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NATIONAL NEWS

Provincial police Const. Vu Pham was shot and killed Monday after pulling over a pickup truck on a rural southwestern Ontario road. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ OPP- HO
Police officers arrive by the bus load for funeral of Ontario Const. Vu Pham
WINGHAM, Ont. - Police officers are arriving by the bus load for a slain officer's funeral in Wingham, Ont.
Provincial police Const. Vu Pham was shot and killed Monday after pulling over a pickup truck on a rural southwestern Ontario road. In the funeral program Pham's wife Heather says her husband was the love of her life.



SPORTS NEWS

Mercedes Grand Prix driver Michael Schumacher of Germany, left, and teammate Nico Rosberg of Germany, right, pose for photographers. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Gero Breloer)
Rosberg leads Bahrain practice for Mercedes; Schumacher 3rd as F1's title favourites stay top
SAKHIR, Bahrain - Nico Rosberg was fastest in Friday's practice for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, with teammate Michael Schumacher finishing third to put Mercedes at the front of the Formula One grid.
Rosberg set a quickest time of one minute 55.409 seconds to lead Lewis Hamilton of McLaren and Schumacher by just under half a second after two sessions.



BUSINESS NEWS

Two brokers are seen in front of the curve of the German stock index DAX at the stock market in Frankfurt, central Germany, Friday, March 12, 2010, when the DAX reached almost 6,000 points. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Michael Probst)
Toronto stock market little changed; Canadian dollar surges following jobs data
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market was little changed Friday morning at the end of a lacklustre week.
The S&P/TSX composite index gained 8.9 points to 11,988.6, finding support from base metals but held back by the tech sector.



ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Corey Haim is shown in a scene from
Authorities say Haim had 4 prescriptions, but nothing illegal found
LOS ANGELES - A coroner's official says authorities have recovered four prescription drug bottles bearing the name of Toronto-born actor Corey Haim but found nothing illegal while investigating his death.
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter declined Friday to identify the drugs. Haim was battling flulike symptoms in the days before his death.



HEALTH NEWS

series of X-rays taken by a CT scanner. Virtual colonoscopies are just one of the many costly medical tests that recent reports have said are being done too often. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ Courtesy of Dr. Perry J. Pickhardt/ University of Wisconsin Medical S
Rash of reports say too many Americans get too many medical tests despite risks
CHICAGO - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans - maybe even President Barack Obama - are being overtreated.
Is it doctors practising defensive medicine? Or are patients so accustomed to a culture of medical technology that they insist on extensive tests and treatments?