A St. John's man was sentenced Friday to 13 months in jail after sending sexually explicit e-mails to a teenaged girl.

A man facing a first-degree murder charge over a slaying in western Newfoundland last month has been ordered to stay in a St. John's psychiatric hospital for another five weeks.

An investment adviser who defrauded his clients of more than $400,000 was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

Public sector pensioners in Newfoundland and Labrador have launched a new campaign for indexed pensions and better health benefits.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said Friday that fraud and other charges have been laid over a foreign education program.

A 22-year-old man is accused of filing up and taking off from a Goulds gas station. Michael Mark Chafe appeared in provincial court this morning on a charge of theft under $5,000 in relation to a gas-and-go incident at the Irving gas station on Main Road in Goulds.

A woman is facing charges after an overnight altercation with police. Cheryl Oliver, 39, is facing three charges this morning including assaulting a police officer and trying to take the officer’s weapon in the altercation.

Firefighters in St. John’s thought it was going to be a long night when they got a call about a structure fire on Southside Road shortly after midnight.

A man is in hospital and a woman was taken for questioning by police after a stabbing in St. John’s last night.

The St. John's byelection campaign, which has been rather tame up to this point, has generated its first scandal.

A former Eastern school board official has been charged with defrauding Korean exchange students. RNC say it involves the Newfoundland International Student Exchange Program.

A comfortable night's sleep means everything for Grade 8 student from IJ Sampson, Josh Tucker.. so much so, he has come up with an idea to make sure his bed is made perfectly. He and his business partner, Tyler Heffernan, have come up with "Sure Fit Superior Bed Sheets".

Eastern Health confirmed yesterday that one of the doctors who cares for diabetes patients has resigned and two nurses who work with the insulin pump program will retire this summer.

Municipal Youth Week continues in Mount Pearl today. The week of activities started last Sunday and tonight is hockey night in Mount Pearl where youth will gather at the Reid Centre to watch hockey and play games. The week ends with a food drive tomorrow.

A St. John's man has pleaded guilty to a charge of luring a child over the Internet. The 41 year old man who sent sexually explicit e-mails to a 15-year-old girl has been sentenced to a year in jail with three years probation.

Heather Power has an airline ticket bought to fly to Edmonton, Alberta. Her flight leaves June 12.

Fishermen will get $1.50 per pound of crab at the wharf for the rest of the season. At the request of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union, the crab pricing panel set the minimum price for the duration of the season rather than adjust the price every two weeks.

It could have caused a bad accident. Craig Haines says if he not noticed something unusual in the dumpster outside his business last week, someone could have been seriously hurt.

Two Gander residents are getting a close look at the floods devastating parts of New Brunswick. Des Dillon and his wife Jeanne, volunteers with Canadian Red Cross Disaster Services, have been in Saint John, N.

For many municipalities in this province, issuing three housing building permits is not exactly the spark that ignites a residential development explosion by any stretch of the imagination.

A new book published last week about disasters in Atlantic Canada also takes a look at two tragedies that took place in Gander.

Someone unfamiliar with the area might see Placentia in a different light in contrast to how the people who live here see Placentia.

A celebration of the political life of Avalon MP Fabian Manning was well-attended by supporters, friends and family along with fellow MPs Norm Doyle and Loyola Hearn as well as guest speaker for the evening, Peter McKay, Minister of National Defense and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA).

There were no major injuries on Sunday, May 4, when an older driver of a small vehicle smashed into a light pole near their driveway as they were pulling in to park.

The Charter would like to inform its readers that the next edition of The Charter, usually available on Mondays, will be available a day later next week because of the Victoria Day holiday.

Jessica Canning and Helen Whiffen scan the landscape. Together, they've been marking which graves are in the most urgent need of attention.

They said he could do it, and he didn't let them down.

When speaking with Sarah Lee, her sense of dedication is evident. Even though she had trouble learning to read and write, Ms.

It will be a special night to get together, and remember the hallowed halls of a school that many say they loved so much.

Participation in the Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Day in Bay Roberts was up by 50 per cent this year -- from 56 to 112.

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The Carbonear Town Council is writing Eastern Health about the family doctor shortage in the town. Council would like to know what the current prognosis is and what Eastern Health is doing to attract new doctors to the area.

Environment Minister Charlene Johnson told The Compass a couple of weeks ago the contract for the removal of PCB contaminated waste from the New Harbour dump site has not yet been let.

The writings here are based purely on memories of growing up in Spaniard's Bay, most of which I have personal knowledge of and some I have been told by friends and relatives.

A 55-year-old Botwood man was arrested and charged with possession of 2,250 cartons of contraband cigarettes.

While he was not one of the 13 non-unionized employees that were laid off from the AbitibiBowater mill, Bill Furey did leave a little earlier than expected.

There was a protest at the Central Regional Health Care Centre on Wednesday, but it was low-key.

Next week representatives from Buchans will sit down with the provincial ministers of health and environment to discuss the fact that no human health risk analysis has ever been completed on known areas of contamination since the closure of the ASARCo mines 26 years ago.

A Grand Falls-Windsor native has been named to a prestigious list of the most influential and accomplished people in the country.