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How police caught their own: The Free Press has obtained court documents that show Winnipeg police took down one of their own using an elaborate undercover sting operation on a constable suspected of stealing drugs, weapons and property. Const. Trent Milan died in a suspected suicide after he was criminally charged. Mike McIntyre has the exclusive story. READ MORE
Your forecast: The sound barrier for land vehicles was broken in 1948 when an unmanned rocket sled in California reached 1,640 km/h. That was an important barrier, but another important barrier will be broken in Manitoba today when the temperature rises above the freezing point. Today’s high will climb to +1 C, and Thursday will hit +4.
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SUPPLIED Lianna McDonald – director of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection
Super bot detects child abuse: A web crawler that uncovers child-abuse images at lightning-fast speed was unveiled in Winnipeg on Tuesday. In just six weeks, the Internet bot has combed more than 242 million websites and detected 5.1 million pages containing images of child pornography involving 1,141 different victims. Melissa Martin reports. READ MORE
New evidence in Derksen homicide?: Although Candace Derksen, 13, was murdered 32 years ago, defence lawyers for her accused killer tried on Tuesday to introduce new evidence they argue may point to a different suspect. Katie May reports. READ MORE
Up next
Rock n’ roll: The granddaddy of curling bonspiels, the Manitoba Open, slides out of the hack Thursday night at clubs all around the city. More than 300 teams are competing in the event. It wraps up Monday night.
Ondrej Pavelec 2.0: When the Winnipeg Jets take the ice at 6:30 p.m. today for a home game, a familiar figure will don the pads. Ondrej Pavelec, who was the Jets starting goalie for years, has been called up from the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League. Will he be cheered? Will he be jeered? It all depends on the scoreboard. READ MORE
Around the water cooler
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Server’s best shift ever: Mongo’s Grill server Jennifer Peitsch, 20, said she feels blessed after a stranger tipped her $1,000 on an $87 food bill. “Just the fact that a complete stranger would do this for someone they just saw working hard — it really touched me and has inspired me.” Ashley Prest reports. READ MORE
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Chelsea Manning: In a surprise move, outgoing U.S. President barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, allowing the transgender Army intelligence officer convicted of leaking more than 700,000 U.S. documents to go free nearly three decades early. READ MORE
On this date
On Jan. 18, 1955: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that an 83-year-old lawyer from Whitehorse, Yukon, advised Vancouver how to remedy its juvenile delinquent problem: “Spank hell out of them.” In Winnipeg, engineering crews had piled so much snow on the centre boulevard on Broadway that it cut off drivers’ view of intersecting streets. READ MORE
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