London Free Press
More than 250,000 London and area voters cast ballots at advance polls ahead of Monday’s federal election, reflecting a trend that saw high turnout across the country. The advance polls for the federal campaign, held during the Easter long weekend, saw a 25 per cent increase in participation nationally and turnout also was strong across […]
London Free Press
Charges have been laid after London police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city’s north end early Tuesday, police say. At around 1 a.m., a group of men was in a parking garage in the 700 block of Kipps Lane, near the intersection of Adelaide Street North, when they […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Anti-gun violence activists pressed Michigan lawmakers to fund resources for domestic violence survivors Tuesday during a rally on the Capitol steps.
London Free Press
Ashley Bourget said she’s putting her safety and reputation at risk by taking the stand at her first-degree murder trial. “I’m afraid of retaliation from the mob,” she testified Tuesday as the defence began its case in the Superior Court jury trial now in its fifth week. “I’m also afraid of what people on the […]
London Free Press
A woman kicked and spat upon London police officers who were investigating an assault at a south-end motel, police say. It was about 2 a.m. on April 19, last Saturday, when London police say officers were called to a motel in the 600-block of Wellington Road – an area near the intersection with Southdale Road […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Gordon Berg learned about Hospice of Michigan while playing music for small groups at the assisted living facility where his mother lived. When he saw a hospice volunteer playing music for one of the residents, he volunteered to do the same.
London Free Press
A skull mailbox, burned e-bikes, scooters and shacks in the backyard remained in the rubble Friday of an east London home destroyed by fire one day prior. Surrounded by yellow tape, police cruisers, and fire investigators, the home at 1884 Avalon St. – near the intersection of Clarke Road and Dundas Street – was known […]
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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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A London restaurateur has opened what she says will be the city’s first zero-food-waste eatery. After two years of planning, designing and building, Jess Jazey-Spoelstra officially opened the doors to Los Olivos on Tuesday following a soft launch during the weekend. “This was my baby,” said Jazey-Spoelstra, who opened Bear and Frankie’s at Covent Garden […]
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Ashley Bourget told the police officer she should have been given “a Purple Heart” instead of a first-degree murder charge. “I shouldn’t go to jail for murder. I should get a Purple Heart instead,” she said through loud sobs during her police interview on June 16, 2021, referring to the U.S. military honour. The interview […]
London Free Press
ST. THOMAS – A raging fire in a vacant factory sent thick black plumes of smoke into the air and drew onlookers from across the city on Monday. The fire at the former Weatherhead Co. of Canada Ltd. plant at 100 Woodworth Ave. began at about 4 p.m. About 50 to 60 St. Thomas firefighters […]