Manitoba News

FERGUS FALLS — A jury deliberated for less than 90 minutes Friday before convicting two men on human smuggling charges in a case where a family from India froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border.

STONEWALL, MAN. — RCMP northwest of Winnipeg are investigating a suspicious death. They say officers were called Thursday morning to a report of human remains in a home in the Regional Municipality of Rockwood.

FERGUS FALLS — A prosecutor urged a jury Thursday to find two accused human smugglers guilty, saying the men cared more about money than people's safety and their actions led to the deaths of a family of four in a prairie blizzard.

WINNIPEG — Police in Winnipeg say they haven't been able to confirm reports earlier this week of a knife-wielding man at the University of Manitoba.

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg and Canadian basketball communities are mourning after Chad Posthumus, a founding player of the Canadian Elite Basketball League, died Wednesday at 33.

SWAN RIVER, Man. — A new police unit is to be set up in western Manitoba to investigate complex and serious crimes. The NDP government announced Thursday it would fund a portion of the pilot program in the town of Swan River.

ALTONA, MANITOBA, CANADA — Manitoba RCMP have issued an arrest warrant for an Ontario truck driver who was allegedly involved in a crash that killed a woman and an eight-year-old girl. Brampton, Ont.

WINNIPEG — Veteran kicker Sergio Castillo will be back with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers next season after signing a one-year deal with the CFL club Thursday. Castillo connected on 79.

FERGUS FALLS — Yash Patel had only been away from his native India for a few weeks when he was dropped off on the bald Canadian prairie in the middle of a nighttime blizzard and given vague instructions to walk in a straight line into the United Stat

FISHER BRANCH, Man. — Manitoba's police watchdog has cleared RCMP officers in the case of a man who died after he was taken into custody for public intoxication.