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Missing Essex County man found
Windsor Police have located a 24-year-old man who went missing from Stoney Point Friday night. Fehri Knani, a resident at Chez Nous Lodge located at 6815 Essex County Road 2, left the residence on foot...
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Conn. gunman’s father: ‘Our family is grieving along with all those who have...
The Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. – The father of the gunman in the Connecticut school rampage says his family is saddened and struggling to make sense of what happened. Peter Lanza says in a...
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Newtown closes in on itself as police release names of massacre victims
William Marsden/Postmedia News NEWTOWN, Conn. – Once upon a time, Newtown, Conn., was an innocent, storybook town where everyone seemed to live in safe soapbox houses with green shutters, sprawling...
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Portraits of Conn. shooting victims show lives at their very start, ended in...
Matt Sedensky, The Associated Press Most died at the very start of their young lives, tiny victims taken in a way not fit for anyone regardless of age. Others found their life’s work in sheltering...
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Quick thinking motorists block drunk driver
Windsor police thanked motorists who blocked off a vehicle that was behaving erratically Saturday night, leading to the arrest of an impaired driver. Police said they responded to a call for an...
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Man charged with running red light: Vehicle sent slamming into planter
Police charged a driver with running a red light after a collision that sent a vehicle slamming into a concrete flower planter downtown Saturday night, trapping a woman inside. Police responded to the...
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Neglected dog honks for help after left in truck with two more dogs and two cats
The Canadian Press LONDON, Ont. – Several neglected dogs and cats have been rescued in London, Ont., after one of the dogs alerted authorities by honking the horn of a truck where they were being held...
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CUPE agrees to sick day cuts in new four-year deal
The new contract Windsor’s unionized workforce is set to vote on Monday night reduces the number of annual sick days that employees may claim, but it promises four years of labour peace with CUPE’s...
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Another sorrowful trip for Obama to grieving town reeling from unimaginable...
Jim Kuhnhenn, The Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. – For President Barack Obama, it was another sorrowful visit to another grieving community full of broken hearts from unimaginable violence. The spot,...
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Police: Conn. gunman had hundreds of rounds of ammunition, enough to kill...
Matt Apuzzo And Pat Eaton-Robb, The Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. – The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition —...
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Conn. gov.: Gunman killed self as responders closed in, raising spectre of...
John Christoffersen And Matt Apuzzo, The Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. – The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage committed suicide as first responders closed in, the governor said Sunday,...
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Police say no danger after threat to Connecticut church where shooter,...
Ted Shaffrey And David Klepper, The Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. – Worshippers hurriedly left a church Sunday when someone phoned in a threat as parishioners remembered 20 children and six adults...
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Obama pays tribute to Connecticut victims, offers ‘love and prayers of a nation’
NEWTOWN, Conn. – He spoke for a nation in sorrow, but the slaughter of all those little boys and girls left President Barack Obama, like so many others, reaching for words. Alone on a spare stage after...
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Democrats call for ban on assault weapons, want commission to examine gun...
Anne Flaherty, The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Democratic lawmakers said Sunday that military-style assault weapons should be banned and that a national commission should be established to examine...
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Graston cartoon resonates worldwide
Graston’s image on windsorstar.com soon went viral worldwide, with 84,649 views Saturday and as of Sunday night, it had another 40,033. It’s been liked more than 14,000 times on Facebook and has more...
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In Newtown, white crosses, tidy lawns and teddy bears for sale
William Marsden/Postmedia News NEWTOWN, Conn. – It’s a grey day. A misty rain is falling. The light is beginning to fade and Greg Zanis, 62, is penciling in another name of a dead first grader on a...
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City approves landfill spending
Windsor will be sending slightly more to the Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority in 2013, despite calling on all agencies to submit spending plans that could see cuts of up to 10 per cent. But in...
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CAW Local 200 donates 30,000 to community organizations
CAW Local 200 donated $30,000 to six community organizations Monday to commemorate the local’s 71st anniversary. The annual donation comes from Local 200′s social justice fund, which is negotiated with...
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Fate of Transit Windsor’s iPad-reading bus driver to remain secret
Transit Windsor won’t reveal what discipline, if any, it meted out to a bus driver caught on video reading and driving with an iPad balanced on the steering wheel. Patrick Delmore, director of...
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Funerals begin as Newtown mourns its dead
By William Marsden NEWTOWN, CONN. — In the quiet of a hilltop community cemetery and under a grey misty sky, six-year-old Jack Pinto was buried Monday after a solemn funeral ceremony attended by...
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