http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local local only, picked out of same lineup as homepage en-gb Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:27:37 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/patient-died-after-fall-from-operating-table-83868987.html New procedures for transferring patients from the operating table to a bed are being implemented in Winnipeg hospitals after two incidents last year at Grace General Hospital. Both cases involved patients who had just undergone orthopedic surgery. On Dec. 24, a female patient fell to the floor... Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/site-for-parents-sore-eyes-83868837.html Susan sits in front of the computer when she gets home from school. A couple of minutes to gulp down dinner and she's back in front of screen until bed. Beside her is her cellphone, which beeps constantly. Her fingers move expertly from phone keypad to computer keyboard as she texts, messages Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/bone-chilling-temps-become-hot-commodity-83868637.html WHILE the rest of the province is dreaming of green grass and warm breezes, Thompson is loving the freezing temperatures -- and the cold, hard cash that comes with it. The northern Manitoba community's cold-weather testing for vehicles and pretty much anything else that has a motor has never been, Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/reno-tale-likened-to-faron-hall-case-83868807.html Marion Willis predicted what nearly happened to Faron Hall last weekend. "Now he's dancing with death," she grimly told me in late December. Faron had just left a 58-day stay in an alcohol rehab facility and at that point he still had stitches on his face from a beating in front of a Main Street Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/volunteer-fire-crews-tackle-austin-blaze-83868712.html VOLUNTEER firefighters from three towns and a Hutterite colony pitched in Sunday to battle a blaze threatening Austin's downtown. Firefighters in Austin got a call at 11:01 a.m. Sunday about the fire, which broke out at a hair salon on 2nd Avenue, the town's prime business street. Austin is 110 km Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/councillors-ask-police-to-study-patrols-in-suburbs-83868812.html CITY council has formally asked the Winnipeg Police Service to explore the idea of ensuring cruiser cars patrol suburban neighbourhoods even when high-priority calls draw police resources to the inner city. In January, Transcona Coun. Russ Wyatt and North Kildonan Coun. Jeff Browaty made a motion Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/mpi-playing-politics-with-poll-question-tories-83868942.html MANITOBA Public Insurance is being accused of spending ratepayer funds to take the political pulse of the province on behalf of its NDP masters. In a survey being carried out on its behalf, MPI is asking 800 Manitobans whether they think the province is "going in the right direction" Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/cyclist-getting-his-klicks-83868917.html Lindsay Gauld is no astronaut but the mileage he has piled up over the past four-and-a-half decades is out of this world. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/got-more-trash-itll-cost-you-83868912.html If one week of your household junk doesn't fit into a 240-litre garbage cart, the City of Winnipeg is prepared to give you another one -- as long as you don't mind paying up to $113 in extra user fees. Over the past month, garbage cans at most northwest Winnipeg homes have been replaced with Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/cyclists-fled-shooter-at-scene-of-robbery-83868897.html A Winnipeg man told court Monday of cycling away from the scene of an armed robbery when a shotgun-toting North End resident shot and wounded his fellow cyclist. Isaac Chartrand testified that he and his friend, Harley Bruce, were cycling away on College Avenue on Sept. 15, 2007, from an Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 CST