The text messages found on Daniel Fawcett’s cell phone appeared to leave a breadcrumb trail to follow to his final moments. There were weeks of conversations found by the police between Fawcett and an associate who was a friend of Craig Allan, 50, the man on trial for Fawcett’s death. Those final messages directed Fawcett […]
A Southwestern Ontario teen reported missing from a high school last week has been found dead, provincial police say.
Christine Bishop and Terry Albert’s relationship was described as “tumultuous.” The couple didn’t share any children, but both were addicted to drugs, including fentanyl, the powerful, highly addictive synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and the main drug implicated in the ongoing opioid drug crisis. Both of them were […]
These are examples of cases that have become way too common in the local courts. A 31-year-old man was acquitted Wednesday in a London courtroom after a trial on a charge of pointing a handgun at another man during an argument along the Richmond Row bar strip, largely because the evidence from witnesses at the […]
What’s the difference between smash-and-grab raids and protection rackets? Not all that much from the legal point of view, but protection rackets have a lower level of risk and a higher rate of returns.
A seven-year-old was taken to hospital with serious injuries after being hit by gunfire at a home in the north end of the city, London police say. It was about 4 p.m. on Saturday when London police say officers responded to a home near Blanchard Road and Blanchard Crescent, a residential area southwest of the […]
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The YMCA of Southwestern Ontario's 2025 Women of Excellence award winners have been announced.
London police should create better raid procedures to account for the presence of children and the mental health history of people inside a home, a coroner’s inquest jury says.
An adult from Toronto was charged after three masked suspects snuck into a local high school, tracked down and held a student against their will inside a bathroom.
A Sarnia man’s appeal of his seven-year prison sentence and dangerous offender designation has been rejected by three judges in Ontario’s Appeal Court. Ronald Craig Hope, then 57, was arrested in May 2018 shortly after Sarnia police said he was wanted on charges including uttering threats to cause bodily harm and criminal harassment. He was […]