Devon Cherrey-Rooke’s family never doubted how much he loved them and they loved him back. Sometime before his death on Aug. 7, 2022, he sent them a letter saying he was ready to move past the tough life he was living. “I’m done doing drugs. I miss my family, making good money, being trusted and […]
It is an unusual court exhibit at a trial about an unusual homicide. When investigators found it, it was wrapped in three layers of plastic and tucked into an old pillowcase. On Wednesday, the Superior Court jury at Ashley Bourget’s first-degree murder trial got a second look at a hatchet found in a homemade backyard […]
Even in the clutter of Ashley Bourget’s small Adelaide Street apartment, the black baseball bat was hard to miss.
If it hadn’t been for the trees, Grant Norton’s body might have been lost in the Forest City.
Judges keep good records, Justice Robert Gee noted as he sent a fentanyl dealer to prison again.
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 […]
One person is dead following a collision between a train and a vehicle just outside of Tillsonburg.
While Debb Beer’s family poured out their hearts, Joshua Biernacki put his hands over his face and sobbed. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Debb or talk about Debb, especially with (Beer’s daughter). We often find ourselves watching old videos and looking at pictures,” Beer’s mother Cindy said in her victim […]
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
The officer wrote in his notes that he was being dispatched to a sudden-death occurrence that was “a possible fentanyl overdose.” But OPP identification Const. Rob Laaper testified Tuesday the death was deemed to be suspicious in nature because of wounds on the deceased’s arms. “Cut to the bone. No blood,” he wrote in his […]