If you missed his passing -- The Sun devoted only a single paragraph to him last week, though The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times featured him on their obituary pages -- Bozo the Clown died last Thursday. If you did not feel a chapter closing in your life when you read the news, you are not of a certain age.

One of the city's finest has already survived near-electrocution and now an attempted strangulation -- all in pursuit of the city's criminals.

DELTA - When Canada's biggest mosque was officially opened in Calgary last weekend, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community announced plans to open a comparably large mosque in Metro Vancouver.

Rising fuel prices are adding millions of dollars to the cost of providing emergency services in British Columbia, recent reports indicate, with BC Ambulance Service alone anticipating a $6-million hike in gas bills.

More than 45 years ago, Canada's dream of creating a national Olympic hockey team made up of amateurs was born in a new arena at the University of B.C. under the tutelage of legendary coach Father David Bauer.

A battle over the site for free outdoor concerts on Quebec City's Plains of Abraham by Celine Dion and Paul McCartney appeared settled Monday, as organizers for Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebrations stuck to their decision to stage Dion's concert in an open field.

Monday's suicide attack on India's embassy in Kabul was condemned internationally as an act of cowardice, but it dealt a blow to the West's efforts to rebuild the battered Afghanistan.

The Organized Crime Agency of B.C. had "no justification" for firing biker-gang investigator Allen Dalstrom, Port Moody Police Chief Brad Parker has argued in an affidavit filed in support of Dalstrom's lawsuit.

BURNABY-A mother of three is facing charges of second-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of her husband Saturday night.

TERRACE - Police will be breaking open the folders on local missing persons cases after a group of hikers stumbled across human remains in a wooded area north of the city Sunday.

CHILLIWACK - Police are looking for a group of men thought to be involved a mugging near the PriceSmart store on Yale Road early Saturday morning.

ABBOTSFORD - Four police officers in Abbotsford were assaulted in two separate incidents over the weekend, prompting them to use Tasers and a baton.

CALGARY -- Alberta Liberal Leader Kevin Taft is calling on the province's auditor-general to investigate a blizzard of irregularities from the March 3 provincial election, insisting it was the "worst-run election ever."

PORTLAND -- A $4.2-billion US project designed to relieve the Interstate 5 bridge bottleneck will -- in two decades -- return congestion to about the same level drivers experience today.

LANGLEY - Homicide investigators are still waiting for the results of DNA tests to indicate whether accused killer Davey Mato Butorac should be charged in the death of a third woman.

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VICTORIA - Police arrested a 14-year-old boy for spray-painting a war memorial in Esquimalt on Sunday night.

Married in Zompicchia in the northeastern Italian province of Udine in the early 1900s, Anna Zorzi and Giuseppe Piccoli began their life together unaware of the adventures before them. A stone casa on the village piazza became the newlyweds' first home. Shortly after, their children, Gagliano and Mafalda, arrived in 1905 and 1907 respectively.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with injuries suffered by his seven-week-old son.