From Vancouver Sun Four members of the Red Scorpions gang have been arrested in connection with the worst gangland slaying in B.C. history: the execution of six people in a Surrey highrise 18 months ago. One of the four, infamous gangster Dennis Karbovanec, pleaded guilty Friday in B.C. Supreme Court to three counts of second-degree [...]

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From Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER — The victim in Friday’s brutal slaying near the UBC endowment lands has been confirmed as Wendy Ladner-Beaudry, sister to former Vancouver councillor and mayoral candidate Peter Ladner. “It’s tragic,” said Bob Ransford, a friend of the Ladner family. Ransford said he heard the news during a meeting today of the [...]

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From LA Times Faced with annual budget shortfalls that could grow to nearly $1 billion by 2010, Los Angeles city officials are considering the immediate layoffs of 400 city workers and eliminating an additional 2,800 positions in the months ahead, according to union officials. The city also is considering offering a voluntary early retirement package [...]

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From Mercury News She would do almost anything, police and prosecutors contend, to be with her boyfriend again. Her love for the imprisoned former Milpitas cop was so overpowering that authorities say she persuaded her own teenage daughter not to testify in court against the man charged with sexually molesting her. Friday afternoon, the San [...]

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A 16-year-old British boy wrote on his Facebook page that he was going to commit suicide, and the parents of a teenage girl in Maryland notified officials who were able to reach the depressed boy before he died. The unidentified boy was chatting with the Maryland girl on the social networking web site around 6 [...]

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