Losses could top $1M in barn blaze that killed 100 cattle

WARWICK TOWNSHIP – The Ontario Fire Marshal will not be investigating an early-morning barn blaze here that killed about 100 cattle and caused as much as $1 million in damage. A trucker driving through the area noticed the fire at the Egremont Road dairy farm around 4:30 a.m. Thursday and called 911 before stopping to […]

Gun conviction sheds light on ‘grave’ Ipperwash pot-shop standoff

A tense confrontation between an armed man and police officers in Kettle and Stony Point nearly two years ago gave the First Nation community’s worried chief flashbacks to the deadly 1995 Ipperwash Crisis. Police were tight-lipped about the clash between the 28-year-old London man and officers there to investigate an angry crowd that had gathered in […]

Killer’s anguished cries overwhelm courtroom as judge mulls sentence

SARNIA – Tina George’s sobbing was so loud and prolonged it caused a Sarnia courtroom to screech to a halt. The 38-year-old Kettle and Stony Point First Nation woman, convicted of manslaughter in the 2018 death of Jesse Storr, wailed while hearing his father’s victim-impact statement read to the court Friday during her sentencing hearing. […]

Teenager identified as second victim of Christmastime double homicide

Provincial police have identified the second body recovered during a double-homicide investigation in Sarnia and rural Lambton County shortly after Christmas. The remains of Jelani Byer-Coates, 18, from Ajax were discovered in Enniskillen Township near Petrolia on Dec. 28, Lambton OPP said Wednesday. “The OPP is asking that the media and public respect a request […]