Tag: April
Descendant donates land for Negro Creek settlement memorial
The historial Negro Creek community, one of the first places escaped slaves from the American south settled in Grey County, will be memorialized on land donated by a descendant of an original Black family there. The land is along Negro Creek Road, just east of Highway 6, south of Williamsford. About two acres was formally donated this month […]
Five charged for bank heists in Southwestern Ontario, provincewide
More than $2 million was stolen, but none of the money has been recovered, police said
London’s courts are clogged. Two veteran lawyers aim to ease the backlog
Two veteran London lawyers are launching a new mediation business, a bid to speed up resolutions to legal disputes amid notoriously long delays in bring lawsuits to trial. Â
VW in St. Thomas: One mega-factory, one big proposal to power it
A proposed transmission line from London would power VW’s new St. Thomas factory with enough electricity for a city the size of Windsor.
Amid latest London jail death, inquest into seven previous fatalities sputters
Even as another fatality at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre was reported Friday, the province launched a legal battle that threatens to derail the inquest into the deaths of seven other men. The Ministry of the Solicitor General wants to curb the inquest’s examination of staffing levels, family supports and programming at EMDC, and in those efforts, […]