Tag: crime
Suspicious fire at Western University forces exams to be moved
A major academic building at Western University is closed while London police investigate a suspicious fire that has forced the university to move some exams. London firefighters responded at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to the Social Sciences Centre. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze but damage was significant and fire investigators were called in, the department said […]
‘Significant disruption’ to drug trafficking in Owen Sound area: police
Close to $100,000 in illicit drugs have been seized and six people have been charged following a months-long targeted investigation into drug trafficking in Owen Sound and surrounding communities. Police executed three simultaneous search warrants within the City of Owen Sound on Thursday in relation to the investigation, which was launched back in February. Labelled […]
Accused denies killing drug dealer, ‘bragging’ about it
Ashley Bourget admitted she didn’t like Grant Norton. “It doesn’t mean I killed him,” she said during her third day in the witness box at her first-degree murder trial. Bourget, 41, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of the 59-year-old drug dealer, began her testimony on Tuesday and started to […]
Affordability, CBC, life sentences: BGOS candidates tackle the issues
The all-candidates meeting will be rebroadcast on Rogers
Woman, 39, dead after fire guts east-end home: London police
A 39-year-old woman has died of her injuries after a house fire in the city’s east end. Emergency crews responded shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday to a blaze at 1884 Avalon St., a residential street located north of the intersection of Clarke Road and Dundas Street. Firefighters found a badly injured woman on the front […]