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The trial of a South Shore doctor accused of prescribing 50,000 pills to a patient is set to begin today.
Doctor Sarah Dawn Jones will stand trial on drug-trafficking charges in Bridgewater provincial court.
When charges were laid about a year ago, Bridgewater police said Jones wrote the prescription for oxycodone and oxyneo pills over a one-year period.
A 63 year old Milford man is facing charges after a ten hour standoff with police.
It started Saturday afternoon with a man threatening to burn down a house on Bayberry Drive, telling fire fighters he had a gun and threatening police.
A Crisis Negotiator finally talked him into giving up peacefully early yesterday morning. The RCMP seized a 22 calibre rifle and took the man into custody on a number of charges. Nobody was hurt.