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A GoFundMe campaign was set up for 21-year-old Colin-Dube Wheat in the wake of a July 14 stabbing in downtown Campbell River left the father with serious injuries. Now the organizers are offering refunds after he was stabbed again. Photo from Facebook.

GoFundMe organizers offer refunds after B.C. victim stabbed again

Police label second attack as ‘attempted murder’

A GoFundMe campaign was set up for 21-year-old Colin-Dube Wheat in the wake of a July 14 stabbing in downtown Campbell River left the father with serious injuries. Now the organizers are offering refunds after he was stabbed again. Photo from Facebook.
A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Sunday’s suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing and wounding multiple people in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistan buries dead from massive suicide attack at political rally that killed 54

Hundreds of mourners attended funerals in Pakistan on Monday after a suicide…

A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Sunday’s suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing and wounding multiple people in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
A bird in Coquitlam is in the care of the BC SPCA after being harmed by three suspects at large on July 27, 2023. (RCMP handout photo)

Police look for 3 teens seen kicking ‘domesticated’ chicken in Coquitlam

The chicken was ‘quite friendly’ and believed to possibly be someone’s pet

A bird in Coquitlam is in the care of the BC SPCA after being harmed by three suspects at large on July 27, 2023. (RCMP handout photo)
FILE - Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse for his child molestation trial in Santa Maria, Calif., on May 25, 2005. A California appeals court on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits of two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children for years, a move the court appears likely to make after a tentative decision that would order the cases back to a lower court for trial. (Aaron Lambert/Santa Maria Times via AP, Pool)

Michael Jackson sexual abuse lawsuits on verge of revival by appeals court

A California appeals court on Wednesday will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits…

FILE - Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse for his child molestation trial in Santa Maria, Calif., on May 25, 2005. A California appeals court on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits of two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children for years, a move the court appears likely to make after a tentative decision that would order the cases back to a lower court for trial. (Aaron Lambert/Santa Maria Times via AP, Pool)
Portland Police respond to a shooting at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon. (Maxine Bernstein/The Oregon via AP)

A maternity ward in Oregon is the scene of fatal gunfire

Gunfire erupted in a maternity unit of an Oregon hospital over the…

Portland Police respond to a shooting at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon. (Maxine Bernstein/The Oregon via AP)
Colin Dube-Wheat, 21, was the victim of stabbing in downtown Campbell River in the early morning hours of July 14. A GoFundMe campaign set up has raised over $14,000. Photo from Facebook.

B.C. dad stabbed in the heart trying to be a Good Samaritan

More than $15,000 raised for Campbell River’s Colin Dube-Wheat, father of a 2-year-old daughter

Colin Dube-Wheat, 21, was the victim of stabbing in downtown Campbell River in the early morning hours of July 14. A GoFundMe campaign set up has raised over $14,000. Photo from Facebook.
News media wait outside of the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse where their is a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 18, 2023(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump’s classified documents case in Florida

A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next…

News media wait outside of the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse where their is a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 18, 2023(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Councillor James Miller’s past criminal charges have surfaced prompting the mayor to ask him to step away from public events while the city looks into the serious charges that were acquitted. (File photo)

Penticton councillor told not to attend public events in light of acquitted criminal charges

Coun. James Miller has issued a statement saying he will continue on council and as editor

Councillor James Miller’s past criminal charges have surfaced prompting the mayor to ask him to step away from public events while the city looks into the serious charges that were acquitted. (File photo)
FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. S(AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)

Home searched in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is tied to uncle of long-dead suspect

A home Las Vegas police searched this week in connection with the…

FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. S(AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)
Grand Forks RCMP is reporting a rise in files for the month of May, with most being traffic and suspicious persons or vehicle-related. Gazette file photo (Vladvictoria/Pixabay.com)

Naked woman assaults Kamloops Mountie

Woman appeared to be intoxicated and running around

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Grand Forks RCMP is reporting a rise in files for the month of May, with most being traffic and suspicious persons or vehicle-related. Gazette file photo (Vladvictoria/Pixabay.com)
Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he is accused of sexual offenses against four men while he worked at the Old Vic Theatre in London, Thursday July 6, 2023. (lucy North/PA via AP)

Prosecutors rest sexual assault case against Kevin Spacey in London court

Prosecutors rested their sexual assault case against Kevin Spacey in a London…

Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he is accused of sexual offenses against four men while he worked at the Old Vic Theatre in London, Thursday July 6, 2023. (lucy North/PA via AP)
FILE - This combination of file photos shows Charles Manson on Aug. 14, 2017, left, in a photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and on Dec. 22, 1969, right, leaving a Los Angeles courtroom. Leslie Van Houten, one of Manson’s followers, was released from prison on parole on July 11, 2023. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, left, and Wally Fong, right, via AP, File)

