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Ashley Bourget says she went for a bike ride and bought clothing at a thrift store after being ordered to leave her east London apartment where a bloodied, motionless Grant Norton was tied up on her couch. Bourget returned to her Adelaide Street home hours later to find Norton dead on the couch and the […]
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SARNIA – Kyle Herron’s own lawyer offered him a caution before he was led out of a Sarnia courtroom to serve a three-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. “If he falls back into this conduct next time around, it’ll be probably double the three years,” Robert McFadden said. Herron, 26, was arrested about a year […]
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Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October 2023 while she was behind bars became evidence at her first-degree murder trial in the death of high-level drug dealer Grant Norton. “Now that I’m […]
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London police were investigating a shooting that left a man with serious injuries. Officers were notified a man had arrived at a local hospital with a serious but non-life-threatening gunshot wound shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. The investigation is in its early stages, police say, and investigators are asking anyone who may have information […]
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A Sarnia man has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for two counts of fentanyl trafficking, including one linked to a $53,000 drug bust in 2022 Sarnia police said uncovered a record amount of pure fentanyl. Derrick Peachey pleaded guilty in January to the charges linked to a pair of drug busts just three months […]
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The morning Antony Centeno-So stabbed a friend to death is, he said, “a blur.” “It is all a blur for me because I was regularly sleep deprived and under the influence of crystal meth and fentanyl. This was the lowest time of my life,” he said Thursday at the second day of his sentencing hearing […]
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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 […]
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A St. Thomas resident faces charges after a vehicle collided with a school bus in rural Elgin County on Tuesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police say.
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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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Shane Cameron wanted to be anywhere but in the witness box. He slumped in the chair and mumbled a few answers to questions from the Crown. “I frankly don’t know why I’m here because I have a hard time remembering things and I don’t have any recollection about what happened or who or whatever that […]