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Can London officials pinpoint source of deadly legionnaires’ disease outbreak?
Public health officials are promising an update Wednesday afternoon, two weeks after the first reported cases, about an outbreak of a rare disease that has hospitalized nearly two dozen people and killed one. The Middlesex-London Health Unit, with help from Public Health Ontario, is in the midst of investigating an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease â […]
Operation Manoomin: Restoring Wild Rice along the Detroit River | Great Lakes Now
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Manoomin (mah-NOO-mehn) or wild rice was once very common in coastal marshes along the Detroit River and has always been sacred to First Nations.
London searchers find remains believed to that of girl lost in river
Police said the investigation has now been reassigned to the department’s major crimes division, which will be helping the coroner’s office
Eyewitness says he tried to save London girl swept away in Thames River
As the search for a girl missing in the Thames River in London continued Friday, an eyewitness who was fishing when she disappeared recalled how he tried to save her in the fast-moving current. The 11-year-old boy, who’d been fishing with his grandfather Thursday, said he saw the girl playing in the water upstream nearby […]
Police identify third suspect in downtown London shooting
London police have identified a third suspect in a downtown shooting and laid additional charges against one suspect
Man wanted in north London shooting arrested
A wanted Toronto man has been found and arrested in connection with a shooting last year near University Hospital, police said Friday
Killer conman Albert Walker loses parole appeal in B.C.
The Appeal Division of the Parole Board of Canada has turned down another challenge by notorious conman Albert Walker to receive day parole. The former Paris, Ontario, man has been serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of a UK man in a crime that saw him dubbed The Rolex Killer. Walker was convicted […]
Legionnaires’ disease: One dead, infections rise in London outbreak
One person has died and the infection toll has risen from a rare outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in London
Police searching for Lake Erie jet ski operator missing near Erieau
Authorities are searching for a man who went missing on a personal watercraft in Lake Erie near Erieau
Suspect sought in St. Thomas homicide arrested in London: Police
A man accused of gunning down a woman and setting her home ablaze in St. Thomas last month faces unrelated charges for fentanyl possession and breaking his parole conditions multiple times, according to court records