The man found dead on a remote road just outside Winnipeg was a former outlaw
biker who ran afoul of the newly formed Manitoba chapter of the Hells Angels,
police and street sources say.
Although RCMP investigators recognize there are parallels between Sunday's suspicious
death of a 31-year-old Winnipeg man and the execution-style murder of Spartans
outlaw motorcycle club member Robert Rosmus two years ago -- they had not confirmed
any conclusive link between the two yesterday.
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An alleged violent "road rage" confrontation on the Perimeter Highway Feb. 21,
1998, left two women stranded and terrified at the side of the highway, court
heard yesterday.
An off-duty Winnipeg police officer is accused of dragging a teenage girl out
of her car and then driving off with her car keys after a confrontation on the
Perimeter.
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Besieged by opposition, embattled Mayor Glen Murray was yesterday offered some
moral support from a guy who knows just what he's going through. Too bad the mayor
wasn't around to receive it.
If he had been, he would have heard first-hand from Dave Canfield how a user-pay
collection system has cleaned up Kenora, Ont.
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Manitoba public schools will get a funding increase of between 2.5% and 3% this
year, Education Minister Drew Caldwell says.
School divisions should hear within the next 10 days what the exact number will
be as they get set to plan their budgets for the year, he said.
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Charles O'Brien escaped with his life when he jumped out of a vehicle moments
before the driver refused to pull over and smashed into a semi-trailer, O'Brien
testified yesterday.
Darrell Fontaine, 20, didn't slow down even as he was heading straight for Jerry
Merke's rig Merke was pulling over on to the side of Highway 6, as Merke himself
testified during Fontaine's first-degree murder trial.
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RCMP say a 20-year-old man may have committed suicide yesterday by driving his
truck off a highway overpass while officers followed behind at more than 120 km-h.
Staff Sgt. Andre Arsenault said Steinbach RCMP received a telephone call about
4:50 a.m. from a family member "concerned about the emotional well-being" of Patrick
James Smith, a 20-year-old resident of Middlebro.
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