August 6 News...

Police confirm the woman found dead in a northeast home Sunday is Calgary's 21st muder of the year. Cops are not saying how 24-year-old Sarah Nicole Ray died, and nobody has been arrested in her death as of yet.  

A driving lesson gone wrong has left a Calgary woman dead. A woman who was learning to drive, shot out of a driveway, killing her sister who was supervising from the sidewalk. The victim has been identified as 24-year old Amandeep Brar. Her 4-year-old daughter suffered minor injuries in the incident as well.

R-C-M-P have seized a laptop computer that a 15-year-old Manitoba boy says he bought from the man accused in the Greyhound bus attack. Darren Beatty says he noticed a man sitting on a bench at the Greyhound station last Wednesday morning with a laptop computer next to him on the pavement with a `for sale' note on it -- and bought it for 60-bucks.  Police are checking the computer to see exactly what's on it.

The federal government is spending more than 100-million dollars to twin a treacherous stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who announced the money yesterday, says improving the 14-kilometre stretch of highway will help boost a key trade corridor between Alberta and BC, and make travelling more safe and efficient.

The Olympic flame is one step closer to its final destination.The Torch was greeted by huge crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the Beijing Summer Games.The flame will tour the city before arriving for Friday's opening ceremony..

And a new study says that out of all the world's currency, American money has the highest concentration of cocaine on it. [Now I'm kinda surprised by that.  I would have guessed saturated fat, not coke!!]