25 May 2005
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 25, 2005
Page
1
May 25 1085 Alfonso VI of Castile captured Toledo and seized the Moorish Centre of Science, shifting control to Christians as a milestone in medieval Spain. The report notes the decisive turnover and the impact on scholarly centers.
Unresponsive after 1:30 p.m. the next day led to death at 6:12 p.m. 1940 Quebec grants voting rights to women. Miles Davis, born in Alton, Illinois, reshaped jazz with Birth of the Cool and later Bitches Brew. His 1968 fusion era influenced Weather Report and Mahavishish Orchestra. Davis died September 28, 1991. Carole King’s Sunset Concert drew up to 100,000 in Central Park. Lt Col Karen McCrimmon became Canada’s first woman to lead a front line unit.
Medicine Hat Police Service continues inquiry into a single vehicle crash on Allowances Avenue S E at about 2 28 a m a 1988 gold American Motors Eagle struck a meridian guardrail then continued into the northbound lane causing about 6000 in damage to the car and 15000 to the guardrail and the driver left the scene.
Medicine Hat police responded to a failed car theft on Shields Crescent at 12:21 a.m. Tuesday. A 2005 Dodge Neon had its driver’s window broken and the ignition punched, but the suspects fled. Damage is pegged around $1000. Police seek tips and urge calling authorities or Crime Stoppers.
Alberta residents plan a Guinness World Record attempt with walkers from Medicine Hat and nearby areas. On Thursday May 26 participants must assemble at the downtown transit terminal at 4 Street E and 6 Avenue before 9 55 a m. The walk lasts about 20 minutes as part of SummerActive.
Brooks RCMP say they are investigating a theft from a vehicle on Eastbrook Drive East that occurred the morning of May 15 or 16. A wallet with credit cards and cash was taken, and police advise removing valuables and locking vehicles to reduce risk.
The Brooks RCMP joined with Provincial Parks Conservation officers for the Zero Tolerance Joint Enforcement program at Dinosaur and Kinbrook Provincial Park. Ongoing since 2003, the May long weekend recorded only six liquor tickets, with no impaired charges and no camper evictions in the two parks.
Brooks RCMP seek public help to identify suspects in a break-in at Trappers Family Restaurant on 2nd St West at about 4 45 a m. No suspects yet. Call Brooks RCMP detachment with information.
RCMP spokeswoman Const. Laurel Kading said police had not left the scene before the fatal bus crash north of Edmonton that killed six oilsands workers. Witnesses had alleged police had cleared the prior accident site minutes earlier. Investigators continue reconstructing Friday's collision.
Justice Dennis Hart of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ruled that Alberta's embattled securities commission must hand over confidential files to the provincial auditor general if requested. The decision says the auditor general has a broad mandate to audit management systems used by provincial agencies and must be able to assess control systems related to asset use by the ASC.
A B C Supreme Court judge issued an interim publication ban on evidence from a one day pre sentence hearing in the Kelly Ellard case. Justice Robert Bauman granted the request by Ellard's lawyer to shield inflammatory material from reporters while the sentencing proceeds. Ellard, convicted of second degree murder in Reena Virk's 1997 death, faces life with possible parole denial after seven years.
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