Friday January 4th 2019
Mainly cloudy, chance of flurries or showers & 3
A suspect is in custody after a standoff yesterday where a man was barricaded inside an apartment with a knife. Police were called to the disturbance at Alderney Manor, a multi-storey complex in downtown Dartmouth. A 77 year old man was arrested around 10PM and there were no reports of any injuries.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/standoff-ends-in-dartmouth-man-in-custody-1.4965727
RCMP have arrested a 25 year old man and are searching for 2 other suspects after a drive by shooting in Churchville, a community south of New Glasgow. Police were called early yesterday morning after 3 men in a grey, 4-door pickup truck fired a long gun at a residence as they drove past. There were 3 people in the home at the time, but none were injured.
Halifax Harbour Bridges is looking for ways to keep oversized vehicles and trucks out of the wrong toll booth lanes. Over the past year there have been 14 incidents of vehicles getting stuck in the booth lanes on the Dartmouth side of the MacKay Bridge. The most recent incident happened Wednesday, when the trailer of a Pete’s Fine Food truck became stuck under the toll plaza’s concrete canopy.
HOT SPORTS
NHL
MIN 4 – TOR 3
BOS 6 – CGY 4
MTL 2 – VAN 0
NBA
SA 125 – TOR 107