London Free Press
A major academic building at Western University is closed while London police investigate a suspicious fire that has forced the university to move some exams. London firefighters responded at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to the Social Sciences Centre. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze but damage was significant and fire investigators were called in, the department said […]
London Free Press
An investigation was underway Thursday after fire damage a London church. London Fire Department officials said in a statement on social media shortly before 6 a.m. that firefighters were at the scene of a blaze at Our Saviour Lutheran Church, located at 1449 Brydges St. in the city’s east end. Officials called it “an exterior […]
London Free Press
Charges have been laid after London police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city’s north end early Tuesday, police say. At around 1 a.m., a group of men was in a parking garage in the 700 block of Kipps Lane, near the intersection of Adelaide Street North, when they […]
London Free Press
A 35-year-old St. Thomas man is facing arson charges after a fire at a home north of the city’s core, police say. Police were called to a home at 54 St. Catharine St. in St. Thomas on March 1 for reports of a fire. St. Thomas firefighters worked to extinguish the flames and help the […]
London Free Press
A skull mailbox, burned e-bikes, scooters and shacks in the backyard remained in the rubble Friday of an east London home destroyed by fire one day prior. Surrounded by yellow tape, police cruisers, and fire investigators, the home at 1884 Avalon St. – near the intersection of Clarke Road and Dundas Street – was known […]
Great Lakes Commission
Firefighters rescued a northern Michigan man on April 12 after he sank up to his waist in sand on the shore of Lake Michigan near Leland while rock hunting with […]
London Free Press
A house fire Thursday afternoon in east London left one person with serious injuries and forced residents to vacate neighbouring homes, London police say. Emergency crews responded shortly after 3 p.m. to the fire in a home on Avalon Street, north of Clarke Road and Dundas Street, where paramedics took one person to hospital with […]
London Free Press
A 40-year-old man and a teenager are charged in a suspicious fire at a vacant warehouse in St. Thomas earlier this week, police said. A 40-year-old St. Thomas man is charged with arson and failing to comply with a probation order in the fire at the former Weatherhead Co. of Canada Ltd. property at 100 […]
London Free Press
A 24-year-old faces charges, including impaired operation, after a boat capsized near a boat launch in Port Stanley, Ontario Provincial police say. The boat overturned near the launch on Carlow Road in the beachside community about 40 kilometres south of London at about 5 p.m. on April 13, Elgin OPP said. Police, paramedics and Central […]
London Free Press
A massive vacant warehouse fire in St. Thomas that sent black smoke billowing across the city is now under police investigation. “The fire has been deemed suspicious and is currently under investigation by our criminal investigation bureau,” St. Thomas police spokesperson Samanatha Wakefield said on Tuesday morning. The fire at the former Weatherhead Co. of […]
London Free Press
A 22-year-old from the Toronto area was killed in a vehicle crash north of Innerkip in Oxford County on Monday afternoon, police say. Oxford County OPP said they, along with firefighters and paramedics, were called to a collision between a sedan and a commercial motor vehicle at the intersection of Oxford County Road 8 and […]