Snapple Snafu Ends With Stolen Delivery Truck
Kevin Simpkin, 27, sacked for swigging Snapple while stocking stores steals a Snapple delivery truck outside a Fair Lawn supermarket. The vehicle hits a hydro pole, veers toward New York City, and is stopped in Leonia. Simpkin and his 17-year-old nephew are held. Simpkin faces theft and receiving stolen property charges with $25,000 bail.
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N.J
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August Greiner
Fair Lawn
Hillsdale
New York City
Greiner
Kevin Simpkin
Brooks Man Dies In Dirt Bike Crash Near Tilley
A 19 year old Brooks man James Wayne Etheridge died after being thrown from his 1993 Suzuki dirt bike on a trail about 23 kilometres south of Tilley. He hit a bump and landed on his head while wearing a helmet. two other bikers were present at the scene. He died at the accident site.
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Tilley
James Wayne Etheridge
Grant Conrad
Brooks Rcmp
Etheridge
Shields
Man from Medicine Hat Wins 1.2 Million Lotto In Alberta
Lind, a 59 year old cement business owner, wins 1.2 million on a Lotto 6 49 ticket bought at Mac's store. He and his wife Marlene travel to Edmonton to collect the cheque and plan modest purchases and a possible Iceland trip.
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Carl Lind
Lind
Marlene
Mac
Vinced
Edmonton
Medicine Hat
Southeastern Health Unit
Iceland
the Hat
Crescent Heights
Canada deploys patrol boats against Belizean flagged trawler
Canada says patrol vessels confront a Belizean flag ship suspected of illegal turbot fishing off eastern Newfoundland. The vessel is seen as a front for Spain based ownership and crew, with a second Cen tral American flag ship involved. Fisheries spokeswoman Bonnie Mendell stresses actions fall under Canada's flag of convenience law, not the EU pact.
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Canada
Newfoundland
Bonnie Mendell
European Union
Grand Banks
Mendell
Hatters to vote on smoking in full election
Medicine Hat residents will decide on a public smoking bylaw during the October municipal election. The city will poll Hatters after the Medicine Hat Tobacco Coalition submitted a 7000 name petition, though it will not be binding and the bylaw could be proposed or rejected by council.
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Ken Sauer
Medicine Hat Tobacco Coalition
Larry Godin
Hatters
Sauer
Wayne Craven
Valerie Neigum
Thibault
Darlene Neigum
The
Heart and Stroke Foundation
Banks trim mortgage rates after buck's rally
Canadian banks reduce selected mortgage rates by up to 0.5 percentage points as the dollar weakens and markets shift. The Royal Bank of Canada leads with cuts across two to twenty five year mortgages citing improved currency stability, with Toronto Dominion and others following. Prime rate remains at 9.75 percent, Bank of Canada rate slides to 8.18 percent. The housing market gains modest relief despite ongoing high borrowing costs.
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Ottawa
U.S
Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto-Dominion
Weak dollar fuels Canadian tourism boom
Statistics Canada reports 14 million foreign visitors in February driven by a weak Canadian dollar. Americans took 1.1 million overnight trips to Canada, overseas travelers 317,000, and Americans made two million same day trips, the highest in eight years. Canadians cut domestic cross border trips to the U.S. by five percent to 2.9 million.
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Southam News
Ottawa
Canada
Statistics Canada
U.S
Brothers lungs to replace sister’s through transplant
Annick Tremblay a 21 year old from Saint Hilarion celebrates a birthday while awaiting a lifesaving operation. Her brothers Joel and Donald Tremblay will donate lobes from their lungs in a six hour transplant in Los Angeles funded by the province at about 500000 dollars. The surgery uses a right lobe from one brother and a left lobe from the other to replace Annick’s damaged lungs. Doctors say the lobes should fit her smaller frame and the operation has about a 75 percent success rate.
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Montreal
Annick Tremblay
Tremblay
Saint-Hilarion
Quebec City
Annick
Joel Tremblay
Donald
Joel
Hanni Shennib
Montreal General Hospital
Shennib
Los Angeles
Tremblays
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