The fate of three Montrealers accused of killing four family members is now in the hands of the jury after the trial judge finished giving his instructions on Friday.

A Winnipeg judge must decide what to do with a court bid by the Manitoba government to quash a lawsuit by the family of Brian Sinclair, a homeless man who died after waiting 34 hours in a hospital emergency room in 2008.

Lawyers for Cyndy Vanier, an Ontario woman detained in Mexico over an alleged plot to smuggle members of Libya's Gadhafi family into the country, have appeared before a judge to demand her immediate release.

A judge was to question would-be jurors as jury selection begins in earnest today at the Chicago trial of the man accused of murdering singer and Oscar winning actress Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew.