Police say the victims were 23-year-old Samuel-Rene Boutin of Saumarez, 32-year-old Alfred Rousselle of Brantville and 35-year-old Ian Benoit of Tabusintac.

The men died after their boat hit a sandbar near Tabusintac on Saturday.

Five search and rescue teams, an underwater recovery team and military searchers from Canadian Forces Base Gagetown took part in the recovery effort.

The Transportation Safety Board has been called in to investigate.

The medical residents have written an open letter expressing their concerns to Premier David Alward and Health Minister Ted
Flemming.

The letter is signed by a dozen chief and associate chief residents of family medicine training programs in the Maritimes that
represent 141 post-graduate residents.

In the letter, the residents say there are limited job opportunities in New Brunswick for physicians who’ve completed their
training in family medicine despite the thousands of people on waiting lists for family doctors.

They say the few positions available require new doctors to take over established practices or move to remote and rural areas.

The residents also say recruitment efforts have been cut in the province.

The health minister did not comment today.

30-year-old Christine Margaret Wood is charged with concealing the body of a child.

RCMP have been investigating since the body of Baby Taylor was discovered by a group of ATVers on the side of Taylor Road near Monteagle in April 2009.

The newborn was found in a snowbank and police believe he had been left there up to five months before he was discovered.

The investigation is still ongoing and police say further charges are possible.

Wood must abide by certain conditions while on release including the requirement to notify police if she changes her living address or if she becomes pregnant.

She’ll be back in court for plea on July 3.

NFL owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers’ new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season.

San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life Stadium.

The 2017 Super Bowl will be held in Houston, which also beat out Miami for that game.

The only previous Super Bowl played in northern California was at Stanford Stadium in 1985.

Houston hosted the 2004 NFL championship game.

When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the decision, members of the San Francisco bid committee let out a roar of approval, then toasted each other with champagne.

It was the first time in a decade that a Super Bowl was awarded on the first ballot.

“The Bay Area has been waiting for a (title) game since 1985. We have a stadium now … we are just thrilled and couldn’t be happier about this,” said Daniel Lurie, a leader of the San Francisco bid.

“We are going to get to highlight the best the Bay Area has to offer.”

The Dolphins were denied public money for a stadium upgrade in South Florida following widespread complaints about the public investment sunk into the Marlins’ new baseball home.

Multibillionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross contends $350 million in stadium improvements are badly needed, but he doesn’t want to pay for them by himself. Nor does he want a scaled-down renovation of the 26-year-old facility.

Miami has hosted 10 Super Bowls, tied with New Orleans for the most. But neither will get the 50th.

For years, it was thought the NFL would seek to stage the 50th Super Bowl in Los Angeles, where the first one was played (but did not sell out) on Jan. 15, 1967. But with no franchise in LA and no suitable stadium projects approved, that hope disappeared.

Next Feb. 2, the game goes outdoors in a cold-weather site for the first time, at MetLife Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. If that gamble pays off for the NFL, look for other cities in similar climates — Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver — to bid for future Super Bowls.

The 2015 game will be played in the Phoenix area.

Earlier Tuesday, owners approved a $200 million loan for stadium construction in Atlanta. The multipurpose stadium could cost as much as $1 billion, with team owner Arthur Blank committed to funding most of it. Blank, speaking at the NFL’s spring meetings, called the decision by the team owners an “important milestone” in moving the project forward.

Howard has held top-seeded Chicago to only one goal in two straight games, lifting seventh-seeded Detroit to a 2-1 series lead. He is 4-1, and is averaging two goals against and 34-plus saves since the Red Wings trailed second-seeded Anaheim 3-2 in the first round.

Chicago’s Corey Crawford has given up a combined seven goals over the last two games after allowing one goal in the first period of the series opener.

Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville says Crawford has been fine and doesn’t seem to be inclined to put Ray Emery in net for Game 4 on Thursday night.

Crawford won five of his first six games in the playoffs and shut out Minnesota once.

The building in downtown Halifax was shut down May 7 after the Office of the Fire Marshal ordered the gallery to fix the sprinklers.

None of the collections in the building were damaged.

The gallery is the largest art museum in Atlantic Canada.

Two union locals were granted special status last fall to challenge a bureaucrat’s ruling that the Chinese workers could be hired by HD Mining International Ltd.

Specifically, they challenged the so-called labour market opinions issued by the official from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, which cleared the way to hire the foreign workers.

They said the official was fettered by supervisors who wanted a favourable ruling.

They also said the official was unreasonable when he concluded that hiring the foreigners temporarily would not hurt Canadians’ job prospects.

The court dismissed the challenge, saying neither of those arguments holds water.

The UFC has confirmed a bantamweight title defence by Renan Barao, who was to face No. 4 contender Eddie Wineland, is now off because Barao was injured during training.

There is no word yet on a replacement bout for UFC 161.

Other planned bouts include light-heavyweights Mauricio (Shogun) Rua against Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Rashad Evans versus Dan Henderson.

Alexis Davis of Port Colborne, Ont., will also face Rosi Sexton from Manchester, England, in the first ever UFC women’s bantamweight bout in Canada.

Lightweight Mitch (Danger Zone) Clarke of Saskatoon will fight England’s John (The One) Maguire and light-heavyweight Ryan (Big Deal) Jimmo of Edmonton by way of Saint John, N.B., will face Croatia’s Igor Pokrajac.

Dunwoody police spokesman Timothy Fecht says officers arrested Cozart after responding to a call about illegal drug activity at the Le Méridien hotel just north of Atlanta Monday afternoon. Fecht says officers saw smoke and smelled marijuana wafting from a room.

It wasn’t immediately clear what Cozart was doing in Georgia. Representatives at his booking agency said they didn’t have contact info for an attorney for the 17-year-old Chicago native and didn’t know much about the incident.

Cozart was arrested in January and spent about two months in juvenile detention for violating probation on a weapons conviction. He had received probation for pointing a gun at police in 2012.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Burnett will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct. 20 in Washington. A gala performance will feature top names in comedy

The 80-year-old Burnett said she can’t believe she is receiving the prize.

“It’s almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington,” she said in a statement.

Burnett had her breakout on Broadway in “Once Upon a Mattress,” performing at night in 1959 while also appearing in the mornings on TV’s “The Garry Moore Show.” She is best known for her own long-running variety show, “The Carol Burnett Show.” It ran from 1967 to 1978, averaging 30 million viewers a week on CBS. Her guest stars included Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Reagan and Betty White.

Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein called Burnett a “unique and beloved entertainer.”

The Mark Twain Prize honours people who have an impact on American society in the tradition of Samuel Clemens, better known as Twain, as a social commentator and satirist. Previous honorees include Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Tina Fey and Ellen DeGeneres, who won last year.

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