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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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City funding for encampment outreach and 88 shelter beds is poised to continue, but more than $600,000 in funding for homeless drop-in services at one London agency is in jeopardy after a tie vote Monday at a city council committee. Nearly $3.6 million in funding was endorsed by the community and protective services committee for […]
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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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Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating a two-vehicle crash involving a suspected stolen vehicle southwest of London that sent one person to hospital. Middlesex OPP were investigating an incident involving a suspected stolen vehicle on Melbourne Road, just southeast of Melbourne, at approximately 7:20 a.m. Saturday, police said. The vehicle was then involved in a two-vehicle […]
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SARNIA – A Lambton County man convicted of mischief around the time a stretch of Highway 402 was shuttered during the 2022 so-called Freedom Convoy has been jailed for a series of new crimes including assaulting and obstructing a police officer. Steve Verberne, 48, from Watford, recently pleaded guilty to those two charges along 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 […]