Two men were spotted on a lawn tractor heading along Cow Bay Road in Eastern Passage, N.S., on Saturday afternoon. Police were called, and the driver has been charged with impaired driving.
In the four months before Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself, the former soldier was supposed to receive therapeutic help to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. But that never happened.
HALIFAX Health officials on Prince Edward Island are reporting no new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. P.E.I. currently has 28 active cases of COVID-19, the highest number of active infections the province has had, to date. The province has had 143 cumulative cases of the novel coronavirus. For the first time in the last year, there are actually more active cases in P.E.I. than in Nova Scotia, said Dr. Heather Morrison, P.E.I. s chief public health officer. I do remain concerned about our current COVID-19 situation. Morrison says provincial labs have received results of genetic sequencing for P.E.I. s recent COVID-19 cases.
HALIFAX A 27-year-old man from Halifax has been charged with assaulting a police officer after an incident in Moncton. Just before 5 p.m. on Saturday, the Codiac, N.B. RCMP responded to a report of a disturbance at a convenience store on Killam Drive in Moncton. Nearby, police found a man and woman they believe were involved. Officers identified the man as a person of interest in other investigations, and attempted to arrest him, but a struggle ensued. Police say the man then got into a nearby police car, and tried to drive it away, crashing into a second police vehicle that had just arrived.