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Check out the news headlines and listen to the latest update for Friday, April 12.

A 27-year-old Moncton man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with stabbing of a bus driver aboard a bus in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick.

Defense contractor General Dynamics is laying off nearly a third of its workforce at its gun manufacturing plant downstate in Saco.

The Gulf of Maine shrimp fishing season officially  closes today,  and the harvest will go down as the smallest since 1978.

Police have charged a 26-year-old New Brunswick man with second-degree murder in the apparent stabbing death of a relative in a Manitoba motel.

A bill that would help military veterans start their own farming businesses is heading to the Maine to the House and Senate for consideration.

Get ready for one more blast of Old Man Winter. Snow is expected to overspread Northern Maine and New Brunswick tonight, dumping up to 5 inches before changing to rain tomorrow.

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