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VOCM News Late-Day Update September 11th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, I'm Brian Medore. Dean Penny, convicted of first-degree
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  Speaker 2: murder in the death and disappearance of his estranged wife,
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Hillier Penny, in December 2016, was handed a mandatory
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  Speaker 2: life sentence in Cornerbrook Supreme Court this morning. Penny, who
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  Speaker 2: long maintained his innocence, was found guilty by a jury
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  Speaker 2: in May. Penny's trial focused on evidence gathered in a
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  Speaker 2: so-called Mr. Big sting. The conviction comes with a mandatory
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  Speaker 2: life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Hillier Penny's body has never been found. Four people
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  Speaker 2: were arrested on drug-related offenses this week in an area
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  Speaker 2: of the city that has become a nexus point for
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  Speaker 2: illegal activity.
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  Speaker 1: The RNC says based on a high number of complaints
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  Speaker 1: stemming from activity in Father Walsh's Park, officers are continuing
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  Speaker 1: to keep an active presence in the area through a
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  Speaker 1: combination of patrols and covert operations. Members of the Weapons
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  Speaker 1: and Drug Enforcement Unit arrested three men, ages 35, 36
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  Speaker 1: and 39, and a 29-year-old woman for drug trafficking in
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  Speaker 1: the park. The four were arrested with charges pending following
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  Speaker 1: the results of drug testing and Meanwhile, a 38-year-old woman
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  Speaker 1: was arrested in August for breaching a release order barring
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  Speaker 1: her from being in the area.
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  Speaker 2: RNC hope the public can help identify a car believed
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  Speaker 2: to be involved in a recent hit-and-run in Torbay. RNC
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  Speaker 2: say the suspect vehicle struck two parked cars and ran
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  Speaker 2: into a house around 6.30 Sunday night before driving away
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  Speaker 2: from the scene. A search failed to locate the vehicle involved,
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  Speaker 2: but it was caught on camera leaving the scene. College
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  Speaker 2: of Physicians and Surgeons recently accepted the guilty plea of
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  Speaker 2: a St. John's OBGYN who agreed that she had failed
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  Speaker 2: to respond appropriately and in a sufficiently timely manner in
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  Speaker 2: a medical emergency that ultimately claimed the life of a
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  Speaker 2: newborn child. In a summary of adjudication released online in July,
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  Speaker 2: the tribunal accepted a joint submission on sanction of Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Colleen Cook. And somebody tried to break into the United
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  Speaker 2: Church in Clark's Beach Wednesday night. And while they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get inside, they did cause a lot of damage. The
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  Speaker 2: large front doors and some of the locking mechanisms were
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  Speaker 2: heavily damaged. Parishioners were asking anyone who witnessed anything or
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  Speaker 2: who has footage to contact Bay Roberts RCMP. And firefighters
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  Speaker 2: from across the metro region took to the stairs outside
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  Speaker 2: the Mary Brown Center. to recognize the efforts of fellow
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  Speaker 2: emergency crews in New York who responded to the attacks
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  Speaker 2: on the World Trade Center 25 years ago. Today's third
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  Speaker 2: annual stair climb brought out dozens of firefighters and members
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  Speaker 2: of the RNC, climbing the equivalent of the 110 floors
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  Speaker 2: of the World Trade Center. Firefighter Justin Chow of St.
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  Speaker 2: John's Regional.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I realized, like I said, how many stairs
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  Speaker 3: and what they went through that day. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's very sobering, really. when you're physically doing it and realizing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the impact of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's your news. I'm Brian Medour.