The well-known owner of Rumor’s Restaurant and Comedy Club has passed away. Ross Rumberg, 58, died Sunday night.
“After years of struggling with health issues Ross’ heart seized to function. He was resuscitated several times throughout the night but because of the extended amount of time he arrested, irreversible damage had been done [...]

Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died Friday after he crashed during a training run at the Whistler Sliding Centre in preparation for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
The video was quite disturbing and showed the body of the 21-year-old being thrown off the track at 144 kilometres per hour.
UPDATE: 3:44 p.m. — The IOC and VANOC [...]

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One person is dead after a fatal fire 2 km north of Nelson House, Manitoba Friday night.
RCMP say a fire at a hunter’s cabin was reported at about 7:30 p.m. and was engulfed when crews arrived. The structure was completely destroyed by the fire, and a deceased body was discovered inside the [...]

A 47-year-old woman who was allegedly assaulted by her husband on January 20 has since died.
RCMP say the woman was taken to Portage la Prairie hospital in critical condition last Wednesday morning, but passed away Saturday night in hospital.
The charges against the woman’s husband, 54-year-old Kenneth Edward McDougall, have been upgraded from attempted murder to [...]

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Brandon police had their hands full Sunday investing two deaths in opposite ends of the city.
Police first arrived on scene at a home on Empress Bay in the East End (above), where a man was found to be deceased outside.
In an unrelated matter, police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man [...]

Two men died Friday night after the vehicle they were travelling in lost control and hit a pole on Bishop Grandin Boulevard, police said.
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The crash happened at around 11:30 p.m. in the westbound lane between St. Mary’s Road and River Road.
A blue 2-door Infiniti G35 was carrying four men in total.
Both victims are said to [...]

A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged following a fatal house fire on New Year’s Day in God’s Lake Narrows.
RCMP say officers were called to the house on the God’s Lake Narrows First Nation at about 5 a.m. The house was fully engulfed upon their arrival and a body was later discovered once the [...]

RCMP are investigating the death of a 14-year-old girl in Oxford House, which has since been ruled a homicide.
Police reported the death Monday, and flew in both the RCMP Thompson Major Crime Unit and RCMP Winnipeg Serious Crime Unit to investigate.
A post mortem is being conducted at the Health Sciences Centre today.
The circumstances surrounding her [...]

One man was killed in a Monday morning blaze that engulfed an Elmwood home at 598 Talbot Avenue. The fire broke out around 6:45 a.m. and was contained roughly an hour later.
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The district fire chief on scene originally reported two deaths, but later said only one person had perished.
Neighbours say the two-storey home was rather [...]

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Manitoba health officials confirmed today a second person has died as a result of contracting the H1N1 flu virus. The person was an adult between the age of 18 and 65 with no known underlying medical conditions. This is the second death in the second wave of the flu — five others [...]

Winnipeg police are remaining tight-lipped on the identities of the two male victims killed in a head-on crash early Saturday morning.
The crash occurred at around 12:30 a.m. on Logan Avenue and McPhillips Street.
Police said Sunday they will not be releasing the names of the men, aged 30 and 57.
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A Ford Taurus driven by the 30-year-old [...]

RCMP said today that the body found on Friday in a gravel pit at Birds Hill Provincial Park is of a 47-year-old man from Winnipeg. An autopsy was performed today at St. Boniface Hospital and foul play is not suspected.
The name of the victim is not being released.
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