Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey-Bruce university student the first recipient of Sharif Rahman scholarship

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A University of Waterloo student completing a degree in mechanical engineering is the first recipient of the Sharifur Rahman Memorial Scholarship. Shaan Banday said he’s honoured to receive the first scholarship in memory of Sharif Rahman, an Owen Sound restauranteur and community leader who was assaulted outside his downtown Owen Sound restaurant and later died […]

London Free Press

Inquest may be called into Stratford shooting rampage

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A deadly gunfire rampage in Stratford doesn’t meet the criteria for a mandatory inquest, but the quadruple shooting may still be the subject of an in-depth public examination, a spokesperson for the coroner’s office says. Ricky Bilcke, 31, fatally shot Johnny Bennett, 36, and seriously injured Stephanie Irvine, 37, and David Tokley, 43, on Aug. […]

London Free Press

After 10 years behind bars, ex-dog trainer, 80, acquitted at murder re-trial

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ST. THOMAS – After a decade behind bars, Boris Panovski, freshly acquitted of murder, looked up to the sky on Friday afternoon. “My first day out and it’s raining,” he said happily before departing the Elgin County courthouse with defence lawyer Margaret Barnes to an uncertain future. The former bird dog trainer and hairstylist from […]

Owen Sound Owen Sound Sun Times

City’s new downtown cameras to be installed and operational by the end of September

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In the days after Owen Sound business owner Sharif Rahman was assaulted outside his downtown restaurant last summer police released grainy images of two suspects and an early-2000s-model SUV. The caucasian men, both wearing what look to be black athletic shorts with one in a light orange T-shirt and one in a light blue T-shirt, […]