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A Winnipeg-born man who U.S. police say is one of South Dakota's most wanted prison escapees has been arrested in Manitoba after 16 years on the lam. Clifford Laframboise, 42, also known as Clifford Thomas, faces an extradition hearing Thursday morning in Winnipeg. He is currently in custody at...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/10/bc-grow-op-inspections-lawsuit.html Some homeowners in Mission, B.C., are planning a class action lawsuit to battle municipal inspections intended to find marijuana grow-ops, but that often result in nothing but a big inspection bill...

http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=canada&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1735607252 A Kelowna, B.C., RCMP officer who was caught on video kicking a suspect in the face has been suspended with pay. Const. Geoff Mantler had already been limited to administrative duties after he was...

A man and a woman have been found dead as a result of apparent trauma in a Richmond, B.C., hotel, police say. RCMP were called about 6 p.m. PT Saturday by staff at an unnamed local hotel requesting they investigate two guests who failed to check out as scheduled, Cpl. Sherrdean Turley said in a...

Const. Anthony Gordon, top left, Const. Lionide (Leo) Johnston, top right, Const. Brock Myrol, bottom left, and Const. Peter Schiemann were killed at Mayerthorpe, Alta., in 2005. A public inquiry will begin Monday morning into the shooting deaths of four Mounties who died more than five years...

A rural Manitoba school division official says it borders on ludicrous that a bus driver would bring a firearm with him on his route. "It's so far out of what's acceptable," Ray Derksen, chief superintendent of the huge Frontier school division that covers most of northern and eastern Manitoba...

An Île-Bizard, Que., man that the RCMP has accused of defrauding taxpayers of nearly half a million dollars will spend the weekend in an Ontario jail before his bail hearing related to 58 charges. The Mounties say Ahmad El-Akhal, 62, his wife Tahani Mohamad Hassan Ee-Akhal, 53, and Mississauga...

A 15-year-old boy from Terrace, B.C., has died after playing a punching game with another teen at a friend's party, according to the dead boy's grandmother. Police have released few details, but say Brad Levesque was at a friend's supervised birthday party and reportedly collapsed while playing...

Drug charges have been laid against a couple from Washington state after a major cocaine seizure at the Canada-U.S. border near Grand Forks, B.C. Scott Fleming Powers, 49 and his wife Diane Powers, 55, are accused of importing a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of...

A fire that destroyed the IGA grocery store in Fort Langley early Tuesday started under suspicious circumstances, police say. Fire, police, and private investigators scoured the burned-out site for two days, and concluded that an attempted break-in is to blame. "There was broken glass and...

Additional charges have been laid in connection with the gang rape of a teenage girl in an attack that was photographed and posted to the internet. A 16-year-old girl was raped by several people at a rave in Pitt Meadows, east of Vancouver, in September 2010, police have alleged. Cellphone...

Millions of dollars flowed through two B.C. casinos in the spring and summer of 2010 in what the RCMP believes may have been a sophisticated scheme to launder money from the drug trade, CBC News has learned. In documents obtained from a Freedom of Information request, the casinos reported to...

Daniel Greenside hasn't been seen since Dec. 16. The car was towed to Regina for forensic analysis, police said Police in Ontario are looking for a missing man who may have recently been in Saskatchewan. Daniel Murray Greenside, 50, was last seen on Dec. 16 at his cottage at Grand Bend...

Trevor Rankin of Ottawa had been missing since Christmas Eve. The police-hired diver seen here conducted a grid search of the waters behind Charlottetown's Harbourside apartment complex A body recovered from the Charlottetown harbour Wednesday afternoon is that of a missing Ottawa man, P.E.I...

Trevor Rankin of Ottawa has been missing in Charlottetown since Christmas Eve. Charlottetown police are searching for an Ottawa man who has been missing since Christmas Eve. Police said Trevor William Rankin, 38, was in the Charlottetown area visiting family, but has been missing since around...

A leaked U.S. government document says the heavy security demands of the Vancouver Olympics prompted the RCMP to curb drug investigations — a claim the force denies. The February 2009 cable, obtained by WikiLeaks and published by British newspaper the Guardian, says the national police force...

Sonia Varaschin's remains were found in a rural area in Caledon, near Beech Grove Sideroad and Mountainview Road. Investigators say this bootprint matches ones they found near where Sonia Varaschin's remains were found. About six different models sold at Mark's Work Warehouse use this sole...

Sonia Varaschin was reported missing in late August after failing to show up for work. Ontario Provincial Police say the FBI is helping investigators in the case of murdered Orangeville woman Sonia Varaschin. The 42-year-old nurse was reported missing in August and her body was found in a...

Leo Crockwell was arrested Saturday, after a weeklong armed standoff with RCMP in Bay Bulls, south of St. John's. Police in eastern Newfoundland are investigating how a man was able to walk away from an armed standoff with the RCMP without being noticed. Leo Crockwell, 55, appeared in...

Leslie Nielsen of 'Naked Gun' fame dies at age 84 44 min ago LOS ANGELES - Leslie Nielsen, who traded in his dramatic persona for inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in "Airplane!" and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" comedies, died on Sunday in Fort...