The Laken Riley Act would put immigrants without legal status under federal detention without the possibility of being released if they are arrested for certain crimes.
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Convicted murderer Carlos Guerra Guerra’s sentencing on a gun charge was a bit of an academic – and mathematical – exercise. Guerra Guerra, 23, won’t serve any more prison time for possessing a restricted firearm. The 2½-year sentence dealt Thursday to the aspiring rapper convicted this month of second-degree murder and assault with a weapon […]
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The defence and Crown made closing arguments Thursday at the trial of a London woman accused of killing her mother in a fight
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Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared a London police officer of criminal wrongdoing for using a Taser to “incapacitate” a woman in distress
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Barbara Cabala has maintained throughout her Superior Court manslaughter trial her mother attacked her and she was defending herself during a fight that left her mother dead.
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Barbara Cabala testified she still struggles to understand what triggered her mother to “attack” her in a violent struggle that left her mother dead. “I don’t know, that’s what I was trying to process, trying to figure out. Why? Forty years of arguing back and forth, all of a sudden decide to resort to physical […]
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A 55-year-old is charged with voyeurism after St. Thomas police say a woman was secretly filmed while inside a retail store
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The woman charged with manslaughter in the 2021 death of her mother told police that they were “strangling each other full-throttle," the jury heard Friday as the Crown concluded its case.
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Samuel Maloney was seated in a swivel chair when he fired a crossbow at a London police tactical officer who returned fire, an inquest heard. Douglas Brown, a former member of the emergency response unit who is now an inspector with London police, described his encounter with Maloney during a raid on his Old South […]
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The former mayor of Woodstock, the judge said upon convicting him on Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault, was playing fast and loose with the truth. “Bluntly,” Superior Court Justice Spencer Nicholson said of Trevor Birtch, “I found Mr. Birtch to be completely incredible and an obvious liar. “I find that Mr. Birtch lied […]
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A London woman who awoke with a cockroach embedded in her ear and won a provincial tribunal hearing over that nightmare is facing a repeat battle.
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“What the little ice devils pull down in Lake Superior never comes up again.”