Veteran police officer charged with impaired driving after crash

CHATHAM — A veteran Chatham-Kent officer faces an impaired driving charge after a single-vehicle crash, police say. Officers were called to a collision near Howard and Indian Creek roads in Chatham about 7 p.m. Wednesday, Chatham-Kent police said in release Thursday. Officers arrested a suspect, an off-duty police officer, at his home, police said. Const. […]

‘Tinderbox’ goes up in flames, no one hurt in Ayton fire

The cause of a five-unit apartment fire in Ayton early Wednesday, which left no one injured, is undetermined but not suspicious, West Grey Fire Chief Phil Schwartz said Thursday. Neighbours got all residents out of the building and they’d left by the time firefighters arrived, Schwartz said. The Red Cross also assisted the tenants, he […]

London hospitals’ intensive-care COVID patient count drops

The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care in London hospitals has dropped in the past 24 hours, new statistics published on Thursday show, as the number of cases in the community continued spiking. Thursday, London Health Sciences Centre announced there were 79 inpatients with COVID-19, up from 63 on Wednesday. But the number in […]