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• One person rescued from a snowmobile accident 16kms in on Logger School Road early Saturday

  BOISAR Search Manager Stephen Decker says about 15 members set up a staging area along the Trans Canada Highway, just west of Corner Brook.

• Second man charged in connection with drug and human trafficking in NL has been convicted

  RCMP Inspector David Emberley says they were both arrested by RCMP RNC JFO West near Howley where police seized close to a pound of cocaine and a prohibited handgun.  

• NL Liquor store customers have until the end of May to collect Air Miles; partnership ends after 20 years

  The corporation’s transition out of the program does not affect existing Miles earned or how they can be redeemed.

• Ivan Loder charged with first degree murder after a shooting in Grand Falls-Windsor this morning

  On Wednesday. a victim of another shooting in central was airlifted to St. John’s with serious injuries.

• Thousands of tax returns filed since 2015 with the help of volunteers and business students at Grenfell Campus

  It was started then by Professor Lynn Kendall and is known as the “Community Volunteer Income Tax Program.”