News Items tag as: assault

Jessie Simpson's mom publishing book about son's near fatal attack
August 25, 2024 - 6:00 AM

It has been nine years since Jessie Simpson was brutally beaten with a baseball bat by Kristopher Teichrieb, leaving him with permanent brain damage and a lifetime of confinement to a wheelchair.
Suspects wanted in back alley assault in Kamloops
March 10, 2021 - 12:26 PM

Police are looking for suspects and witnesses after a back alley assault in Kamloops.
West Kelowna car wash assault suspect arrested and charged
July 17, 2019 - 3:15 PM

WEST KELOWNA - A Kelowna man has been charged in connection with an assault earlier this week that left a victim with serious injuries.
West Kelowna assault near car wash sends victim to hospital
July 16, 2019 - 12:34 PM

WEST KELOWNA - West Kelowna police are looking for witnesses of an early morning Tuesday assault that sent a man to hospital.
Unprovoked assault by career criminal gets federal time
September 24, 2015 - 3:35 PM

PENTICTON - A Penticton man will do some serious jail time for a vicious, unprovoked attack that left his victim scarred for life.
Rock-in-sock attacker loses appeal
January 30, 2015 - 2:37 PM

PENTICTON - A man convicted of two years less a day for a vicious attack on a Penticton man will serve his full sentence after losing his appeal this week.
Vernon judge comes down hard on missionary's 'corrective' child beatings
December 16, 2014 - 7:30 PM

“WHEN CONDUCT BASED ON RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IS CONTRARY WITH THE CRIMINAL CODE OF CANADA, THE CRIMINAL CODE MUST PREVAIL”: JUDGE
Suspect in assault released, arrested again
December 08, 2014 - 6:36 PM

PENTICTON - A Penticton man arrested last week for roughing up a resident in his own home was arrested just a few days later for breaching his probation and allegedly harrassing another resident.
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No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

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