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A North Carolina Democratic progressive caucus leader has come under fire for declaring that allowing a Jewish caucus would “end” the party because “they control everything.” Ryan Jenkins, who is president of the state party’s progressive arm, took aim at the North Carolina Democratic Jewish Caucus after Democrats voted last week against recognizing the group as an affiliated organization, WFAE reported. “If the Democratic Party caves to it, that’s the end of the Democratic Party. We’re not Democrats, we’re the Jewish Caucus. We’re a Zionist group. Because they control everything,” he told the outlet Friday regarding the vote.

The father of a Calgary man suspected of killing his ex-wife in California said his son is innocent and he plans to offer a reward for the capture of her killer. In a written statement provided to the Calgary Herald on Friday, prominent Calgary architect Dan Jenkins said his son Ryan did not kill Jasmine Fiore, 28, whose mutilated body was found in a Los Angeles suburb on Aug. 15."I understand that the police department is making progress in the case and once I am in better shape I intend to offer a reward for the capture of her killer,"...

The ex-boyfriend of slain model Jasmine Fiore says he's glad the reality TV star accused of killing her is dead. "I was happy that Ryan... that he killed himself," Robert Hasman said on the "Today Show" Monday morning, alongside the murdered beauty's mother, Lisa Lepore. Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a contestant on the canceled VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was found dead from an apparent suicide in a motel room in suburban Canada Sunday night. The discovery came after nine days of searching for Jenkins following the discovery of Fiore's mutilated corpse on Aug. 15. "It brings closure to...

Here is a video report from The Today Show this morning about Reality TV star Ryan Jenkins being found dead, hanging in a British Columbia hotel room. He was a fugitive from police, wanted for the murder of his wife - model and aspiring actress Jasmine Fiore. She was found dead earlier this month. Here is a report on her death and her body being found in a dumpster . . . . (Watch Videos)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A reality show contestant wanted for murder in the gruesome death of his ex-wife was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide after hanging himself in a secluded Canadian motel, authorities said.

Police: Wanted reality TV star found dead Jenkins was accused of killing ex-wife before fleeing to Canada VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A reality show contestant wanted for murder in the gruesome death and mutilation of his ex-wife was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide after hanging himself in a secluded Canadian motel, authorities said. Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit says police responded to a call about a dead person in Hope, east of Vancouver, and then called investigators who were part of the massive manhunt for Jenkins. The real estate developer and...

Canadian police say fugitive murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead of an apparent suicide in a motel in British Columbia. Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit says police responded to a call about a dead person in Hope, east of Vancouver, and then called investigators who were part of the massive manhunt for Jenkins. The real estate developer and reality show contestant was wanted in California on first-degree murder charges after the mutilated body of his ex-wife was found near Los Angeles. Jenkins, 32, disappeared last week but his boat was found...

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Fugitive murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead in B.C. Jenkins was charged with murdering and mutilating his ex-wife Jasmine Fiore, in an apparent attempt to get away with the crime. Fiore’s fingers and teeth were removed — fingerprints and dental records are usually how homicide victims are identified — but the 28-year-old’s body was identified by the serial number on her breast implants. After an international manhunt and an apparent attempt to flee U.S. justice by returning to his native Canada, Jenkins apparently gave up his game of international hide-and-seek Sunday. His body was found in a hotel...

RCMP is reporting that murder suspect Ryan Jenkins, suspected in the murder of Playboy model Jasmine Fiore, has been found dead...

Cops in Canada Saturday stepped up their search for a reality star accused of brutally strangling his swimsuit model ex-wife, then removing her fingers and teeth and stuffing her mutilated body into a suitcase. Royal Canadian Mounted Police scoured the areas around Vancouver and British Columbia Saturday evening for Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a VH1 reality contestant who fled to the country late last week as cops pursued him in the murder of blonde beauty Jasmine Fiore. "We're leaving no stone unturned, but we have to play our cards close to our chest right now," Sgt. Duncan Pound told the Associated...

