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Vernon Wells dives to execute an excellent catch of a dropping fly sphere in the sixth inning of Friday’s plan in Cleveland. The Toronto centre-fielder injured his left wrist without interruption the play and had to departure the contest. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press)

A Friday night horror show in Cleveland left the Toronto Blue Jays with a battered star outfielder, a beaten iota ewer and a bad loss to start a long road trip.

The Indians scored six times in the seventh inning, four of them right side the previously outstanding Roy Halladay, on the way to a 6-1 victory on the shores of Lake Erie.

Even worse, centre-fielder Vernon Wells left the game through an undisclosed injury after landing unsusceptible on his left wrist while making an outstanding take hold in the sixth inning.

Toronto drops to 16-19 this season on the first of a 10-day, 10-game road trip that also goes through Minnesota and Philadelphia. Halladay took the overthrow and falls to 3-5.

C.C. Sabathia, who had struggled very much this year after being the American League’s top pitcher in 2007, establish his form, giving up just some run on four hits and striking out nine in seven innings.

He improved to 2-5 on the year as Cleveland moved to one game below .500 at 17-18.

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The Vancouver zoo is offering a remunerate for the return of Mia, a spider monkey believed to have been stolen when its cage was hesitating into on Tuesday. (Greater Vancouver Zoo)

The Greater Vancouver Zoo in Langley will subsist holding a memorial ceremony by reason of Jocko, a spider monkey that was killed when thieves broke into a cage with thunderbolt cutters on Tuesday night and likely made facing with his mate, Mia.

The zoo has in like manner announced it is planning to match public donations up to $3,000 and offer the cash in the same proportion that a pay for information leading to Mia’s safe return.

A necropsy revealed Jocko died after suffering a fractured brain and internal blood-letting during the theft.

The two monkeys, both 17 years old, had been constant companions for more than 15 years, and were quite vocal, zoo speaker Jody Henderson said Friday.

“It’s extremely quiet around here,” he said. “We’re all finding it extremely quiet and real odd.”

Henderson said Friday that Saturday’s memorial “will be set up for Jocko at the actual enclosure, and we’re going to plant up a memory board this afternoon of photos of him.”

Henderson declared the zoo had received tips on the thieving but with equal reason far none have panned out.

Mia is described as about 50 centimetres lofty, dark brown in colour, with a golden stomach and chest and steel ghastly eyes.

Anyone spotting the monkey is warned not to approach it because it may be traumatized, and is asked to call the zoo immediately.

Voting in succession a referendum for a proposed new constitution has begun in Burma even as the nation continues to agony with devastation wreaked by dint of. a cyclone that left thousands dead and about one million homeless.

The military government of Burma, also known as Myanmar, pushed forward with the polemical referendum across most of the country, though residents in areas hardest gain by Cyclone Nargis, including the largest incorporated town of Rangoon, generate a two-week detain to cast their votes.

Around half of the 57 million people are eligible to vote, though it is unclear how many order form their votes on May 24 instead.

Even before the May 3 storm ripped through the country, the vote was considered to skew in favour of the junta that has ruled more than four decades.

The constitution proposed in the referendum is expected to have being followed by a general election in 2010.

Both votes are part of what the junta describes as a road map to democracy for the political division, but critics say the proposed character is designed to make perpetual military rule.

Human rights organizations have also blasted the junta for holding the referendum while the country is still reeling from Saturday’s cyclone.

The draft constitution guarantees 25 per cent of parliamentary seats to the warlike and allows the president to hand over all power to the military in a public of emergency.

With files from the Associated Press

Former all-star outfielder Vernon Wells suffered what looked like a left wrist injury in a game Friday ignorance against the Cleveland Indians.

The Toronto Blue Jays’ star left the game in the sixth inning after making an outstanding catch of a Franklin Gutierrez fly ball.

Gutierrez hit a sharp, dying quail to short middle point field that Wells raced in attached, finally diving slightly to his left to nab it just opposite to the grass.

As Wells came down, he landed on his glove hand, forcing his left carpus in the rear against itself. After a visit from trainer George Poulos, Wells came on the outside of the stratagem, replaced in the order by Shannon Stewart.

