Video: Nurse Involved In Pregnant Kate Joke Dies
The Associated Press LONDON – A nurse involved in a prank telephone call seeking information about the Duchess of Cambridge has died, King Edward VII hospital said Friday. The hospital said Jacintha...
View ArticlePolice catch man vandalizing wall
Police charged a 23-year-old Windsor man with mischief after officers caught him vandalizing a brick wall with spray paint early Thursday morning. A Windsor Police K-9 unit was patrolling the 5400...
View ArticleChildren’s Christmas party, cancelled by teacher sanctions, revived
The Christmas party thrown by Vincent Massey high school students for underprivileged kids that was cancelled because of teachers union sanctions has now been revived. “It’s a yes!” Karren Wang, a...
View ArticleManna from heaven
Like manna from heaven, unsuspecting patrons of Friday morning’s Windsor Symphony concert at Assumption Chapel entered the parking lot adjacent to Assumption Church and were dinged with a hefty $7...
View ArticleChrysler employees give back in city’s largest toy drive
For a tenth straight year, Chrysler Canada’s Windsor Assembly Plant employees participated in the city’s largest toy drive. Several minivans full of new toys valued at over $15,000 were donated to...
View ArticleFood poisoning hard to prove – and complaint records hard to get
The Ottawa E. coli case that prompted the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit to bar restaurants from serving raw kibbeh may not have been caused by the ground beef dish after all. Eric Leclair, head of...
View ArticlePublic open house scheduled for new Howard Avenue roundabout
A public education open house is being held Monday for people seeking more information on the new roundabout along the $1.4-billion Herb Gray Parkway – formerly the Windsor-Essex Parkway. The new...
View ArticleMan carrying found shotgun gets the minimum: three years
A 39-year-old Windsor man with mental health issues was sentenced Friday to three years in prison – the mandatory minimum — for having a loaded gun he found, a punishment his lawyer and even the judge...
View ArticleWFCU Centre gate naming
The Windsor Family Credit Union Centre held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday to unveil a re-branded Gate 3. The entrance will now be known as the Windsor Crossing VIP Entrance. Windsor Crossing has...
View ArticleAmherstburg council to discuss leak of confidential report
AMHERSTBURG Town council will meet behind closed doors Monday to discuss the leaking of a confidential workplace harassment investigation report to The Windsor Star. Acting CAO Kristina Pozar Di Paolo...
View ArticleStock fraudster living good life in Michigan
Steven Sulja and his partners conned investors out of $5.6 million. Hyping his family’s struggling lumberyard in Colchester as an expanding international construction company with hundreds of millions...
View ArticleGroup Hug Apparel lends helping hand to homeless centre
Andrew Banar just keeps rocking on, handing a cheque for $250 from proceeds of his T-shirt sales to the Street Help Unit 7 Drop In Centre Saturday morning. Wearing one of his signature T-shirts,...
View ArticleTrudeau fans ready to recruit supporters
Justin Trudeau made a virtual stop in Windsor Saturday, appearing by webcam at the Rose City Islamic Centre to energize supporters at his local campaign kickoff. About 100 people attended the event,...
View ArticleAnger grows at Australian radio station over royal pregnancy hoax after UK...
Sylvia Hui, The Associated Press LONDON – It started out as a joke, but ended in tragedy. The sudden death of a nurse who unwittingly accepted a prank call to a London hospital about Prince William’s...
View ArticleBar fight sends three men to hospital with minor injuries
Police have charged a 19-year-old man with two counts of assault after a downtown bar brawl early Sunday. Staff Sgt. Jeff Verkoeyen said shortly after 2 a.m. a Boom Boom Room nightclub bouncer found...
View ArticleTop court asked to settle battle over Tommy Douglas intelligence dossier
Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to settle a seven-year battle to lift the shroud of secrecy over a decades-old intelligence dossier on socialist...
View ArticleAustralian radio chairman says station reviewing practices after royal hoax...
Gregory Katz, The Associated Press LONDON – The reverberations from the death of a nurse who accepted a hoax phone call about the ill Duchess of Cambridge spread through two countries Sunday, as...
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