The Manson ‘family’: A look at key players and victims in the cult leader’s killings

In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on…

FILE - This combination of file photos shows Charles Manson on Aug. 14, 2017, left, in a photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and on Dec. 22, 1969, right, leaving a Los Angeles courtroom. Leslie Van Houten, one of Manson’s followers, was released from prison on parole on July 11, 2023. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, left, and Wally Fong, right, via AP, File)
John Cleaveland Heasman, 37, and Linda Lee Anderson, 39, were attacked and killed on this Langley City street in 2001. Their killer has been denied parole again, after a hearing concluded he remains a high risk. (file)

Man who killed couple on B.C. street denied parole, again

Remains a high risk

John Cleaveland Heasman, 37, and Linda Lee Anderson, 39, were attacked and killed on this Langley City street in 2001. Their killer has been denied parole again, after a hearing concluded he remains a high risk. (file)
FILE - Television actor Allison Mack leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 8, 2019, after pleading guilty to racketeering charges in a case involving a cult-like group based in upstate New York called NXIVM. Mack has been released from a California prison, according to a government website. Online records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons said she was released Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

`Smallville’ actor released from prison for role in sex-trafficking case tied to cult-like group

The television actor Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty for her role in…

FILE - Television actor Allison Mack leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 8, 2019, after pleading guilty to racketeering charges in a case involving a cult-like group based in upstate New York called NXIVM. Mack has been released from a California prison, according to a government website. Online records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons said she was released Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
A police robot was used to handle a pipe bomb found in the Aberdeen area of Kamloops on July 4. (Dave Eagles/Kamloops This Week)

Pipe bomb found in Kamloops neighbourhood

Police robot used to safely handle the explosive

A police robot was used to handle a pipe bomb found in the Aberdeen area of Kamloops on July 4. (Dave Eagles/Kamloops This Week)
Dashcam video captured passenger William Tickle assaulting Uber driver Aman Sood in Abbotsford on April 18. (Screengrab from video)

Abbotsford man who assaulted Uber driver gets 1 year probation

Passenger William Tickle attacked Aman Sood in vehicle in April 2023

Dashcam video captured passenger William Tickle assaulting Uber driver Aman Sood in Abbotsford on April 18. (Screengrab from video)
On what would have been Carson Crimeni’s 18th birthday, July 2, his father Aaron (centre) and grandfather Darrel (right) went to the skateboard park in Walnut Grove and put up a sign. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: A birthday memorial for Carson Crimeni

B.C. teen who was killed would have been 18 on Sunday, July 2

On what would have been Carson Crimeni’s 18th birthday, July 2, his father Aaron (centre) and grandfather Darrel (right) went to the skateboard park in Walnut Grove and put up a sign. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)
Members of the Waterloo Regional Police investigate a stabbing at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ont., Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Waterloo Regional Police said three victims were stabbed inside the university’s Hagey Hall, with one person taken into custody. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn

Triple stabbing at University of Waterloo was hate-motivated, police say

24-year-old former student charged in attack during gender studies class

Members of the Waterloo Regional Police investigate a stabbing at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ont., Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Waterloo Regional Police said three victims were stabbed inside the university’s Hagey Hall, with one person taken into custody. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn
Visitors take photos of the Ancient Colosseum, in Rome, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Italy's culture and tourism ministers Gennaro Sangiuliano vowed to find and punish a tourist who was filmed carving his name and his girlfriend's name in the wall of the Colosseum, a crime that in the past has resulted in hefty fines. Video of the incident went viral on social media, at a time when Romans have already been complaining about hordes of tourists returning to peak season travel this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy looks for man seen in viral video carving names into Rome’s almost 2,000-year-old Colosseum

Italy’s culture and tourism ministers have vowed to find and punish a…

Visitors take photos of the Ancient Colosseum, in Rome, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Italy's culture and tourism ministers Gennaro Sangiuliano vowed to find and punish a tourist who was filmed carving his name and his girlfriend's name in the wall of the Colosseum, a crime that in the past has resulted in hefty fines. Video of the incident went viral on social media, at a time when Romans have already been complaining about hordes of tourists returning to peak season travel this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
FILE - Actor Kevin Spacey smiles upon his arrival at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Double Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey goes on trial in London this week, accused of sexual offenses against four men in Britain. Spacey, 63, faces a dozen charges, which he denies. His trial starts Wednesday at Southwark Crown Court. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Kevin Spacey is about to stand trial in London on sex charges. Here’s what to know

Double Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey, whose stellar acting career was derailed by…

FILE - Actor Kevin Spacey smiles upon his arrival at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Double Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey goes on trial in London this week, accused of sexual offenses against four men in Britain. Spacey, 63, faces a dozen charges, which he denies. His trial starts Wednesday at Southwark Crown Court. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)