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The trouble with Ouellette Manor
There’s a sign in chipped white paint on the front door of Ouellette Manor. It reads “Think security.” Residents at the community housing high rise do think security. They think about it while fellow...
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School board says teachers have ‘productive’ day — without students
There was no missing the irony: After threatening to stage a walkout, public elementary school teachers across Windsor-Essex showed up for work on Friday — only to find they had no one to teach....
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Diamond Jubilee medal for Drouillard Place’s Marina Clemens
Former Windsor city councillor Joyce Zuk still has a card from Marina Clemens that got the rookie politician through many a meeting when she was the only woman at the council table. “I remember how...
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Windsor’s St. Clair College and College Boreal sign student exchange pact
St. Clair College and its French-language counterpart College Boreal hailed a new arrangement Friday that helps share resources and provide educational opportunities for students. The memorandum of...
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‘Barricaded’ family traumatized by police ordeal
Having her house surrounded by tactical police and seeing her innocent husband arrested was bad enough, but the taunts her children must endure hurt the most. Breihan Marynewich lives in the Comber...
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Catholic school support workers and board ratify contract
The Windsor Essex Catholic School Board and two CUPE locals representing educational assistants, early childhood educators and support workers ratified a two-year collective agreement Friday. According...
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Toronto man sentenced in $2.1 million Amherstburg pot bust
A Toronto man arrested in November in a $2.1 million drug bust was handed a 3 ½-year sentence Friday, a lightning quick court completion by judicial standards. Edward Seery, 33, pleaded guilty within a...
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E-waste and appliance recycling event is Saturday
Residents in need of disposing electronic waste or out of date appliances can recycle them Saturday at two Windsor Home Depot stores. Habitat for Humanity is sponsoring the event and will recycle the...
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Passenger gives birth aboard flight over Armenia, names baby after flight...
YEREVAN, Armenia – A passenger has given birth aboard a plane flying over Armenia and named her daughter after one of the flight attendants who helped with the delivery. The birth of the healthy baby...
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Windsor temps soar to record
Although winter is not even one third of the way through, it felt like the onset of spring over the weekend as Windsor’s balmy temperatures broke records. Environment Canada meteorologist Ria Alsen...
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Haiti police: Brakes failed in traffic accident that killed 4 Michigan...
Trenton Daniel, The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Failing brakes were the cause of a traffic accident in Haiti that killed four Michigan residents on a medical mission, Haitian police said...
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Family quarrels add layer of intrigue to lottery winner’s death by cyanide...
Jason Keyser, The Associated Press CHICAGO – In the week since news surfaced that an Indian-American man in Chicago was poisoned to death with cyanide just before he was to collect a lottery payout,...
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Palms casino in Las Vegas faces $1M fine; undercover agents provided with...
Hannah Dreier, The Associated Press LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The company that owns the Palms Casino Resort said Friday it will pay $1 million in fines after employees of casino nightclubs accepted payments to...
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Health officials say fast food restaurant lettuce likely cause of E. coli...
Health officials are blaming shredded lettuce used at KFC and KFC-Taco Bell restaurants for 26 E. coli outbreaks across Ontario and the Maritimes. The lettuce, which affected 10 people in Ontario, 10...
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Ohio governments face online threats amid rape case against high school students
Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Associated Press STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – Shortly after Police Chief William McCafferty arrived at the office one day this week, he found an email from someone claiming to be a...
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Police hunt two suspects wanted for armed robbery spree in Chatham
Chatham-Kent police are searching for two disguised suspects involved in a string of overnight armed robberies. The OPP canine unit and OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit are assisting police in a search of...
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Mutilated Mexican dog runs with prosthetic front legs
MEXICO CITY — A dog reportedly mutilated by Mexican drug traffickers is recovering at a sanctuary for abused and abandoned dogs. Pay de Limon, or Lemon Pie, was fitted with prosthetic front legs last...
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Wow, that’s quite the name
MONTREAL – First Kate and now Kim. Suddenly it seems, half the world is on womb watch. And talking names. But while Ms. Kardashian and Kanye West are busy coming up with a suitable tag for their...
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Windsor Weekend In Pictures
Maddox Wilson, 2, enjoys the swing at Willistead Park on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Maddox and his mother, Sabina Leszczynski, were enjoying the record-breaking temperatures. (DAX MELMER / The Windsor...
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Chatham-Kent OPP officer innocent of sexual assault
The province’s Special Investigations Unit has concluded a Chatham-Kent OPP officer is innocent of sexual assault. The OPP brought the complaint to the SIU, an arm’s length agency that investigates...
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