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By: Staff Writer

Posted: 08/13/2012 1:00 AM

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Nora Williams

Have you seen her?

POLICE are asking the public for help finding 80-year-old Nora Williams.

Williams was seen Saturday at about 6 p.m. in the William Whyte neighbourhood.

She may be in a confused state and she's very hard of hearing, police said.

She's described as aboriginal, 5-2, with a slim build and shoulder-length grey hair. She was wearing a black sweater, black pants and black shoes.

Police ask anyone with information about her whereabouts to call the missing persons unit at 204-986-6250.

Man charged in beating

DALLAS McKay was arrested Sunday morning in connection with a brutal assault that left a man in critical condition.

An arrest warrant was issued Friday for McKay for aggravated assault. McKay, 22, was apprehended Sunday morning without incident, police said.

Police were originally dispatched to Fidler Avenue and Mount Royal Road on Aug. 4 at around 3 a.m. Upon arrival, they found a man who had been brutally assaulted, suffering serious wounds to his upper body. He was rushed to the hospital, where he remains in critical condition, police said.

McKay is facing charges of aggravated assault, uttering death threats, and two counts of assault.

Mattress on fire

WINNIPEG firefighters extinguished a blaze in a Main Street hotel early Sunday morning after a mattress caught on fire.

Crews were dispatched at around 3 a.m. to a hotel in the 700 block of Main Street, a Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Services spokesperson said.

A mattress broke out in flames in a third-floor suite and the fire was quickly extinguished. No one was injured.

The third floor of the hotel sustained smoke and water damage. No damage estimate was available.

Rollover in the Whiteshell

A 29-year old woman is in Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora in critical but stable condition after a rollover Saturday afternoon in the Whiteshell, RCMP reported.

RCMP and paramedics were dispatched shortly after 3 p.m. to the scene of the single-vehicle accident.

"She rolled her vehicle while she was driving eastbound on Highway 1 in the Whiteshell Provincial Park, three kilometres west of Falcon Lake," Winnipeg RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Line Karpish said in an email.

The woman, reportedly from Thunder Bay, was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash and alcohol is not considered a factor.

-- staff

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 13, 2012 B4