An 18-year-old teenage boy is dead after a stabbing early this morning.
Saint
John Police Force were called to 348 Prince Street West around 4:30
this morning. Police say there was a home invasion where two young men
had been stabbed.
Both the 18-year-old and a 21-year-old man were
sent to hospital. The 21-year-old is in stable condition and is
undergoing medical treatment.
Police do not believe this is a random act and say the two knew each other.
Anyone
with any information regarding this incident is asked to contact the
Saint John Police Force at 648-3333 or Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477.
A man accused of killing his 16-year-old cousin has been found guilty of first degree murder.
The
jury delivered its verdict today after deliberating late Friday and
Saturday morning in the case of Curtis Bonnell, who had pleaded not
guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Hilary Bonnell.
The
32-year-old Bonnell had testified that he woke up from a night of
drinking and drugs on Sept. 5, 2009, to find his cousin dead in his
pickup, but he insists he doesn't know how she died.
He says he panicked and buried her body in a wooded area in Tabusintac.
When
the trial opened six weeks ago, Crown attorney Bill Richards told the
jury that Bonnell held Hilary against her will, sexually assaulted her
and killed her.
He said Bonnell buried her body near an old firing range to avoid detection.
Courtesy of The Canadian Press.
The
President of the Maritime Bus Network is confident he can make a go of
intercity bus service in the region where Acadian had trouble. Mike
Cassidy concedes there are challenges.
He says ridership in New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia used to be in 2005 close to 500,000 passenger
trips where now it's about 250,000 passenger trips.
Cassidy
tells Tide News university students are being asked what kind of service
they would like to have along with promotions, pricing incentives,
changing the schedules and making the transfers more seamless will build
up ridership.
Everyone's
heard of "The World's Greatest Magician", Harry Houdini--but did you
know he had a major connection to the Port City?
Bruce
MacNab is the authour of The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry
Houdini. He tells Tide News the great escape artist came to Saint John
as a young man and stayed here for a period of eleven days.
Houdini
and his wife, Bessie, were traveling with the Marco Magic Company and
stayed in what is now the Admiral Beatty in 1896. According to McNab, it
was here in Saint John at the city's Lunatic Asylum that Harry Houdini
first encountered the straight jacket which was later incorporated into
his most famous escape routine. Houdini challenged the Saint John Police
Force to find a device that could restrain him. He managed to escape
from a special leather restraint known as the Dreaded Saint John Maniac
Cuff, although it took him several minutes.
Houdini also traveled extensively throughout Nova Scotia in the same period.
He died 86 years ago this week, on Halloween 1926.
Bruce MacNab's book on his early life in Atlantic Canada is available from Goose Lane editions
here, at the New Brunswick Museum in Market Square, and select local bookstores
Kids have been having Teddy's boo boos fixed at the Regional's Teddy Bear Fair for 21 years.
Regional Hospital Foundation Director Victoria Clarke tells Tide News when kids come through it has a lasting impact.
She
says if the child has to go to the hospital the next time for any kind
of specimen collection they know its quick with a slight pinch and over.
Kids will notice a fire truck, ambulance and police car at the main doors of the Regional.
The entertainment includes Bernard the Magician and Kidsing and the kids can choose a healthy lunch for themselves.
The
Irving Oil Teddy Bear Fair is free but you do need to bring a Teddy
Bear and it runs tomorrow at the Regional Hospital from 9am to 3pm.
Fall back and spring forward!
It's that time of year again, where you get an extra hour sleep but the days get a bit darker.
Sunday you'll
get an extra snooze as you move your clock back one hour as the time
changes to Standard Time. The time change will take effect at 2:00 am.
The province is also reminding you to make sure your smoke alarm batteries are working as well.
A strong part of Canada before it was even a country.
The
New Brunswick History Society will host a black history and genealogy
event at the Atrium in Market Square recognizing and sharing our
province's rich black history.
President
of the New Brunswick Black History Society David Peters tells Tide news
our history starts before Canada became a nation, when blacks arrived
here in 1783 as free loyalists. Peters says African-Canadians have
served in WW1, WW2, Korean wars, and have reached some high positions.
He says when he was young no one would hire him here in the province, so
he moved to receive education and get a job. He said the same was for
business and trade workers. He says although that doesn't exists today,
once you move and start a family, you stay where your kids are.
The
free event from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm will feature displays from PRUDE
(Pride of Race, Unity, Dignity by Education), Kings Landing, a
genealogists, and the Black History Society.
Two men in their early twenties are in hospital after a stabbing on the west side in Saint John.
Saint John City Police say they were called to a private residence on Prince Street just before 5:00 am.
One of the men has serious injuries.
