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9/3/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
A man was hospitalized Thursday evening after being beaten in a suite at the Shangri-La Hotel complex about 8 pm. Vancouver Police and the Emergency Response Team responded to a call the man made himself after escaping his captors.
He was immediately sent to hospital for treatment of injuries to his face. Police arrested two men and a woman and are looking for another man in connection with the abduction and beating. It's believed the suspect is known to authorities.
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9/3/2010
CASTLEGAR/CKNW(AM980)
Mounties in Castlegar are going through images of naked teens taken from the computer of a 24 year old man. Police are trying to figure out their ages, as the man is already facing sex charges involving a 14 year old girl.
Mounties say the man had taken photo's of the 14 year old and sent them to her Facebook account. A family member contacted police.
Acting on a search warrant, investigators seized his computer and a camera. They say they also found out the man had sex with the girl several times. A search of the computer turned up images of several other nude Castlegar-area girls or teens. Police are working to determine their ages.
The man's name isn't being released to protect the identities of victims. Mounties say he'll appear in Court in October. Until then he's been released under conditions not to have contact with the ...
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9/3/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
Workers staged a rally outside Vancouver's Westin Bayshore Hotel Thursday afternoon to protest an initiative they say is less about going green, than it is about making greenbacks. Unite Here Local 40 spokesperson Michelle Travis says the hotel's parent company, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide offers a 5 dollar food and beverage voucher to guests who decline getting their rooms cleaned for the day. She says the so-called 'green cards' short workers shifts, and are more harmful to the environment, "So when they go into one of these rooms much dirtier, what they're saying is they're using more water, more electricity and having to use additional chemicals in order to clean the room."
She says many hotel workers are struggling to make ends meet while Starwood is reporting strong earnings, and recently opened its one-thousandth hotel.
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9/3/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
Several hours after what should have been a minor collision at Main and 30th in Vancouver, dozens of people were stopping by to stare into a giant hole in the ground.
In the hole, about forty feet below...a car on its roof.
After colliding with an SUV in the intersection, it mounted the sidewalk, went through a fence and then plunged into a open construction site pit. Claudio Reid finished work on the site just hours before. He stopped by when he heard the news, "Thank God there is nobody hurt."
He says he was working where the car landed just this morning. Incredibly, the injuries to the driver are said to be minor.
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