BORDEN-CARLETON, P.E.I. - After just under 15 hours of swimming in 19-degree water, a Nova Scotia woman completed a marathon swim Saturday that took her from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick and back, all in less than a day.
One person died in a apartment fire in the Catawba County city of Newton late Saturday, but that's all police and fire department officials are saying. A fire department said the blaze that began about 10 p.m. at an apartment complex on West C Street downtown is "under investigation. That's all I can say." A police dispatcher did confirm there was one fatality in the blaze. The victim's
IT was a wonderful singing competition in Compostela town where I served as chairman of the five-man panel of judges. The task wasn t easy because all the 10 finalists (five each in both little and big divisions) were fantastic singers.
P remiership frontrunner Blake Shinn couldn't restrain fierce favourite Grand Commander while 3kg claimer Daniel Edmonds had trouble stopping Rednrich.
Tragedy has struck a family of five that set out last week for a boat trip through the Mackenzie Delta near Inuvik. RCMP said Saturday that the boat was swamped in rough waters on Thursday, and of the five, only a teenage boy survived.