2009-04-28
07:49:59
Today is the annual "Day of Mourning" to remember workers injured or killed on the job.
Last year -- eleven people lost their lives in workplace accidents in this province while just over 12-thousand were injured.
At noon time today the Flags here in the border town and the province will be lowered to remember the workers who lost their lives.
2009-04-28
07:10:12
New Brunswick's chief medical officer of health says while a few people have displayed flu-like symptoms, there are no confirmed cases of swine flu in the province.
Doctor Eilish Cleary says samples from just a handful of people have been sent to the national laboratory in Winnipeg.
Cleary says those people had recently travelled to Mexico, but adds she'd be surprised not to be seeing some people sick after returning from their spring trips there.
She says there's no pandemic, and the swine flu cases in Canada and the United States have been very mild.
So far, the only known cases in Atlantic Canada involve four teenagers from King's-Edgehill School in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
(The Canadian Press)
2009-04-28
07:08:45
A huge haul of marijuana has been taken in by RCMP after a year long investigation. 600 plants and 20 pounds of dried bud were seized from a home on the Salmon Creek Road over the weekend. The dope was on it's way to Montreal and a man from La Belle Province and his girlfriend have been arrested.
55-year old Milan Beneda will remain locked up until a bail hearing in Sussex on Thursday. 45-year old Barbara Meres has been released with conditions. Both are facing charges of cult-ivation of marijuana as well as possession for the purpose of trafficking marijuana.
2009-04-28
07:07:31
R-C-M-P planning a funeral for an un-identified baby found alongside a road in say they're still looking for the boy's family.
A public funeral will be held Friday for the newborn, whose body was discovered near Salisbury on April 4th.
Since no family members have come forward to claim him, police have decided a funeral needs to be held so the child can be buried.
The Mounties will stand in for the baby's family.
The baby will be buried at a cemetery near where his body was discovered.
The Mounties haven't said if the baby was stillborn, killed after birth or abandoned while still alive.
