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Lauren Potter, star of the hit TV show Glee, who is in Winnipeg for a national Down syndrome conference, takes a moment for photographs with fans and media at the Delta Hotel Saturday. She is holding flowers given to her by one of her fans.

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A man known to have a relationship to the female victim in a double slaying discovered in Charleswood Friday has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder.

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