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A GoFundMe campaign was set up for 21-year-old Colin-Dube Wheat in the wake of a July 14 stabbing in downtown Campbell River left the father with serious injuries. Now the organizers are offering refunds after he was stabbed again. Photo from Facebook.

Campbell River GoFundMe organizers offer refunds after victim stabbed again

Colin Dube-Wheat was stabbed earlier this month in downtown core.

A GoFundMe campaign was set up for 21-year-old Colin-Dube Wheat in the wake of a July 14 stabbing in downtown Campbell River left the father with serious injuries. Now the organizers are offering refunds after he was stabbed again. Photo from Facebook.
A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Sunday’s suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing and wounding multiple people in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistan buries dead from massive suicide attack at political rally that killed 54

Hundreds of mourners attended funerals in Pakistan on Monday after a suicide…

A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Sunday’s suicide bomber attack in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Monday, July 31, 2023. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing and wounding multiple people in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
RCMP crest. (Black Press Media files)

Combatants, police officers hospitalized in Campbell River stabbing, arrest

21-year-old man stabbed multiple times by a 22-year-old suspect; Two officers injured during arrest

  • Jul 29, 2023
RCMP crest. (Black Press Media files)
A bird in Coquitlam is in the care of the BC SPCA after being harmed by three suspects at large on July 27, 2023. (RCMP handout photo)

Police look for 3 teens seen kicking ‘domesticated’ chicken in Coquitlam

The chicken was ‘quite friendly’ and believed to possibly be someone’s pet

A bird in Coquitlam is in the care of the BC SPCA after being harmed by three suspects at large on July 27, 2023. (RCMP handout photo)
Storybook Village in Qualicum Beach was again damaged by vandals. Pictured is Scott Beam, Oceanside Building and Learning Together (OBLT) manager. (PQB News file photo)
Storybook Village in Qualicum Beach was again damaged by vandals. Pictured is Scott Beam, Oceanside Building and Learning Together (OBLT) manager. (PQB News file photo)
FILE - Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse for his child molestation trial in Santa Maria, Calif., on May 25, 2005. A California appeals court on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits of two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children for years, a move the court appears likely to make after a tentative decision that would order the cases back to a lower court for trial. (Aaron Lambert/Santa Maria Times via AP, Pool)

Michael Jackson sexual abuse lawsuits on verge of revival by appeals court

A California appeals court on Wednesday will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits…

FILE - Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse for his child molestation trial in Santa Maria, Calif., on May 25, 2005. A California appeals court on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits of two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children for years, a move the court appears likely to make after a tentative decision that would order the cases back to a lower court for trial. (Aaron Lambert/Santa Maria Times via AP, Pool)
Portland Police respond to a shooting at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon. (Maxine Bernstein/The Oregon via AP)

A maternity ward in Oregon is the scene of fatal gunfire

Gunfire erupted in a maternity unit of an Oregon hospital over the…

Portland Police respond to a shooting at the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon. (Maxine Bernstein/The Oregon via AP)
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Colin Dube-Wheat, 21, was the victim of stabbing in downtown Campbell River in the early morning hours of July 14. A GoFundMe campaign set up has raised over $14,000. Photo from Facebook.

B.C. dad stabbed in the heart trying to be a Good Samaritan

More than $15,000 raised for Campbell River’s Colin Dube-Wheat, father of a 2-year-old daughter

Colin Dube-Wheat, 21, was the victim of stabbing in downtown Campbell River in the early morning hours of July 14. A GoFundMe campaign set up has raised over $14,000. Photo from Facebook.
News media wait outside of the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse where their is a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 18, 2023(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump’s classified documents case in Florida

A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next…

News media wait outside of the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse where their is a pretrial conference to discuss procedures for handling classified information in the case against former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 18, 2023(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Councillor James Miller’s past criminal charges have surfaced prompting the mayor to ask him to step away from public events while the city looks into the serious charges that were acquitted. (File photo)

