HALIFAX—Travellers will find job and service cuts at Jazz Air results in fewer direct flights between the country’s smaller cities and rising prices for air travel, an aviation industry expert predicts.
Jazz Air (TSX:JAZ.UN) announced yesterday it is cutting 270 of its roughly 5,000 employees and plans to reduce services by five percent of its current capacity later this summer.

When Jonathan Morris’s daughter was planning her wedding, he thought the groom was getting overlooked. So he planned a guys-only “man shower” to welcome Brian Wigand into the family.
The party included manly snacks, games and gifts.
“It seemed like there was a lot of hoopla for the ladies and not too much for the guys,” said Morris of Maple Valley, Wash. “It was really fun, male bonding.”
Showers geared to grooms are a growing trend in the wedding industry, said Allana Baroni, the entertainment expert for the website ehow.com.

BERLIN—Adolf Hitler is back in Berlin.
But this time he’s a wax figure depicted hunkering down in his bunker in the German capital in the final days of the Second World War.
The likeness of the Nazi leader hunched over a desk in the dimly lit bunker just before he committed suicide was one of dozens unveiled yesterday at the official opening of the newest branch of the British wax museum, Madame Tussauds.
The waxworks are showcased in chronological and thematic order, highlighting Europe’s postwar history.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—Afghan insurgents twice attempted to blow up Canadian Forces convoys without any success, the military announced yesterday.
In one case, a Canadian armoured vehicle was unscathed and a suicide attacker wound up dead.
In the other, a vehicle was retrieved from a crater after a bomb detonated and it also drove off without significant damage.
The suicide strike occurred Wednesday as Canadians were patrolling near the border town of Spin Boldak, next to Pakistan.

WEATHERFORD, Texas—A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison yesterday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years.
A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him to 40 life prison terms—one for each sex assault conviction—and 20 years for each of the three sexual performance of a child convictions.

(ORILLIA)–Four people died on roads patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police, three died in marine incidents over the Canada Day weekend and one person was killed in an ATV crash.
In addition, OPP officers charged 181 motorists with going more than 50 kilometres over the posted speed limit.
“Our targeted enforcement, combined with the use of two aircraft and our extensive marine patrols appear to be having a positive affect on people,” Commissioner Julian Fantino said. “Our officers, in the air, on the ground and on the water, did an excellent job all weekend.

BANGKOK—Canadian schoolteacher Christopher Paul Neil is to sentenced Aug. 15 for sexually abusing a 13-year-old Thai boy and photographing the offence.
A Bangkok court announced the sentencing date today for the 32-year-old Neil, who was arrested last year following a sensational international manhunt.
Interpol directed the search after hundred of photos of Neil were discovered on the Internet allegedly engaging in sex acts with young boys.
He pleaded guilty May 12 to sexually abusing the Thai teen and faces up to 10 years in prison.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A teenage girl taking part in a 24-hour bike race in Alaska has been severely injured in a grizzly bear attack.
Police in Anchorage say the girl was riding early yesterday on a park trail when attacked.
She used her cellphone to call 911 but was unable to communicate.
Another biker found the mauled girl around 1:30 a.m. and called police.
Medics were escorted by officers with shotguns into the dark woods to retrieve her.

ST. LEONARD, N.B.—A truck carrying 12 million honey bees overturned on the Trans-Canada Highway in northwest New Brunswick today, but police say rain in the area has helped contain the bees.
RCMP say the transport truck, carrying 330 crates of bees, was travelling on a ramp on the highway near St. Leonard when the load shifted and the truck overturned shortly after 6 a.m.
“Mother nature has been very co-operative with us,” said RCMP Sgt. Derek Strong.

LIMA, Peru—A student was fatally shot and seven other Universitario club fans were wounded while on their way to a league football match last night.
Police Gen. Javier Uribe told Lima’s Radioprogramas that a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on the eight fans, who were on their way to the National Stadium for a match between Universitario and Sporting Cristal.
Carlos Zamora, a doctor at the Cayetano Heredia hospital where the men were taken, said the 21-year-old student died in the operating room. Five of the seven wounded were between the ages of 14 and 17.