It was the $5-million mystery that gripped people across Southwestern Ontario: Who bought the winning lottery ticket that nearly hit its one-year expiry date before being cashed in? The question appears to have a happy answer. But high-profile lottery mega-wins don’t always have such positive endings. LFP’s Brian Williams looks back on other fascinating Southwestern […]
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The bizarre case of doula-duper Kaitlyn Braun took another turn Friday as a Hamilton judge slowed a plan to sentence the woman to prison for her quick return to defrauding those in the world of pregnancy support.
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Auditors digging into the Thames Valley District school board’s finances found several compensation infractions, their final report says
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Ryan Gauss has been elected chairperson of London’s police board. Gauss, longtime chief of staff to London Centre Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos, replaces Ali Chahbar, who resigned from the board this month, citing personal health reasons. Board member Nancy Branscombe nominated Gauss to become chairperson of the seven-member board that oversees policing in the city […]
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Woodstock police officer Det.-Const. Eric Dopf avoided termination after pleading guilty to two professional misconduct charges
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A London woman is charged with attempted murder for trying to drown a toddler, court records show.
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A former London-area teacher has been found guilty of professional misconduct and had his licence to teach suspended for four months
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A Toronto truck driver’s trial in Sarnia into drug smuggling charges at the Blue Water Bridge came to an abrupt end on Tuesday.
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Christopher Schurr killed Patrick Lyoya during a struggle that began as a traffic stop in April 2022. The jury deliberated for days.
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The jury at the trial of a London woman charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a drug dealer has begun its deliberations. Ashley Bourget, 41, has been on trial since early last month in the death of Grant Norton, 59, whose body was discovered in a white plastic barrel dumped near the […]
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The provincial takeover of the embattled London-area public school board is starting to cascade to its board of directors, wiping out nine of their meetings in one month.
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A London man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after a fatal January 2022 south London crash.