Jim McCormick says he didn’t want to be idle.
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It was a snippet from the main witness’s testimony at Craig Allan’s second-degree murder that the Crown wanted the judge to hear again. Assistant Crown attorney Marcia Hilliard, during her closing argument, replayed for Superior Court Justice Patricia Moore one of several confrontational moments between the witness, who was an associate of Allan’s and whose […]
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Before they found Grant Norton’s body, the police already had information that he might have been killed. “We had information that he was involved in the illicit drug culture and that he had been robbed . . . and killed,” London police Det.-Const. Blake Morrison, who has spent years on the investigation into Norton’s death, […]
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A city council committee endorsed increased funding for a family doctor recruitment strategy that has had some success, even if some members are uneasy about it. Council’s community and protective services committee ultimately recommended an $80,000 funding extension to the primary-care recruitment and retention program, funded through the city-funded London Economic Development Corp. (LEDC) reserve […]
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After he had been singled out as a killer, Craig Allan appeared to realize he had reached a fork in the road. London police Det. Sgt. Micah Bourdeau had just told him that Allan’s associate had spoken to the police and pointed the finger at Allan as the one who killed London musician Daniel Fawcett, […]
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Two people face charges following a Woodstock crash involving two drivers who were racing, police say. Emergency crews were called Sunday around 2:37 a.m. to a crash at the intersection of Springbank and Cree avenues, where investigators determined two vehicles appeared to be racing when they approached a bend in the road and collided with […]
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For two days, Mathew Riley has been in a London courtroom piecing together what he saw and heard in the hours before Shaniqua Henry died. Henry was his friend and she was at his house in the early morning hours of July 19, 2022. He was part of a group with Henry who drove around […]
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The London region's Indigenous health agency is in turmoil, jeopardizing the well-being of staff and health of thousands of patients
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The witness made it clear that if there was any plan at all the night London musician Daniel Fawcett was fatally stabbed, it certainly wasn’t one that would leave him dead. “Dan thought I was going to be selling him drugs. We thought we were going to beat him up,” said the reluctant Crown witness […]
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A police officer testified Friday he saw three men near a woman's body when he arrived at a home on Chippewa of the Thames First Nation