Police have charged a 31 year old woman with assaulting a man dubbed, Winnipeg’s “homeless hero.” 45 year old Faron Hall is in stable condition in hospital, recovering from his injuries. Hall is the former homeless man who last year rescued 2 people from drowning in separate incidents on the Red River near the Esplanade Riel Bridge. This weekend, Hall was seriously beaten in the apartment where he was living after a verbal dispute turned violent.
Bad weather on the weekend, forced a plane to crash land on Lake Winnipeg. RCMP say the pilot and a male passenger, both from Manigotagan, ended up on the east side of the lake on Saturday afternoon. The pilot ended up walking about 7 kilometers to get help, while he left his injured passenger inside the plane. Both the pilot and the passenger were rescued and taken to hospital, where they remain in stable condition.
It was a perfect lift off early this morning for the space shuttle Endeavor. The shuttle and its crew of 6 blasted off from Florida around 3 a.m. Winnipeg time this morning. This is one of the last shuttle flight’s scheduled…in fact, only 4 more flights are left.
Fire has gutted the Ottawa t.v. station that was first to host a young Alanis Morissette, employed future ABC news anchor, Peter Jennings, and produced the “Galloping Gourmet” and “The Amazing Kreskin.” Yesterday’s blaze at CJOH destroyed the station’s entire newsroom. CTV says damage is pegged at 2.5 million. No word yet on the cause of the blaze.
Could be a big day in the Michael Jackson case. An L.A. district attorney spokesperson says a charge will be filed today in the death last June of Jackson. After months of investigations and a week of trying to surrender, lawyers for Dr. Conrad Murray say they expect he’ll be charged today with a single count of involuntary manslaughter.
Olympic athletes start training today on Cyprus Mountain, just north of Vancouver, while snow continues to be flown and trucked in to dump on the mountain. Organizers have had to delay training for snowboarders competing in the halfpipe and giant slalom in order to protect the snow on those courses. But the I.O.C. says it remains confident the ski venue will be ready for this weekend’s start of the 2010 games.
Kind of the opposite problem in Washington D.C. today….where snow has paralyzed the American capital. U.S. federal agencies will be closed today as the region digs out from a weekend blizzard that dumped over 70 centimeters of snow. The storm grounded planes, trains and automobiles, leaving thousands of travelers stranded. As well, power was out to much of the region for over 24 hours.
Canadians continue to donate millions to Haitian relief. Various aid organizations are scrambling to ensure as much money as possible gets to the devastated country. Ottawa’s window to match donations closes this Friday.
