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Posted: 10/16/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

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KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The box of a dump truck is wedged between the road and the underpass.

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Laporte

City truck gets stuck

A City of Winnipeg truck was in limbo Monday morning after failing to pass below the Canadian Pacific rail bridge over McPhillips Street during rush hour.

At approximately 8 a.m., a northbound city truck struck the rail bridge in a collision that tore the box off the vehicle and placed it upright on McPhillips Street. The bridge was also damaged, a city spokeswoman said.

Police were forced to close McPhillips in both directions during rush hour but the street was reopened three hours later.

The truck was heading to a job site at Templeton Avenue to pick up fill and dispose of it, the city spokeswoman said. The driver was taken to hospital for observation and later released.

No anti-Semitism charge

POLICE had yet to lay charges Monday in the case of alleged anti-Semitic posters.

The original posters were found in mid-September, coinciding with the Rosh Hashanah Jewish new year holiday.

The latest poster, which was affixed to a pole on Broadway, lists 13 people -- mostly Jewish -- with all of their names stroked out.

"This one is being investigated with the first ones," Patrol Sgt. Monica Stothers said Monday. "The investigators are doing everything they can to identify the person who produced these posters."

The department's major crime and hate crime units are part of the investigation, Stothers said.

"We do take this seriously. It's an active, ongoing investigation."

The poster also discusses "cliques, corruption and organized crime," has a reference to Hitler with a dollar sign, and has a web address sending people to a recent article in the Jewish Post and News arguing for both Mayor Sam Katz and city CAO Phil Sheegl to resign.

David Matas, senior counsel to B'nai Brith, said he believes the poster is anti-Semitic.

Alleged bid to grab child

WINNIPEG police investigated an alleged child-abduction attempt Monday afternoon in East Kildonan.

A 10-year-old girl, a student at Hamstead Elementary School, was allegedly approached by a man wearing a black ski mask and driving a white van as she walked the 21/2 blocks back to school after lunch.

He allegedly offered her candy but she refused and then ran into school, with the man in pursuit.

Help sought to find girls

LAW-enforcement officials are asking for the public's help in finding two missing girls.

Annabella Mousseau, 11, who was reported missing Saturday, reportedly left her residence on the Dakota Tipi First Nation on her bicycle and hasn't been seen since.

She is described as 5-2, 120 pounds with brown hair with blond highlights. She was last seen wearing jeans, a dark jacket and a dark hat. Her bicycle is blue.

Police are also looking for Tanisha Shaylene Laporte, 14.

She is described as 5-4, with straight long brown hair and a pierced nose. She is about 120 pounds and was last seen around 1 p.m. on Oct. 10 in Winnipeg's North End wearing black yoga pants, grey runners and a black hoodie.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 16, 2012 B2

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