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Amber Alert issued for Kitchener baby
The Ontario Provincial Police has issued an Amber Alert for a one-year-old girl from the Waterloo region.
100 cows killed as middle-of-the-night fire rips through area barn
Fire ripped through a barn west of London Thursday morning, killing 100 cows, police say. Emergency crews responded around 4:30 a.m. to huge fire at 8519 Egremont Dr., where no people were injured but 100 cattle died, Lambton County OPP said. The cause of the blaze isn’t immediately known, though investigators don’t believe it’s suspicious, […]
Heavy-machine driver blocked officer during probe into tractor crash: OPP
Two men are charged after a driver used piece of heavy equipment to block an OPP officer at a crash scene north of Stratford last week, police say. A Perth County OPP officer responded to a minor crash involving a tractor in the ditch on Line 57 in North Perth around 5 p.m. on Feb. […]
Don’t drink and drive also applies to scooters: police
A person operating a motorized scooter was charged with impaired driving after the scooter tipped over, police said. The charge was laid over the Family Day long weekend after officers responded to a 911 call in Simcoe involving a driver who was ejected from a scooter after it tipped over on Talbot Street, Norfolk OPP […]
Driver of large quarry truck linked to Hwy. 402 blockade charged: OPP
A 45-year-old Lambton County man faces several criminal and Highway Traffic Act charges after police stopped a large quarry truck in Warwick Township. Lambton OPP saw the large industrial vehicle on Egremont Road in Warwick Township just before 4 p.m. Saturday. The driver was arrested. Police determined the same individual was involved in the now-dismantled […]
Charges laid after stolen vehicle found in ditch
Ontario Provincial Police have have laid several charges against a Goderich man, including theft of a pickup truck.
Icy conditions lead to closures on parts of the 401 and 402
A combination of snow and ice made for a slow, messy morning commute with numerous crashes that led to the closure of parts of highways 401 and 402.
UPDATE: Poor weather conditions close portion of Hwy. 402
Lambton OPP were forced to close a portion of Highway 402 eastbound late Thursday afternoon due to poor weather conditions.
Two die in head-on collision south of Hensall
Two people are dead following a head-on collision Tuesday night on Highway 4 south of Hensall. Emergency crews who responded at about 10:10 p.m. to the crash found two “heavily damaged” cars that had collided head-on, Huron County OPP said Wednesday. One of the drivers, identified as Jacob McDougall, 27, of Hensall, died at the […]
Court records shed new light on fatal police shooting along Hwy. 401
A Southwestern Ontario man fatally shot by an OPP officer after a police pursuit east of Chatham last summer was a young father with a history of run-ins with police, court records and his obituary show. Ontario’s police watchdog charged OPP Const. Sean O’Rourke, 54, last month with manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death in […]