London police notch another perfect year for clearing homicides

London Free Press
London police laid charges in all of the city’s homicides in 2024, the sixth straight year the force has achieved a perfect clearance rate for killings. There were six homicides last year in London, down from eight the previous year, and just below the 10-year average of 6.2 deaths per
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We loved these things in 2024, and hope you enjoy them in 2025

Interlochen Public Radio
The IPR News staff assembled a list of things we loved over the past year (most of which have very little to do with news). We hope these little pieces of joy from our lives will bring some joy to yours in 2025.
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50 years ago today, Art Duhamel was arrested for fishing in Grand Traverse Bay

Interlochen Public Radio
The arrest led to a test case that would force the state of Michigan to recognize Anishinaabe fishing rights in the Grand Traverse region.
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Three U.K. men charged in Owen Sound restaurant owner’s death: Police

London Free Press
OWEN SOUND – Three men from the United Kingdom are charged in the 2023 death of an Owen Sound restaurant owner who was assaulted outside his business in a dispute over an unpaid bill. The charges were announced at a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Owen Sound by Owen Sound
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Man tries to disarm officers while being arrested at bank: Police

London Free Press
A man causing a disturbance at a bank resisted officers as they tried to arrest him and grabbed at their equipment, London police said. Police responded at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to bank on Hyde Park Road south of Fanshawe Park Road where a man was causing a disturbance. Officers
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Life’s a beach (soon) as sand arrives at London’s new indoor volleyball venue

London Free Press
Leagues are already filling up at London’s soon-to-open indoor beach volleyball facility, a six-court space that’s moving sand in ahead of its January opening date.
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Fentanyl dealer who dodged manslaughter charge gets house arrest

London Free Press
The smudging ceremony in the courtroom before Craig French was sentenced for fentanyl trafficking aimed to honour ancestors and cleanse bodies and minds. The ceremony is rarely seen in the Superior Court of Justice. Before it began, there was an explanation how the Indigenous ceremony was considered to be “sacred
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Doug Ford promises to get tougher on the homeless. Is it a good idea

London Free Press
Ontario's premier is pledging new legislation which promises a crackdown on public drug use and encampments and get more people indoors and into treatment, whether it violates their rights or not.
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London magic mushroom shop still open after chain claims to shut 30 locations

London Free Press
An illegal magic mushroom dispensary in London remains open weeks after the chain claimed it was shuttering all of its Ontario stores, citing repeated police raids.
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Baranyai: Too often, consequences mistaken for censorship

London Free Press
This fall, a social worker in Yukon temporarily was stripped of her professional registration in B.C. for endorsing conspiracy theories.
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Dyer: Netanyahu’s world smaller after ICC charges

London Free Press
Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant have not been found guilty of anything. However . . .
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Flood risk too great to allow fast-food joint in northeast London: Upper Thames officials

London Free Press
Jack Moulton breaks down why officials are warning against the development.
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