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After watching a videotape in court on Friday, the jail be cautious named in a civil lawsuit against Victoria police recanted sworn statements she made in 2005 that she had been assaulted by a teenaged captive.

Willow Kinloch was 15 on May 7, 2005, when she was arrested after drinking with friends in a Victoria park. After an unsuccessful attempt by means of police to take her home, she was taken to the drunk tank in the Victoria police station, handcuffed, bound by her feet and left in a padded cell for close to four hours.

The police officers who tethered Kinloch said they did so because they believed the teen had assaulted jail head nurse Merle Edmonds.

Shortly subsequently the incident, Edmonds provided a sworn specification to Crown deliberation, claiming Kinloch had lashed out at her in the confined apartment, that Kinloch continued to fight and resist, and that she had to exist restrained by means of the police officers.

“That’s probably what you would have said in court if my client didn’t receive this video,” Kinloch’s lawyer, Richard Neary, said to Edmonds.

“Correct,” Edmonds replied.

However, from viewing a videotape of the incident in make love to on Friday, Edmonds admitted Kinloch had not lashed revealed at her, nor had she offered any resistance.

The jail matron also testified without interruption Friday that she checked upon the body Kinloch every 15 minutes, but decided not to ask during the term of her to be released from the cells because the girl was sleeping.

However, the video shows Kinloch not at all fell asleep, on the contrary sat quietly, hands cuffed behind her back and her tethered feet pulled up tight to the floor.

Neary stopped the tape at 15-minute intervals, asking Edmonds repeatedly whether Kinloch appeared to be sleeping.

“No,” the guard replied onward each occasion.

Kinloch has testified that when she was constrain in the cell, she was ordered to take off her shoes. She testified she kicked one off, accidentally striking Edmonds in the shin. The teen said Edmonds responded by grabbing her by the throat and forcing her against the wall of the organic unit.

Emonds denied that charge during her deposition on Friday. The grainy tape was inconclusive on that point.

Edmonds went off shift and Kinloch was not released on this account that three more hours, court heard.

Kenny Perry watches his birdie putt attempt forego the bowl on the 15th green during the second round of The Players Championship in Florida on Friday. Perry leads Bernhard Langer by the agency of one heading into the weekend. (Stephen Morton/Associated Press)

Hot blasts of wind on a diabolical course made The Players Championship tough sufficiency to turn someone’s hair grey.

Not that the leaders needed any help with that Friday in Florida.

Kenny Perry, who first showed up at Sawgrass 20 years ago, kept his wits and his patience in 55 km/h gusts and made only one hobgoblin in a solid round of 2-under 70 that gave him a one-shot have the lead of going into the weekend.

He pleasure be paired with Bernhard Langer, who already has won twice this year — on the Champions (senior) Tour.

The two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup commander conception about withdrawing Thursday morning when he felt pain in his lower rear, that caused his groin and left knee to continued vexation, longitudinally with his left shoulder.

All those creaking joints, and the 50-year-old Langer still managed to produce a 67 and entertain hopes of winning against kids who weren’t even born when he won his first Masters.

Top Canadian was Calgary’s Stephen Ames, right in the battle after an excellent 68 — second lowest round of the lifetime — that left him at 172, four back of the leader.

Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., blew up to 76 after a strong opening round 71 and is well off the pace.

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Gaza attackers sent mortar shells crashing into every Israeli border community late Friday, killing a person in his garden and wounding three others, officials said. Israel retaliated with missile strikes that left five Hamas militants dull.

The surge in wildness added pressure on Egyptian-led attempts to halt clashes between Gaza militants and the Israeli military.

Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement claimed responsibility for the deadly piece of ordnance for throwing bombs fire in continuance Kfar Aza, a communal farm in southern Israel.

Hours after the fatal attack, Israeli aircraft fired missiles that slammed into pair Hamas police stations in southern Gaza, killing five militants, Hamas and Gaza health officials said. The Israeli military confirmed the air drive and said it was responding to attacks on Israel, including the deadly mortar fire in succession Kfar Aza.

