes at 2pm.
His client, Christopher Watcheston, spent the last two days on the stand outlining how he raped and murdered the victim near the Franklin LRT station in January 2008.
The defence was planning on calling its final two witnesses today.
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3/12/2010
A 46 year old Calgary trucker is in a heap of trouble after he was allegedly caught at the border with millions of dollars worth of cocaine.
Mounties outside Creston B.C. say the suspect was caught last Saturday with 10 kilograms of the drug hidden in a semi truck.
He was arrested on the Canadian side of the border.
RCMP believe there is a link to organized crime, given the quantity of the drugs.
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3/12/2010
Edmonton police confirm two people are dead and a third injured after a gunman opened fire at a west end car dealership.
Officers were called to Great West Chrysler shortly after 8 a.m.
It's believed one of the dead was the shooter, but police aren't confirming that.
The injured man is being treated in hospital.
Police say they don't know at this point what the motivation may have been behind the shooting.
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