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3/11/2010
Calgary police are investigating an attempted sexual assault against a teenaged girl.
The fourteen year old was walking in an alley Wednesday in the 100 Block of Whiteridge Place N.E., when she was approached by a man.
The suspect asked the girl to come with him, but she refused and tried to run.
Police say the man grabbed her, but she was able to fight him off and run for help.
He is described as between 18 to 20-years-old, 5'1", 100 pounds, with olive-skin.
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3/11/2010
Reaction is mixed over the government's plan to cut royalty rates as a way to boost oil and gas investment.
The NDP says it is a political move and should not have been done.
The Wildrose Alliance says the move is promising, and the Liberals say it is about time the government cut the rate.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is also happy with the reduction.
Officials say the rates will be more in line with what they were before royalties were increased in January 2009.
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3/11/2010
The president of Canada Beef Export Federation says the country's 17th case of mad cow disease has not affected markets.
The beef cow was born in 2004 in Alberta, and the fatal degenerative brain disease was confirmed on Feb. 25.
Ted Haney says no markets have closed its doors due to this latest case, but it will delay Canada's move into a better status with the World Organisation for Animal Health.
Right now, Canada is categorized as being a controlled risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the scientific name of the disease, and Haney says that category is costly for producers.
To apply for negligible risk status for BSE, a country has to have no cases for 11 years after the birth year of the youngest animal diagnosed.
Because the cow in the latest case was born in 2004, it means Canada cannot apply for negligible risk status until 2015.
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3/11/2010
A home in Coventry Hills has been destroyed by fire.
Crews were called to the home around 3pm Thursday.
A neighbouring home also sustained some damage.
No one was hurt. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the fire.
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3/11/2010
The Alberta government has cut royalty rates for the oil and natural gas industry. Maximum royalty rates for conventional oil will drop to 40 per cent from the current 50 per cent. The top rate for natural gas will drop from 50 per cent to 36 per cent, close to where they were before the government raised them in January 2009. The government says the net result will be a $363-million reduction in revenue in 2012 and 2013. The new rates will take effect in 2011.
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3/11/2010
A brain-injured baby whose parents dropped a court battle to keep him on life support has died in their arms.
The parents of Isaiah May had been seeking to consult with medical experts to review whether their son should be unhooked from the medical equipment that was keeping him alive.
Their lawyer says Isaiah was surrounded by his family when he died around noon.
The court had been slated to hear details about an independent medical review of the boy's condition, but the proceeding did not go ahead.
The baby was born last October with severe brain damage after his umbilical cord got wrapped around his throat, which deprived him of oxygen.
Doctors at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital were planning to disconnect Isaiah from a ventilator on January 20th, but his parents persuaded a judge to give them time to get a second opinion.
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3/11/2010
A thirty one year old Calgary man is facing fraud charges in connection with a door-to-door scam.
Police say the man started approaching people in august of last year in northeast communities claiming he was locked out of his home and needed some money to pay a locksmith.
He promised to pay them back but never returned.
Peter John Brown is facing six counts of fraud under $5,000.
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3/11/2010
Calgary police, and investigators from Alberta Gaming anf Liquor, have busted illegal gambling operations in the city.
Three illegal gaming machines were discovered at Trung Nguyen Coffee & Billiard located on 17th Avenue S.E. this week.
As well, four similar machines were found at Midnight Billiards & Coffee Shop on 31st Street S.E.
Three people are facing charges.
Police also uncovered illegal drugs at the first location.
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3/11/2010
This is starting to get pretty serious.
The Calgary Co-op store in the southwest community of Oakridge has discovered more incidents of food tampering.
This morning, a few packaged deli cheese items and flatbread in the bakery area were found metal objects pushed into the packaging and clearly visible to the naked eye.T
here have been at least two similar incidents in the past - one in January and another in mid-February.
Police are working on the case and the Co-op has increased security as a result.
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3/11/2010
The Calgary mother who was charged with manslaughter after her daughter overdosed on methadone in 2006 has taken the stand in her own defence.
Lisa Guerin testified she haD no idea 16 month old Summer had injested the drug when she left her in the care of her father.
A day earlier, a friend of Guerin told the trial Lisa knew the girl got into the methadone, which the crown prosecutor contends was left in a coffee cup on top of the television.
Amanda MacDonald testified on Wednesday Summer had an orange stain on her shirt, and when Guerin saw it she yelled out, "Oh my god, she drank Jonathan's methadone!" referring to her ex-husband, co-accused Jonathan Hope.
Guerin has testified she believes her daughter had pizza sauce on her face, but there was no orange stain.
Choking back tears on the stand, Guerin said she thought Summer had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and didn't find out about the methadone until much later.
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