Category: Sydney

Homicide Reward

The murder of Donald Jermaine Stephenson in Halifax has been added to Nova Scotia’s rewards program for major unsolved crimes.

The 21-year-old Stephenson was shot to death when a gunman wearing a skull mask burst into his home in October 2010.

Justice Minister Mark Furey says families deserve closure when they lose a loved one to violence and he’s joining police in asking anyone with a tip about Stephenson’s death to come forward.

The reward program offers up to 150-thousand dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for his and other homicides.

7th Right Whale Death

For the seventh time in recent weeks, a North Atlantic right whale has been found dead, floating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The Marine Animal Response Society’s Tonya Wimmer says it’s not immediately clear what caused the death of the endangered whale.

She says the Canadian Coast Guard found the badly decomposed whale off the Magdalen Islands.

Six other such whales were found floating lifeless in roughly the same area last month, and tests have determined two may have been killed by ship strikes and the third was caught in fishing gear.