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Residents reeling after man shot, killed by police

Van Ho was inside his sixth-floor Main Street apartment when he heard a ruckus in the hall around noon Wednesday afternoon.

Ho looked out his window to see police and emergency vehicles surrounding the 10-storey North Point Douglas Manor. When he peeked into the hallway, he saw the body of his next-door neighbour being carried away.

“I thought somebody was fighting, then I open my door and that’s what I see,” Ho saidThursday afternoon.

The Vietnamese immigrant moved to the building four years ago. He said his neighbour, who has not been identified, moved into the Manitoba Housing complex about two months ago, but often caused excessive noise at night and kept him awake.

House of horrors burned for TV film

The boy watched as fire began to consume the farmhouse, while a film crew taped the blaze for a movie.

As flames engulfed the two-storey farmhouse near Kipling, Sask., the boy was looking at more than a movie moment -- he was witnessing the destruction of the house of horrors where he was held prisoner and raped three years ago by one of Canada's most notorious child molesters, Peter Robert Whitmore.

"He didn't really care about the movie," the boy's father said Wednesday, recalling the blaze that bitterly cold day in February.

"We were all glad to see the place go."

Ribbon cutting marks new roads, buildings start in Water Tower District

Work is underway transforming land previously home to the massive Canada Packers building into St. Boniface’s latest development.

Alberta-based Olexa Developments and Winnipeg’s Shindico Realty Inc. held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday to unveil the names of two completed streets running through the new Water Tower District and mark the start of building construction.

Crews broke ground last month on the first multifamily residential building, which is expected to have 500 units. The developers have City of Winnipeg approval for 2,800 units across the 165-acre community, up from the previous 2,000-unit limit.

Dan Cristall, founder and CEO of Olexa, said the project has high potential because it can utilize existing infrastructure by being an inner-city development.

Police seize cocaine valued at $1.5M, about $750K in cash in raid on St. Vital house

A St. Vital homeowner and her husband were going about their business during an afternoon last month when police officers in tactical gear suddenly appeared, walking across their front lawn.

The target was a few doors down: a maroon split-level home on a quiet stretch of Satinwood Place, within earshot of children playing outside at a nearby school.

The homeowner, who asked not to be named to protect their privacy, said the police presence caught the couple by surprise in the Southglen neighbourhood, where they weren’t accustomed to seeing that kind of activity.

“We never heard the (police) cars pull up, but there were cars blocking the entrance to the street from both sides,” said the neighbour. “They had a shield, a battering ram — everything. Just not used to seeing that.”

Olympic soccer, boxing qualifiers in China affected by virus

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Olympic qualifying events in two sports were moved from the Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday because of an outbreak of a deadly viral illness.

A four-nation Asian qualifying group for the women’s soccer tournament was switched from the city at the centre of the health scare to Nanjing.

The Asia-Oceania boxing qualifying tournament scheduled for Feb. 3-14 in Wuhan was cancelled. No new plans were announced.

The decisions followed Chinese health authorities telling people in Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings.

The women’s 100 metres in Tokyo ended with Elaine Thompson-Herah’s celebration. It might have cost her a world record

Thompson-Herah beats compatriot Fraser-Pryce and leads a Jamaican sweep of the podium.