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Posted: 09/12/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

$703K for bus monitor

TORONTO -- A Toronto man's campaign to give an American grandmother a vacation from a workplace in which she was tyrannized by teenage bullies ended Tuesday with the retired school bus monitor receiving a cheque for $703,000.

Karen Klein, 68, of Greece, N.Y., was in Toronto for the ceremony.

The funds were presented by Max Sidorov, a 25-year-old nutritionist who felt compelled to help Klein after watching a video of her fielding profane taunts and outright threats from a group of middle school students during a bus run last June.

Lougheed seriously ill

EDMONTON -- Former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, whose epic battles with Ottawa shaped the province on the national stage, is in a Calgary hospital with what sources say is a serious illness.

Lougheed's family, in a prepared statement Tuesday, asked for privacy and promised updates as warranted.

"Peter Lougheed and his family are very thankful for all of your kindness and prayers at this time," read the release.

Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives turfed the long-governing Social Credit in 1971. Lougheed, who is 84, led the party until 1985.

U.S. Consulate attacked

TRIPOLI, Libya -- A Libyan security official says one American consulate employee has been shot dead and another wounded in the hand during an attack at the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Bengazi.

Wanis al-Sharef, an interior ministry official in Bengazi, said the two were shot at the consulate during an attack by armed men who stormed the building. He provided no further details.

The angry protest at the consulate Tuesday was sparked by outrage over a film promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States attacking Islam's prophet Muhammed.

-- from the news services

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 12, 2012 A8

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