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Targeted enforcement, outreach cut London gun crime: Top cop
London’s police chief credits targeted enforcement and community engagement for a nearly 50 per cent reduction in gun violence in the city.
Charges after man in tactical vest with fake gun arrested: London police
A Londoner was charged after a man entered a core residential building in what looked like a tactical-style vest with a firearm on it, city police say.
Judge blasts driver for police chase from Grand Bend to Windsor
SARNIA — A young Windsor man who led various police units throughout Southwestern Ontario on a wild high-speed chase from Grand Bend to his hometown last summer called it an extremely foolish mistake. “I’ve learned a very valuable lesson through all this,” Jakob Monforton said to a Sarnia judge as he was being fined $4,000 […]
State drops last of charges against UM pro-Palestinian encampment protesters
Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office dropped trespassing charges against students charged with trespassing during a May 2024 raid on an encampment on U of M’s campus.
Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical
Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate.
With the election of President Donald Trump, the conflict over glyphosate’s risks and benefits entered a new realm of confrontation that has the potential to alter its stature as the favored chemical tool in agriculture, the largest user of fresh water in the blue economy of Michigan and the Great Lakes.