News Items tag as: Jacob Setah

Jurors in Kamloops inquest make recommendations, hug family of 'happy child'
April 15, 2016 - 7:42 AM

'WE ASSUMED THAT... HE WAS UNDER THE BEST CARE AND THAT WASN'T THE CASE.'
RCMP Taser was functioning normally when teen jumped to his death at Kamloops hospital: investigator
April 14, 2016 - 2:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - A Taser used to subdue a patient who escaped from the psychiatric ward in Kamloops was functioning normally, according to an independent investigator tasked to review RCMP conduct after the patient fell from a three-storey parking garage and later died from his injuries.
Taser failed to subdue mentally ill man before he jumped three storeys to death
April 12, 2016 - 4:30 PM

KAMLOOPS - The officer in charge of a tense scene involving a psychiatric patient who later fell from Royal Inland Hospital’s parking structure said an RCMP constable's Taser failed to subdue the 18-year-old man.
Teen sought help for mental illness before he died, Kamloops inquest hears
April 11, 2016 - 2:58 PM

KAMLOOPS - Family members say the 18-year-old subject of a coroner's inquest showed signs of serious mental illness before he died after an altercation with Kamloops RCMP.
Coroner's inquest set to examine teen's death at Kamloops hospital
March 01, 2016 - 12:48 PM

KAMLOOPS - An inquest will look into the events that led up to death of a young man after he plummeted from the parkade at Royal Inland Hospital.
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LETTER: Tara Armstrong’s disparaging rhetoric has no place in leadership
OPINION Dear Editor, Tara Armstrong’s decision to leave the BC Conservative Party is her own, but her continued use of derogatory language to attack her perceived opponents — especially the majority

iN VIDEO: After years of winter damage, optimistic outlook for peach crop at Vernon orchard
Peach trees at Davison Orchards in Vernon are looking healthy without any bud damage coming out of the winter months after suffering major cold weather damage for three years in a row. The orchard grows several varietals of apples, pears an

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

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

Jurors in Kamloops inquest make recommendations, hug family of 'happy child'