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A six-year-old boy was rescued from Lake Huron after drifting away from shore on what Ontario Provincial Police described as an “inflatable ring.” The child, who police said was wearing a “personal floatation device,” drifted from shore near Black’s Point Beach, south of Goderich, on Monday just after noon, police said. The boy was located […]
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Provincial police closed a Southwestern Ontario beach after a swimmer went missing in Lake Erie over the weekend. Emergency crews were called Sunday shortly after 3 p.m. to Port Burwell beach for a report of two swimmers in distress, Elgin OPP said. One swimmer was pulled to safety and taken to hospital with non-life threatening […]
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London police are asking the public for help after a sex-trade worker alleges she was sexually assaulted by a man armed with a handgun. A man in a vehicle approached a sex worker some time between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. Saturday in the 100-block of Rectory Street, north of Hamilton Road, where the woman […]
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A driver is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Tillsonburg on Wednesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police say. Vienna Road at Simcoe Street and Old Vienna Road in Tillsonburg was closed following a single-vehicle crash, Oxford OPP said on social media Wednesday at about 10 a.m. The crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. and the driver […]
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The vehicle sought in connection with a fatal hit-and-run in Hanover last week has been located destroyed by fire in a bush lot near the town, police say. Hanover police Chief Chris Knoll said in a social media post that investigators had recovered a burned 2007 PT Cruiser in a bush lot on Sideroad 25 […]
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A motorcyclist was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash northwest of London Saturday morning, police say. Two riders were heading south on Vanneck Road when one lost control and crashed around 7:30 a.m. in Middlesex Centre, the Ontario Provincial Police said. Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact Middlesex […]
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A pedestrian is dead in Ingersoll after being struck by a train, Ontario Provincial Police in Oxford County said on Monday morning. Police closed Mutual Street North (between Carnegie Street and Wilson Street) and Thames Street South (between Carnegie Street and Oxford Lane) amid the investigation and the OPP was warning drivers to avoid the […]