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Police in southern New Brunswick are asking for the public’s help as they search for a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.
The Saint John Police Force says 26-year-old Dylan McNamara was serving a four-year sentence for armed robbery, assault with a weapon, possession of a dangerous weapon, uttering threats and assaulting a peace officer.
The warrant was issued after he failed to return to the Community Correctional Centre in Saint John, breaching the conditions of his statutory release.
McNamara is described as six-foot-three, 187 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes — and he has a distinctive scar on his left cheek and neck.
(The Canadian Press)
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Environment Canada says parts of New Brunswick could see 10 to 20 centimetres of snow later this week.
The weather agency’s forecast says snow is expected to begin early Thursday morning in the northwest and spread to the northeast by the afternoon before snowfall ends in the evening.
Temperatures are expected to be near zero in low-lying or coastal areas.
Environment Canada warns of potentially dangerous driving conditions and utility outages.
(The Canadian Press)
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A suspicious house fire in central New Brunswick has claimed the life of one man and injured another.
R-C-M-P say the fire in Coal Creek was reported Saturday around 6 a-m.
Mounties from Chipman and Minto responded to the scene on Route 10.
Officers found the body of an 83-year-old man inside the destroyed home, and a 53-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
(CTV News)
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Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Zach Churchill is seeking a judicial recount in the Yarmouth riding.
Churchill narrowly lost the riding in last Tuesday’s provincial election by just 14 votes to Progressive Conservative Nick Hilton.
An automatic recount is also required in the Annapolis riding because the difference between the top two candidates was less than 10 votes.
Tory David Bowlby nipped Liberal incumbent candidate Carman Kerr by only seven votes.
(The Canadian Press)
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A Nova Scotia woman is frustrated with the province’s health system after waiting three years for an M-R-I that showed a brain tumour.
A doctor at a hospital eye clinic referred Marina Atwell for the diagnostic imaging in June 2021 after an eye test found that one of her eyes was significantly weaker than the other.
Three years later, an M-R-I located a benign brain tumour that is two centimetres long.
While Atwell’s condition is stable and there are no plans to remove the tumour, she tells C-B-C News she is concerned that it took so long to get the crucial diagnostic test.
(CBC News)
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(NL-Smallwood-Bowtie)
Someone has purchased a bow tie that belonged to Newfoundland and Labrador’s first premier.
A polka-dotted bow tie belonging to Joey Smallwood was sold for four-thousand-one-hundred dollars yesterday by Bartlett Auctions.
The buyer beat out 73 other bids for the framed piece of fashion and political history.
Smallwood had a fondness for bow ties and thick black glasses, and the Bartlett Auctions website says the coveted artifact was acquired from his estate.
(The Canadian Press)
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