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The parents of recently deceased New York Rangers player Derek Boogaard have decided to donate his brain for research. He was found dead in his apartment on Friday.
An autopsy was conducted Saturday but the cause of death remains unknown. Officials say they are waiting for toxicology test results that might not be determined for several weeks.
Dr. Robert Stern from Boston Univeristy's reserch center says the hockey players brain will go in a Brain Bank. He says Boogard's brain will be used to help study the effects of concussions in athletes.
The 28 year-old...
Some residents of St- Jean- sur- Richelieu may soon be able to return home. Civil-protection authorities say water levels in the river have finally crested and have continued to slowly drop. According to Hydro-Meteo, the water level is diminishing by up to five millimetres per hour. Authorities will be drawing up plans to help people return to their homes over the coming weeks. So far the floods have affected more than three thousand houses and forced nearly one thousand people from their homes. These being the worst floods the district has seen
in more than one hundred and forty years.
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