Tag: downtown
‘Extreme damage’ as London firefighters battle large overnight blaze
London firefighters spent hours battling a blaze at a large vacant building just east of downtown late Sunday into Monday morning. Fire officials first announced crews were called to 720 Cabell St. at shortly after 10 p.m., when photos and video posted to social media showed firefighters battling raging flames. Cabell is a dead-end street […]
Celebrity chef with long resume opens Southwestern Ontario eatery
Award-winning chef Shane Straiko recently opened his first restaurant, Straiko’s by the Lake, in Port Burwell
One hurt, damage pegged at $450K in fire at London home
One man was taken to hospital following an early Sunday fire that caused extensive damage to a home northwest of downtown London, fire officials say. Firefighters were called at about 6:30 a.m. Sunday to a fully engulfed home at 9 Summit Ave., west of the Oxford Street and Wharncliffe Road intersection and near the London […]
Man sentenced to prison for manslaughter, but out on appeal
BRANTFORD â Connor Gibson has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for manslaughter in the death of a man he hit with a two-by-four board. But Gibson, dressed neatly in a suit and tie in Brantfordâs Superior Court of Justice, and his lawyer met again hours later on Thursday in Toronto to arrange bail, […]
