A 27
year old Saint John mother is on trial charged with leaving her baby outside in the
cold alone last January along Paddock Street. The court was told the
baby was dressed for the weather with only her face exposed and appeared
to be no worse for wear.
Norma
Cusack, who lived across the street, testified it was more like 15 to 20
minutes from the time she heard a baby crying to the time when police
arrived.
Shea
maintains the baby was only outside for a few minutes while she took her
groceries inside along with her other young children.
When
Police got there, Constable Amy Cunningham told the court Shea came out
of the house dressed in a tee shirt, jeans and no shoes. Cunningham
believes Shea didn't realise her baby had been left outside after
telling her she had looked through the house twice for her baby who was 4
or 5 months old.
Propane
is still leaking from a railway tanker car behind Haymarket Square. Fire
crews are on scene working to isolate the leaking car and determine the
cause of the leak.
The call
initially came in about an hour ago. Workers on the One Mile
Interchange were evacuated as well as a number of buildings in the
immediate vicinity.
Due to concerns about the propane drifting
over the road, the east and westbound lanes of the highway are closed
until further notice from Crown St. to Ashburn Rd.
As 2013
winds down, Saint John Police Chief Bill Reid still has a New Year's resolution to
fulfill: an arrest in the investigation into the murder of Richard
Oland.
Reid
tells Tide News the Crown will be reviewing the file in the next month,
and then will come back with either a recommendation for further
investigation or the green light to lay charges. He says it's impossible
to magically declare "today's the day" when in fact a legal process has
to be followed, as everyone is aware.
Reid
says only a small amount of information is available to the public so
it's discouraging for some people when assumptions are made about the
lack of charges. At the same time, the Chief maintains the SJPD is
transparent in all of their operations, and he's confident at the end of
the day the police will be successful.
Getting
screened for cancer improves your odds dramatically--and some people in
the province will be taking advantage of a new screening program to
catch the disease early.
The province has announced a new program
beginning in early 2014 that will remind eligible individuals to get
screened and track who's been checked and who hasn't.
A program
has existed to screen for breast cancer since 1995--now colon and
cervical cancer screening will be added to the list. Colon cancer is the
third most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canada.
The $75
million dollar One Mile Interchange project, which will provide a direct
connection between Highway One and Bayside Drive, will be finished by
next month according to Tim O'Reilly of Traffic Services.
Truck
traffic headed to the industrial areas out east will be rerouted onto
the interchange---keeping it off city centre streets. There's going to
be plenty of new signage to direct drivers where to go.
The
province's energy utility bringing its companies together under one
umbrella. NB Power's Group of Companies are now one integrated Crown
Corporation as required by the Electricity Act.
That company is now solely responsible for generating, transmitting and distributing the province's electricity.
The
change means the Electric Finance Corporation which was created to deal
with debt is dissolved and the utility will take on $325-million in net
debt, and a new subsidiary, the NB Energy Marketing Corporation, will be
created.
President and CEO Gaëtan Thomas says the changes will help keep energy prices low and stable over the next decade.
In an
email, the City of Saint John letting us know their contract with the Investigative
Solutions Network regarding the Estabrooks investigation includes the
approval of funding in $100,000 increments beginning last October and
again in January and April of this year.
About $300,000 has
been spent so far and Common Council authorized another $100,000 just
over two weeks ago bringing the total approved amount to $400,000.
