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A little sheepish about the subject?

Grade 6 student Katrina Camaya, right, holds a sheep’s brain as she looks at a display with her classmates Thursday at Father Leonard Van Tighem School as part of a visit by University of Lethbridge students promoting Brain Awareness Week at the U of L March 15-20. The event will see a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Monday by Robert Sutherland, a leading expert in how the brain processes memory, as well as an open house from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 20 at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience on campus. Herald photo by Ian Martens

 
Wounded in gunfight, alleged killer of OPP officer dies in hospital
Thursday, 11 March 2010
WINGHAM, Ont. - The retired logger and avid hunter accused of gunning down an Ontario Provincial Police officer earlier this week died Thursday from wounds he received in a gunfight with police, as the officer's family prepared to lay him to rest with full police honours.
 
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Escapee appeared up to his old tricks
The circumstances of an Alberta prison escapee’s arrest in Surrey, B.C. recently are remarkably similar to those when local police nabbed him three years ago in Lethbridge. Nathan Mario Paolinelli and his girlfriend Stacey Marie Scharf were arrested last week as they were about to make a purchase in a store. Mounties say when they searched the couple’s apartment they found more than $75,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency, crystal methamphetamine, three forged postal keys, a large number of stolen ID cards, forged credit cards and specialized paper and printers. Paolinelli escaped Nov
 
Handing out the Hurricanes hardware
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Seventy down, two to go. Facing the Medicine Hat Tigers in a home-and-home series Friday and Saturday, the Lethbridge Hurricanes will close the books on their 2009-10 Western Hockey League season. And while the 20-42-5-3 Hurricanes will try to avoid tying a franchise record
 
Holdouts in US town above decades-old mine fire claim condemnations part of 'massive fraud’

Mexican telecom magnate becomes 1st person from developing world to be named ’world’s richest’

A dress like no other: Some creative teens design, sew their own prom get-ups

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Higher education essential, SACPA session hears

Higher education is essential to help cure two ills which afflict North American society today, a...

Arsonist sentenced to time served

The 18-year-old man charged with starting a fire at the Chinese Free Masons building in downtown...

Hearing set for murder charge

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a Fort Macleod man charged with second-degree murder...

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Wounded in gunfight, alleged killer of OPP officer dies in hospital

WINGHAM, Ont. - The retired logger and avid hunter accused of gunning down an Ontario Provincial...

Toronto anesthesiologist charged with sexual assault of three patients

TORONTO - Allegations that a Toronto doctor sexually assaulted three female patients while they...

Victoria war vets win reprieve from B.C. government eviction

VICTORIA, B.C. - The Liberal government has backed away from plans to turf a branch of the Royal...

World
US officials: Terrorism suspect who worked at nuke plants not linked to any breaches

BUENA, N.J. - An official in the state of New Jersey says a suspected terrorist who worked at a...

NYC agrees to pay up to $657M to settle health lawsuits filed by World Trade Center workers

NEW YORK - After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies...

Wife, daughter of US Senate leader Harry Reid hospitalized with injuries from auto accident

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday...

Sports
Competitors in 1,770-km sled dog race fuel up on fancy meals, junk food

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race take care of their dogs first when...

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Here are the sports results from Thursday:

Andrei Kostitsyn goal gives Habs 5-4 win over Oilers in shootout

MONTREAL - Andrei Kostitsyn scored in the fifth round of a shootout to give the Montreal Canadiens...

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Entertainment
NYC ex-model sues for $10M over use of bikini photo as bawdy prop in comedy ’Couple’s Retreat’

NEW YORK - A former model says she's appalled that her nearly decade-old bikini photo became a...

Lawyers appeal for reversal of Phil Spector's conviction in murder of actress Lana Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to...

NYC socialite Tinsley Mortimer hopes new reality TV show will reveal what she’s really like

NEW YORK - Red carpet regular Tinsley Mortimer is jumping from the social circuit to the national...

Business
17th case of mad cow disease delays Canada's movement into better risk status

EDMONTON - The president of Canada Beef Export Federation says the country's 17th case of mad cow...

Regulators shut down LibertyPointe Bank; makes 27 bank failures this year

WASHINGTON - U.S. regulators on Thursday shut down LibertyPointe Bank in New York City, boosting to...

Exports forecast to remain strong even as rebounding economy pushes imports up

WASHINGTON - U.S. exports dipped in January, the government said Thursday, but economists weren't...

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