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14-year-old charged in mass shooting that killed Woodstock man
Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that left two men dead and others wounded in a high school parking lot on a weekend in early June. Det. Sgt. Phillip Campbell says the teen is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted […]
Neighbours stunned by woman’s slaying, decry violence in public housing
Neighbours at a London public housing apartment building are expressing grief over the death of a 62-year-old woman in what police say was the city’s third homicide of the year.
Legacies live on as Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame reopens at Owen Sound legion Sunday
Music has a funny way of distorting time. When the Ridge River Ramblers started into Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl Sunday afternoon at the grand reopening of the Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound you could close your eyes and imagine a time before the fire when […]
SPORTS BRIEFS: U9 North Stars heat up
MAJOR NORTH STARS LOSE TO LAKERS The Peterborough Lakers outscored the North Stars 4-0 in the third period en route to a 15-8 victory inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Saturday night. Lion’s Head product Rob Hellyer did most of the damage for Peterborough with three goals and four assists in the contest. Austin […]
Hamilton takes stranglehold in series, Owen Sound faces elimination
If they’re going down, it will be while hitting, kicking and screaming. The Owen Sound North Stars dropped Game 2 of their first-round best-of-five Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League playoff series 10-4 to the Hamilton Bengals inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday evening. In large part, because of the over 70 minutes in […]
Man charged with second-degree murder in 62-year-old woman’s death
A 44-year-old man is charged with second-degree murder in London’s third homicide of 2024 â one of two to occur this weekend. London police have said it was about midnight on Friday when officers were called to an apartment building near the Wharncliffe-Western roads intersection following reports of a medical emergency. Police say officers found […]
Celebrity chef with long resume opens Southwestern Ontario eatery
Award-winning chef Shane Straiko recently opened his first restaurant, Straiko’s by the Lake, in Port Burwell
Vigil held for London teen killed two days after high school graduation
More than a dozen people held a vigil Saturday night to mourn an 18-year-old Londoner who graduated high school only two days before being killed, with grieving friends remembering him as a friendly and energetic young man. Abdul Hashim, known to his friends as âZeko,â died Friday night after he was stabbed in the parking […]
One dead after motorcycle strikes tree west of London: Police
One person is dead after an early Sunday motorcycle crash west of London, provincial police say. The crash happened about 2:45 a.m. in the area of Longwoods Road near Sassafras Road, about half way between London and Chatham, Middlesex OPP said. The crash involved a motorcycle that caught fire after leaving the roadway and striking […]
Billy Bishop Museum to host ceremony for honoured local veterans
The Billy Bishop Museum is hosting a plaque return ceremony for the 2023 Honouring Our Local Veterans inductees. On Wednesday at 4 p.m., the honoured veterans and their families will receive the plaques that have been touring the community since the induction ceremony on Oct. 29, 2023. The plaques have made stops at Heritage Place […]