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Diamond tops chart for first time
Singer Neil Diamond has reached the top of the US Billboard album chart for the first time in his career. Home Before Dark, the 67-year-old's 29th studio album, made its chart debut in the #1 position. 5/15/2008 8:20:00 PM
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Doctors Overwhelmed By China Quake Victims
After 11-year-old Zhang Jiazhi wriggled free of the rubble that remained of his middle school, he and his parents faced a new ordeal - saving his arms, which were crushed to a pulp. 5/15/2008 5:39:02 PM
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Tethered girl gets $60,000 from Police
A jury at a civil trial awarded a teenager $60,000 for being mistreated while in the custody of the Victoria police. Willow Kinloch was 15 when she was handcuffed, with her legs and arms restrained, and tethered to the door of a padded cell. 5/15/2008 5:10:03 PM
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Official 'Stupidity' on exhibit at Taser inquiry
When we heard last week that Mounties had zapped a penknife-waving, 82-year-old heart patient in his Kamloops hospital bed, it was clear that, whatever faults the Taser might have, they are being exacerbated by police stupidity. 5/15/2008 3:52:30 PM
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New Starbucks logo, group says 'Slutbucks!'
A Christian group has found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee. Mark Dice says the new image "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,".."Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks." 5/15/2008 3:42:56 PM
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Sicamous showcased in photo/model exhibition
Youths enter guilty pleas on arson charges
RDOS concerned about Similkameen dam
Vehicles on display at Blossom Run
Net video lands US man in prison
Death toll in Burma cyclone climbs
Biden: Bush's comments were 'bullshit'
California lifts gay marriage ban
Lottery Corp and 'Winner' misleading public
Magazine boycotts Sex And The City
Hollywood: Pellicano found guilty 
Britney Spears and Mel Gibson Vacation Together
Charles urges forest logging halt
Wildlife populations 'plummeting'
U.S. polar bear decision condemned in North
Put 'price on waste and pollution': Dion
Mom indicted in suicide My Space hoax
Microsoft: An outfit some love to hate
CRTC tells Bell, Prove networks are clogged
B.C. Place stadium to get retractable roof
Students say beauty school is a sham
Stop feeding homeless say Abbotsford councillors
17-year-old Bountiful girl in Texas raid
Flight attendant charged with setting fire
Marijuana popular among educated, middle-class Canadians
Andretti buys Toronto Indy, needs a date
Flyers push back at Penguins
Big Brown is the class of the Preakness field 
Barkley owes Casino $400,000.
U.S.: Clean-air rules for parks may be eased
Vitamin D may help curb breast cancer
Warning about Trophic's Kelp product
Morning-after pill now over-the-counter in Canada
