Medicine Hat woman wins Tigers care package prize
Dale Ann Briggs was drawn Friday at Medicine Hat Arena as the big prize winner in the Big Brothers Big Sisters draw. She receives two 2006-07 Tigers season tickets, dinner for two, limousine ride to a game, and a video camera. Claude Skogen took the $500 second prize. Proceeds support community mentoring programs.
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Medicine Hat Tigers
Big Brothers
Big Sisters of
Medicine Hat Arena
Dale Ann Briggs
Black Gold Grill
Claude Skogen
Abiomed AbioCor Implantable Heart Receives FDA Humanitarian Exemption
The FDA granted Abiomed Inc a humanitarian exemption to sell the AbioCor device. The replacement heart is intended for patients near death with no other options and to be used only in those cases.
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Abiomed, Inc
Danvers
Mass
Food and Drug Administration
Abiomed Inc
Reception becomes charity benefit after canceled wedding
In Vergennes Vermont Kyle Paxman canceled her 180 guest wedding after learning of her fiance’s infidelity. She converted the Basin Harbor Club reception into a charity event benefiting the Vermont Children’s Aid Society and CARE USA, despite nonrefundable reservations.
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Vermont Children’s Aid Society
Care USA
Car Crash In Co-op Lot Injures Two In Medicine Hat
An 89 year old Chrysler driver backed into a Chevrolet Blazer in the Co-op parking lot at 12:11 a.m. on September 7 1997 and then struck power poles a garbage container and the Co-op building. The cane may have jammed the gas pedal causing the vehicle to lurch. The driver had minor scrapes and bruises while a female passenger sustained a broken wrist. Ambulance transport to hospital. Estimated damage over 18000.
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Chrysler
Co-op
Mischief Incident at Inland Gravel Pit Behind Ross Creek Golf Course
Crime Stoppers seeks tips on overnight August 30 into 31 mischief at Inland Gravel Pit behind Ross Creek Golf Course. A tractor tire valued at 12000 dollars was slashed and a Bobcat driven off site, with an unsuccessful fence breach attempt. up to 2000 dollars reward for information leading to arrests. Call 1-800-222-8477.
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Ross Creek
Boy charged in school threats to face mediation
A Saskatoon boy accused of leaving threatening messages on school answering machines is headed to mediation after a brief court appearance on a charge of uttering threats. A judge set Sept. 14 for mediation. The Youth Criminal Justice Act restricts identifying the youth. The threats were left on Nov. 28, 2005, prompting early morning lockdowns at three Saskatoon public elementary schools.
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Saskatoon
Youth Criminal Justice Act
Saskatoon Public Division
Accused Pickton to face two trials
The Crown will try Robert Pickton on six counts of first-degree murder in January. Prosecutors plan two trials as evidence supports charges for 26 women who vanished from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. defense may seek broader juror questioning. A second trial on the remaining 20 counts will occur later.
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New Westminster
B.C
Robert Pickton
Crown
Pickton
Vancouver
Stan Lowe
B.C. Supreme Court
RCMP solve 11 year-old rape case in Alberta
In 1995 RCMP hunted a white man in his 30s after a nine year old girl was abducted near Edmonton and assaulted near Grande Prairie. The case cooled until a Grande Prairie officer, Cpl John Wilson, received a certificate of appreciation for solving the long cold investigation.
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Edmonton
Grande Prairie
Alta
RCMP
Cpl
John Wilson
New York Physicists Challenge Ultra Precise Clocks
Jim Bergquist of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder leads researchers pushing atomic clocks toward unprecedented accuracy. He notes his own lateness, while describing clocks whose ticks differ by 10 billionth of a second and even by altitude, with a Denver clock running faster than one at sea level.
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New York
Jim Bergquist
Bergquist
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Boulder
Colo
Denver
Bush administration targets Iranian state bank Bank Saderat
The United States moves to cut Bank Saderat from the U.S. financial system, accusing the Iranian state bank of moving funds to militant groups including Hezbollah. Treasury official Stuart Levey said the action tightens Tehran’s access while Iran’s banks remain barred from direct U.S. access.
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Bush
Tehran
U.S
Stuart Levey
Treasury Department
Saderat
United States
Iran
Hezbollah
Austrian girl pays respects to captor
The Austrian teen held for 8 1/2 years visited a morgue to bid farewell to kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil in Vienna. She told a newspaper she almost escaped, then Priklopil killed himself hours after her flight to freedom on August 23. His remains were buried under a false name south of Vienna.
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Vienna
Austria
Natascha Kampusch
Medical Examiner
Wolfgang Priktopil
Freedom
Gerhard Lang
Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau
Priklopil
Lang
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