While his police statement played on the courtroom video screens, Shane Cameron rocked and shook in the witness box. He closed his eyes. It was apparent he wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the courtroom. “I’m not feeling the best,” he said to Superior Court Justice Martha Cook. “A day and a […]
A London man is charged after police say a stolen vehicle was driven through a school yard while children were playing nearby.
A London resident and their dog escaped an early morning fire on Monday, officials with the London Fire Department say. In a statement on social media, they say that crews arrived at a “fully involved structure fire” on Hubrey Road – which runs north-south near London’s southeastern edge, close to the Wilton Grove Road-Highbury Avenue […]
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Funding for homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid Street Mission will continue to flow, despite the ward councillor putting up an intense fight to halt it. In a 9-5 vote at a city council meeting Tuesday, councillors resurrected a motion quashed at a committee meeting in March to give $611,000 to the agency so it […]
It is an unusual court exhibit at a trial about an unusual homicide. When investigators found it, it was wrapped in three layers of plastic and tucked into an old pillowcase. On Wednesday, the Superior Court jury at Ashley Bourget’s first-degree murder trial got a second look at a hatchet found in a homemade backyard […]
Can Easton Cowan be the best player in the OHL playoffs again and lead the club to a second straight league championship this spring?
London city councillors voted Tuesday to fire the city’s integrity commissioner, citing concerns with some of the work the firm has done and the positions it has staked out. Meeting as the strategic priorities and policy committee, councillors voted 9-6 to can the civic watchdog by providing a 30-day notice to terminate its contract. “Having […]
Even in the clutter of Ashley Bourget’s small Adelaide Street apartment, the black baseball bat was hard to miss.
If it hadn’t been for the trees, Grant Norton’s body might have been lost in the Forest City.
Middlesex Masters Soccer League is hosting a founders' appreciation event on April 4, for players from the seven original clubs.
Before they found Grant Norton’s body, the police already had information that he might have been killed. “We had information that he was involved in the illicit drug culture and that he had been robbed . . . and killed,” London police Det.-Const. Blake Morrison, who has spent years on the investigation into Norton’s death, […]