The motion before council is sponsored by alderman Joe Mauro, who says there is growing pressure for Heatherington to leave her elected office.

Heatherington, a 40-year-old mother of three, has been embroiled in controversy ever since she disappeared earlier this summer while on a trip to Great Falls, Montana. When she turned up in Las Vegas three days later, she claimed to have been drugged, abducted and assaulted while she was missing.

Police in Canada and the U.S. dispute the story and have filed criminal charges.

She was charged with giving false information to the Montana police, and later accepted a deal that will see the charge dropped if she keeps out of trouble and gets psychological help.

In Alberta, the Crown will pursue a public mischief charge against the alderwoman, after reviewing results of an eight-month police investigation into allegations she was pursued by a stalker.

Police spent $17,000 and 500 hours investigating the claim before deciding no such stalker existed.

Heatherington could face up to five years in prison if convicted, as well as being disqualified from serving on council.

Ahead of the council meeting, Heatherington's husband Dave, said his wife will attend, adding she is not going to fade away quietly from council.

Heatherington returned to her duties on Lethbridge city council in late June after withdrawing an earlier request for an unpaid leave of absence.

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Whittaker was not home at the time, and Chief Deputy John Dailey said the death of Jesse Joe Tribble, 18, was not related to the burglary and was not a homicide. It may have been drug-related, Dailey said.

Judge Deborah Neal, 54, has been on paid leave since Aug. 16; she remains hospitalized for treatment of depression. She was among the patrons in a Kansas City, Kan., casino that was raided by authorities in April.

Dar Heatherington cried in court as she was handed the sentence for public mischief.

That evidence included letters, sexy lingerie and a computer disk with Ms. Heatherington's face pasted on photos of a woman performing various sex acts.

Armed men burst into the north Moscow arcade at about 6 a.m. and opened fire, the Interfax news agency reported. They killed a security guard and a customer, and seriously wounded the cashier.

Iorworth Hoare, the rapist, who has already been in jail for 36 years, has been moved from a low-security open prison to a high-security cell in another jail amid fears that he could be attacked by jealous prisoners.

But City of Lethbridge administrators found a section of the Municipal Government Act that said Heatherington's resignation took effect the day it was tendered – meaning her role on council ended Monday.

The 60-page filing, presented in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that the companies sell rights to web advertisements based on searches for terms such as "illegal gambling," "internet gambling" and "California gambling."

Mayor Bob Tarleck said the city isn't waiting to see if Dar Heatherington voluntarily resigns before it applies to court for her removal. A lawyer is "presently engaged in this case," Tarleck said.

The 40-year-old had signed a plea agreement that the misdemeanor charge would be dropped if she stayed out of trouble for a year and saw a psychiatrist.

Under the deal, the charge was to be dismissed if she provided proof she had seen a psychiatrist, paid court costs and stayed out of trouble for the full year.

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