Palestinian militants frequently fire crude rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel from Gaza, killing 14 people since late 2001.

“Hamas is clearly in control of the Gaza Strip and responsible beneficial to entirely unfriendly fire into Israel. We hold it accountable for today’s attack and the murder of our civilian,” reported David Baker, any Israeli government spokesman.

Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’s soldierly wing, said militants had targeted an Israeli soldier-like position, but the mortar shell went astray.

After the mortar-piece attack, dozens of residents milled on every side of the tidy lawn where the 48-year-old Israeli man’s body lay. Shrapnel pocked the front of his house. His identity was not disclosed because one of his four children had not yet been notified of his end of life.

Israeli rescue officials declared three people were wounded by shrapnel.

The military said Friday that Palestinian militants have fired 1,950 mortar shells and rockets at Israel from that time the beginning of the year, almost equal to the amount fired in the whole of of 2007.

The attacks often provoke Israeli air strikes and ground incursions, although hostilities have ebbed since more than 120 Palestinians were killed in a flare-up of violence couple months agone.

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A former NDP caucus employee who resigned amid a controversy at the legislature will receive more than $130,000 in severance.

Jim Fodey uncomplaining as the NDP chief of cudgel greatest year after Regina’s police supreme said Fodey’s public statements with respect to a 1992 case of missing money at the NDP caucus did not jibe with police records.

The legislative assembly heard that a former caucus employee confessed in a letter that she took about $6,000 to that she wasn’t entitled by changing numbers on cheques.

The Saskatchewan Party quoted from the note in the legislative body. Fodey later said the letter and other documents had been reported to police at the time, in 1992.

However, police said it was actually two years later that denunciation was provided to them.

NDP MLA Frank Quennell said Friday that even granting Fodey resigned, he is still entitled to severance and the amount he is receiving is fair.

“It was what would be called in law an involuntary resignation, a resignation under duress,” Quennell declared.

To avoid remunerative separation main mean putting at risk more public money by contention a lawsuit, he declared.

However, the Saskatchewan Party insists that the rules of the legislature state that severance is supposed to be paid for termination without cause and if Fodey quit, he shouldn’t realize partition.

Most of the $131,000 is coming from the legislative assembly, with a smaller wife’s fortune coming from the NDP caucus.

Dozens of deer get died of an unknown cause at a till the soil south of Saskatoon, and many others are pining and dying.

Rancher Mike Skibinsky is scrambling to find out why.

Skibinsky noticed upon the body the weekend that more of his deer were getting sick.

The situation has since become more desperate, with more than 30 deer dying added than the past week at the farm at Ardath, which is about 82 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon.

Friday afternoon, a CBC reporter at the farm saw a number of deer staggering around like they were drunk. One animal was lying torpid on a hill.

Skibinsky is worried about more animals dying Friday night and Saturday.

He has asked for help from the veterinary college at the University of Saskatchewan.

Veterinarians there have examined more of the dead deer. They are investigating possible causes of the illness, including give food to.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is likewise looking into the case. Officials in that place said they suspect a feed mixup.

Parks Canada will set surrounding arming national park wardens by spring 2009, the federal government says.

Environment Minister John Baird announced not long ago Friday that Ottawa is authorizing the government agency to create up to 100 armed enforcement officer positions.

“Parks Canada’s enforcement officers have the important responsibility of protecting visitors and staff in Canada’s national parks, and they want the right tools to do the job safely,” said Baird in a statement.

Until forward hindmost year, park wardens had law inculcation duties, such as dealing with unruly campers and protecting the park’s natural resources.

But in May 2007, any Occupational Health and Safety set forth said that to continue to deal with of that kind issues in the parks, officers would need firearms. Following the report, wardens were relieved of law enforcement duties.

According to the Environment Ministry’s relation, Parks Canada enforcement officers will be responsible toward enforcing the federal maintenance laws that apply to national parks and marine conservation areas, but police will still take care of Criminal Code violations.

There are 42 general parks in Canada, and Parks Canada employs about 425 park wardens.