Teens Plead Guilty To Drug Charges Relating To SSHS

Two teens pleading guilty to bringing illegal drugs to St. Stephen High School.

18-year-old Donald Torrance is charged with trafficking in marijuana and will be sentenced June 4th.

A 15-year-old boy charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking marijuana will be sentenced June 3rd in St. Stephen.



The teens were arrested April 24th as part of an investigation into illegal drugs being sold at St. Stephen High School.

Another 17-year-old who was arrested back in October for trafficking will also be sentenced on June 3rd.

Milltown Port Of Entry To U.S. Closed Until Fall

You may have noticed when crossing to the states -- you only have two options. Not three.

The Milltown Port of Entry to the U.S. in St. Stephen is now temporarily closed until Fall. Customs and Border Protection says one lane on the bridge is barricaded to allow for the demolition and reconstruction of a new port entry at that location.

Throughout the summer, the Ferry Point Bridge in downtown St. Stephen will remain open to passenger vehicles only, and the International Avenue "Third Bridge" is open to both passenger vehicles and commercial trucks.


CBP says the barricades will be up until September or October of 2013, and you can still cross back to Canada using the Milltown bridge.

Judge Calls Assault Sad And Chilling

An 18 year old man has been sentenced to 30 months federal time for his part organizing what the judge called a "sad and chilling" February assault in Glen Falls.

John Alexander Adams didn't argue that he was the key orchestrator of the attack, which the victim's father described as the precursor to "43 long, agonizing days in hell" as his son was hospitalized in a coma. The victim is recovering in a rehabilitation center but will suffer long-term problems with memory loss, exhaustion, and paranoia.

Adams and another young man who cannot be named lured the victim into a shed in the East Side suburb and hit him with a baseball bat, causing skull fractures and hemorrhaging. The judge told the court Adam's youth and lack of an adult record were mitigating factors in the sentence, with also requires his to submit a DNA sample and a lifelong weapons ban.

Open Letters To Doctors In The Province

As the New Brunswick Medical Society takes the province to court, Health Minister Ted Flemming is publishing an open letter to doctors telling them his door remains open to ideas that will achieve 20 million dollars in health care savings.
 
Flemming is telling the doctors each child born in the province is immediately saddled with a debt of more than 15 thousand dollars before he or she draws a breath.

He claims the financial situation is so dire, the health department had to present its spending plans to the bankers who will underwrite the province's debt and answer questions about how money will be saved. 

He's now saying those savings can be achieved without a medicare cap but there's no way workers in healthcare won't be affected since three-quarters of the health department's budget is made up of wages.