Tag: Highway 401
Two men charged after man threatened at gunpoint: Police
A firearm was seized and two people face charges after an argument at a core-area home on Wednesday. Three men known to each other began arguing on Wednesday around 4 p.m. at a home near Rogers Avenue and Wharncliffe Road North, London police said. During the argument, two men threatened and pointed a firearm at […]
Youths petting cat on sidewalk assaulted, man charged: OPP
Three youths petting a cat on a sidewalk in Port Stanley were assaulted by a man who came out of a home and yelled at them, Elgin OPP say
Murder charges after house fire that killed Southwestern Ontario native
SAULT STE. MARIE – A man who died in a house fire that police say was deliberately set almost exactly two years ago – resulting in the recent arrests of three people – was originally from Southwestern Ontario, according to his obituary. Dwayne Kozuch previously lived in the Oxford County communities of Otterville and Woodstock, […]
Local politicians OK Woodstock’s industrial expansion plan: ‘Long time coming’
Oxford County politicians have pushed ahead a plan to rezone property in Woodstock’s east end for an industrial subdivision.
‘This head’s like limestone’: Doug Ford says he’s fine after 401 crash
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is all right but the vehicle he was travelling in got “hammered” when it was hit by another car Wednesday on Highway 401. The collision happened as Ford was on his way back from an announcement at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Bowmanville. The vehicle got “sideswiped,” Ford said. […]
Politicians set to balance industry, farmland, heritage with south London land plan
An industrial subdivision may rise in southeast London as the owner wants to tear down homes on a large agricultural site to prepare it for development, according to a staff report going to politicians on Tuesday. The 44 hectare (108 acre) plot of land at 1361 Wilton Grove Rd. is home to nine buildings and […]
London man charged with setting two fires Sunday: Police
A 43-year-old London man faces arson charges in a pair of fires Sunday in a neighbourhood near Greenway Park. London firefighters extinguished a fire outside a shed on Pinewood Drive at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, London police said. While crews were on scene they saw smoke coming from inside a nearby house and put that […]
Highway 401 robbery suspects impersonated police: OPP
Two suspects who impersonated police officers pulled over a driver on Highway 401 in Chatham-Kent and stole their vehicle, Elgin OPP say. The driver was stopped at about 9 p.m. on Christmas Day in the eastbound lanes of the 401 near Tilbury by two vehicles, one with flashing red and blue lights in the windshield, […]
Snow hits parts of Southwestern Ontario as deep freeze descends
Cold and snowy weather returned to Southwestern Ontario on Thursday morning after a few days of warmer temperatures, prompting police to issue warnings amid low visibility and several crashes. As of early Thursday, London had mostly been spared from the worst conditions, but temperatures had plummeted compared to earlier this week â with the effects […]