Ontario’s police watchdog has closed its investigation into a collision involving a cruiser and a snowplow that injured two snowmobilers north of Wingham three months ago. Ontario Provincial Police in Huron County shut down the southbound lanes of London Road during a winter storm on Feb. 17. An officer had pulled over and activated the […]
As city hall seeks savings to meet Mayor Josh Morgan’s order to cut next year’s proposed tax hike, two politicians have their own idea: Delaying or cancelling bike lane projects. Ahead of Thursday’s meeting of the budget committee, councillors Susan Stevenson and Paul Van Meerbergen are proposing a motion to have city hall staff come […]
SARNIA — A young Windsor man who led various police units throughout Southwestern Ontario on a wild high-speed chase from Grand Bend to his hometown last summer called it an extremely foolish mistake. “I’ve learned a very valuable lesson through all this,” Jakob Monforton said to a Sarnia judge as he was being fined $4,000 […]
The mother of a 26-year-old who died in a crash southwest of London said she sensed something was wrong when her son was late coming home from work.
Two women face charges, including aggravated assault, after a man was set ablaze downtown and badly hurt Monday, London police say.
A police investigation that throughout Sunday morning closed a stretch of a busy north London street was centred on a damaged vehicle that appeared to have collided with a cruiser. Ontario Provincial Police were leading the probe that had closed Richmond Street between Sunnyside Drive and Hillview Boulevard, just south of Masonville mall. A damaged […]
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Great Lakes Commission
On May 7, 1965, the SS Cedarville sank beneath the waters of the Straits of Mackinac after a collision just one mile east of the Mackinac Bridge. The freighter plied […]
A London man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after a fatal January 2022 south London crash.
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a driver fleeing from police on Highway 401 crashed near Ingersoll. Oxford OPP tried to stop a vehicle around 3:30 a.m. Sunday in the westbound lanes of the 401, but the driver took off, police said. A short time later, the vehicle was involved in a single-vehicle collision on […]
London police have charged a man with arson following a fire that disrupted exams at Western University. Emergency crews were called to campus around 2:30 p.m. on April 24 to reports of a fire at the Social Sciences Centre, where firefighters doused a blaze, police said. Nobody was injured. Investigators ruled the fire suspicious and […]
Kincardine News
The driver of a school bus has been charged following a collision involving a young cyclist in Kincardine. Around 3:20 p.m. on April 25, South Bruce OPP were called after a student on a bicycle was hit by a school bus on Russell Street, according to an OPP news release. Police said the student had […]