Murdered playboy model Jasmine Fiore was texting former lover Murdered Playboy model Jasmine Fiore had been exchanging text messages with a former boyfriend saying she wanted to meet him in Las Vegas in the hours before she was killed. Philip Sherwell, New York 22 Aug 2009 [Pic in URL] Lisa Lepore, second from right, mother of former model Jasmine Fiore, is comforted by unidentified family friends at news conference at the Buena Park City Hall, in a Buena Park Miss Fiore's short-lived husband and reality TV contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins is wanted in connection with her death after her mutilated...

Police Scour Canada for Millionaire Murder Suspect ASSOCIATED PRESS August 22, 2009 BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Canadian authorities on Saturday intensified the manhunt for the millionaire reality TV star accused of murdering a former swimsuit model and stuffing her naked, mutilated body in a suitcase. ''We're leaving no stone unturned, but we have to play our cards close to our chest right now,'' said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Duncan Pound. The search for Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a 32-year-old real estate developer and investor from Calgary, is centered around Vancouver and British Columbia, said Peter Van Loan, Canada's public...

A passenger on a flight from Vancouver that was taken into custody at a Toronto airport late Friday night is not fugitive reality-TV actor Ryan Jenkins, police say. Peel Regional Police Staff Sgt. Keith Brodie told Global News that a man from Vancouver who was detained at Toronto's Pearson International Airport at about 11:30 p.m. was confirmed, through fingerprints, to not be Ryan Jenkins. A passenger on the plane, who only wanted to be identified as Susan, told Global News that 10 armed police officers came on board after the plane landed in Toronto. "When we landed at 11:30 p.m.,...

Ryan Alexander Jenkins, wanted in the murder of model Jasmine Fiore, led authorities on a high-speed boat chase several miles off the coast near Blaine, Wash., law enforcement sources told The Times today. Authorities tracked Jenkins to a marina in Blaine on Wednesday night and came upon his car and empty boat trailer, the sources said, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because it was an ongoing investigation. The engine of the car was still warm and the U.S. Coast Guard was alerted. A Coast Guard cutter came upon a speed boat several miles off the...

U.S. Marshals offer $25K rewardA district attorney's office spokeswoman says that an ex-model found dead in a suitcase and missing her fingers and teeth was identified through her breast implants. Jasmine Fiore, 28, was identified using the serial number from her implants because detectives couldn't use fingerprints or dental records, said spokeswoman Farrah Emami on Friday. The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information on Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a reality TV show contestant who was charged Thursday with Fiore's murder and may have fled to his native Canada. Fiore's nude body was found in...

Police believe that Ryan Alexander Jenkins killed Jasmine Fiore and fled to Canada, where a manhunt is underway. Her body was found Aug. 15 in a suitcase in a trash bin in Buena Park.A reality TV show contestant allegedly removed the fingers and teeth of the swimsuit model he killed before putting her in a suitcase and dumping her in a Buena Park trash bin, authorities said Thursday as they issued an arrest warrant for the suspect. Police believe that Ryan Alexander Jenkins, who was a contestant on two VH1 reality shows, fled to Washington state and crossed the border...

Murder charges were filed Thursday against a reality TV contestant whose model-ex wife was found strangled in a Dumpster. Now all cops have to do is find Ryan Alexander Jenkins, who has been on the lam since Saturday and is believed to have hot-footed it across the border into Canada. More details about the grisly murder of 26-year-old Jasmine Fiore were expected to be revealed later by prosecutors in Orange County, Calif., and by police in the city of Buena Park, where she was found. The developments came amid revelations that Jenkins beat up a former girlfriend in Calgary and...

Authorities in the United States and Canada intensified their search today for a reality TV show contestant named by police as a "person of interest" in the case of a 28-year-old swimsuit model whose dead body was discovered stuffed into a suitcase and dumped into a Buena Park trash bin. The dragnet is centered on Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a 32-year-old real estate developer from Calgary, Canada. A source close to the investigation said Jenkins married swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore in Las Vegas a few months ago and reported her missing on Saturday. Jenkins operates Skyhomes in Calgary, which sells million-dollar-plus...