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Latasha Gosling and Landen Janayah

Victoria Henneberry: Blake Leggette pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and Victoria Henneberry pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree murder. ——— VIGIL TO PAY TRIBUTE TO SLAIN SASKATCHEWAN FAMILY A rural Saskatchewan community will host a candlelight vigil tonight to honour a mother and her three children who were killed in a murder-suicide last week, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The bodies of 27-year-old Latasha Gosling and her children — Jenika, Landen and Janayah — were found in their mobile home in Tisdale, northeast of Saskatoon. ——— B.C. REVIEW BOARD TO CONSIDER PARTIAL FREEDOM FOR KILLER DAD The issue of partial freedom for a man who murdered his three children is back before a British Columbia review board today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Dembeck Seven stories in the news today, April 29, from The Canadian Press: ——— SENTENCING SET FOR TODAY IN LORETTA SAUNDERS MURDER A sentencing hearing will be held in Halifax for two people who pleaded guilty to murdering Loretta Saunders, whose remains were found beside a New Brunswick highway. Doctors at the psychiatric hospital where Allan Schoenborn is being held recommend he be granted escorted day outings. Alexander Lisi and co-accused Jamshid Bahrami are charged with cannabis trafficking. Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible in 2010 for the deaths of his daughter and two sons in their Merritt, B.C., home two years earlier. ——— CLOSING SUBMISSIONS TODAY AT DRUG TRIAL OF ROB FORD'S DRIVER Closing submissions begin today in Toronto at the drug trial of former mayor Rob Ford driver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.