Tag: missing
London mother of girl missing in river clings to daughter’s final cry
“Mom!” That cry was the last word an anguished London mother said she heard from her young daughter before she was swept away by the fast-flowing Thames River, triggering a massive search for the seven-year-old that has now become a recovery mission. Little Anna Bielli was with her mother Karen Fermill and two younger siblings […]
Serious crash closes stretch of Hwy. 401 in Elgin County
A stretch of Hwy. 401 in Elgin County was closed early Saturday in the fallout of a serious single-vehicle crash, Elgin OPP report. An Ornge air ambulance was called in and the section of the highway between Orford and Furnival roads, southwest of London, closed in both directions, police said. The two roads intersecting the […]
Pavelka: How overcrowding impacts the world’s tourism hotspots
Joe Pavelka, Mount Royal University Every summer, millions of people jet off on vacations around the world. The United Nations World Tourism Organization estimates that international arrivals, the measure of global travel, will be two per cent higher than the pre-pandemic total was in 2019. However, as more of us are taking vacations, some of […]
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 […]
River search for missing London girl enters second day
A search was continuing Friday in north London for a missing girl last seen Thursday afternoon in the Thames River
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
LIVE: Frantic search continues in London for child in Thames River
London firefighters and police are using boats and a drone as they search for a child in the Thames River on Thursday. The child was last seen at 3 p.m. in the river in the area of Adelaide Street North and Kipps Lane, London police said. “Police are asking the public to avoid the area […]
Woman dies after being pulled from Goderich harbour: OPP
A woman from Huron County has died after she was pulled from the water near the Goderich pier on Wednesday. Emergency crews and the Canadian Coast Guard responded shortly before noon to a report of an unconscious person in the water in Goderich, along Lake Huron. The woman was found by the Coast Guard and […]
The electric energy future could be wasting away in a junk drawer | Great Lakes Echo
By Gabrielle Nelson Lily Wilkin has four old phones tucked away in her closet — and no plans to recycle them. “I keep them for nostalgia,” she said. Wilkin works at Best Buy, the nation’s largest retail collector of electronic waste — from CRT TVs to hard drives to fans. Wilkin said at least two […]
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London women’s advocate storms out of House committee meeting
MPs said they were ‘disgusted’ by the behaviour that drove two advocates for stopping violence against women to leave the parliamentary committee visibly shaken