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Pilots guide helicopter to safety in Victoria after lightning strike

Pilots guide helicopter to safety in Victoria after lightning strike

Twelve passengers and two crew were on board when instruments that guide the pilots through clouds stopped working and two of the four tail rotor blades were lost.
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Man who threatened social workers, smashed up their office, is sentenced to year in jail

Man who threatened social workers, smashed up their office, is sentenced to year in jail

He came to the office dressed as construction worker, armed with a sledgehammer.
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Crime victim support expands to grandparents and grandkids

Crime victim support expands to grandparents and grandkids

The B.C. government also plans to increase funding to sexual-assault centres
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Writing as therapy: Intensive journaling helps prisoners deal with their traumas

Writing as therapy: Intensive journaling helps prisoners deal with their traumas

Bill Israel teaches prisoners at William Head and men in recovery from addiction at New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Centre to write about their lives
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Port Alberni mother convicted of manslaughter in shooting death of son

Port Alberni mother convicted of manslaughter in shooting death of son

A jury acquitted Samantha Dittmer of the second-degree murder of Jesse McPhee, but found her guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.
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Jury begins deliberations in fatal Port Alberni shooting

Jury begins deliberations in fatal Port Alberni shooting

Samantha Dittmer, 63, has pleaded not guilty, describing the fatal shooting as an “accident.”
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Evidence at scene proves shooting of Port Alberni man was deliberate: Crown

Evidence at scene proves shooting of Port Alberni man was deliberate: Crown

Crown prosecutor Gordon Baines told the jury they should have no difficulty in finding that Dittmer shot her son, Jesse McPhee, point-blank in the chest
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Langford man sentenced to life in prison for killing wife with hammer, strangling her

Langford man sentenced to life in prison for killing wife with hammer, strangling her

Kenneth Lawrence Weber pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Kerri Weber on Nov. 5, 2020
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Port Alberni mother had reached a breaking point over son's behaviour, Crown argues

Port Alberni mother had reached a breaking point over son's behaviour, Crown argues

The prosecutor argued at her second-degree murder trial that Samantha Dittmer made a decision to handle a firearm in a heightened state of emotion
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Gun went off as son charged at her, mother testifies at her murder trial

Gun went off as son charged at her, mother testifies at her murder trial

Samantha Dittmer is charged with second-degree murder of her son, Jesse McPhee, who was shot to death at point-blank range in the family home on Aug. 29, 2021.
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