London Free Press
A pedestrian is dead in Ingersoll after being struck by a train, Ontario Provincial Police in Oxford County said on Monday morning. Police closed Mutual Street North (between Carnegie Street and Wilson Street) and Thames Street South (between Carnegie Street and Oxford Lane) amid the investigation and the OPP was warning drivers to avoid the […]
London Free Press
A Cambridge resident faces charges, including of operating a vehicle while impaired, following a weekend car-train collision in Oxford County, police say. The Saturday morning collision occurred about 5:30 a.m. in Blandford-Blenheim, a largely rural township northeast of Woodstock, Ontario Provincial Police said. Police said a 38-year-old had minor injuries from the collision and was […]
London Free Press
A driver killed in a crash southwest of London died after their vehicle struck a tree and burst into flames, provincial police say. Emergency crews responded Monday around 12:45 p.m. to a single-vehicle collision on Pratt Siding Road in Southwest Middlesex, the OPP said. Investigators determined the vehicle left the road, struck a tree and […]
London Free Press
Friends of a young father originally from Strathroy who was killed at a precast concrete manufacturing plant are raising money to support his two young children and his mother.  Nick Wood, 37, died May 23 in a workplace incident at Fritz-Alder Precast, in the Bruce County community of Chepstow. The company produces large concrete walls […]
Interlochen Public Radio
Opioid settlements with companies like Purdue Pharma, Walmart, and Johnson & Johnson have led to headline-grabbing multibillion-dollar payouts. But most of the windfall is flowing to state and local governments, not directly to victims of the crisis.