Penticton councillor told not to attend public events in light of acquitted criminal charges

Coun. James Miller has issued a statement saying he will continue on council and as editor

Councillor James Miller’s past criminal charges have surfaced prompting the mayor to ask him to step away from public events while the city looks into the serious charges that were acquitted. (File photo)
FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. S(AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)

Home searched in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is tied to uncle of long-dead suspect

A home Las Vegas police searched this week in connection with the…

FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. S(AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)
Nanaimo RCMP investigate at the scene of a shooting March 12 near a homeless encampment along the Millstone River close to Terminal Avenue. (News Bulletin file photo)

Charges dropped related to shooting at Nanaimo homeless encampment

B.C. Prosecution Service says evidence ‘does not provide a full or entirely clear picture’

Nanaimo RCMP investigate at the scene of a shooting March 12 near a homeless encampment along the Millstone River close to Terminal Avenue. (News Bulletin file photo)
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PQB crime report: Crooks pilfer children’s playhouse from daycare

Oceanside RCMP also deal with break-ins, bike theft

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Grand Forks RCMP is reporting a rise in files for the month of May, with most being traffic and suspicious persons or vehicle-related. Gazette file photo (Vladvictoria/Pixabay.com)

Naked woman assaults Kamloops Mountie

Woman appeared to be intoxicated and running around

  • Jul 14, 2023
Grand Forks RCMP is reporting a rise in files for the month of May, with most being traffic and suspicious persons or vehicle-related. Gazette file photo (Vladvictoria/Pixabay.com)
Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he is accused of sexual offenses against four men while he worked at the Old Vic Theatre in London, Thursday July 6, 2023. (lucy North/PA via AP)

Prosecutors rest sexual assault case against Kevin Spacey in London court

Prosecutors rested their sexual assault case against Kevin Spacey in a London…

Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he is accused of sexual offenses against four men while he worked at the Old Vic Theatre in London, Thursday July 6, 2023. (lucy North/PA via AP)
FILE - This combination of file photos shows Charles Manson on Aug. 14, 2017, left, in a photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and on Dec. 22, 1969, right, leaving a Los Angeles courtroom. Leslie Van Houten, one of Manson’s followers, was released from prison on parole on July 11, 2023. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, left, and Wally Fong, right, via AP, File)

The Manson ‘family’: A look at key players and victims in the cult leader’s killings

In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on…

FILE - This combination of file photos shows Charles Manson on Aug. 14, 2017, left, in a photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and on Dec. 22, 1969, right, leaving a Los Angeles courtroom. Leslie Van Houten, one of Manson’s followers, was released from prison on parole on July 11, 2023. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, left, and Wally Fong, right, via AP, File)
RCMP aided by Police Dog Services (Norco) and Air Services, successfully apprehended a suspect in a July 5 assault, after the suspect fled the scene of the crime, into a heavily wooded area near Comox Lake on an ATV. Photo supplied anonymously

Man charged with ‘several offences’ after assault in the Comox Valley

One suspect has been arrested after a serious assault on the 3300…

  • Jul 11, 2023
RCMP aided by Police Dog Services (Norco) and Air Services, successfully apprehended a suspect in a July 5 assault, after the suspect fled the scene of the crime, into a heavily wooded area near Comox Lake on an ATV. Photo supplied anonymously
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PQB crime report: Residents bilked out of cash in series of phone scams

Oceanside RCMP also deal with vandals, break-ins

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John Cleaveland Heasman, 37, and Linda Lee Anderson, 39, were attacked and killed on this Langley City street in 2001. Their killer has been denied parole again, after a hearing concluded he remains a high risk. (file)
John Cleaveland Heasman, 37, and Linda Lee Anderson, 39, were attacked and killed on this Langley City street in 2001. Their killer has been denied parole again, after a hearing concluded he remains a high risk. (file)