Las Vegas Strip triple murder suspect not shy about fast life in Twitter,...
Michelle Rindels, The Associated Press LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A YouTube video provided by police shows a Las Vegas triple murder suspect flashing a stack of $100 bills, one of many online displays of...
View ArticleMexican police find improvised border drug cannon that threw packets of...
MEXICALI, Mexico – Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California. Police told the...
View ArticleFriends, family pay tribute to TV, film director killed by large shark off...
Nick Perry, The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand – About 150 friends and family of a man killed in a shark attack wrote messages to him in the sand Thursday and stepped into the water at a New...
View Article‘Cannibal Cop’: Defence presses FBI agent on where fantasy ends and reality...
NEW YORK, N.Y. – In the middle of one of his thousands of Internet conversations about cannibalism, Gilberto Valle paused and claimed he’d never really do it. “I just like pushing the envelope,” he...
View ArticleMore residents in Windsor-Sarnia-Chatham use ER for non-emergencies compared...
More people in the Windsor, Chatham and Sarnia regions are using the emergency department when they don’t need to. Data from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and the provincial Ministry...
View ArticleFour people arrested in connection with counterfeit cash in Windsor
Windsorites, check your wallets: Police have made four arrests in connection with fake $100 USD bills in our community. The arrests the result of a fraud investigation after the counterfeit currency...
View ArticleWindsorites must end “apathy” on worsening frequency of fires, says fire chief
Fires are becoming more and more frequent in this city — yet residents remain apathetic, says Windsor’s fire chief. “For a city of our size and our sophistication … that is unacceptable,” said Chief...
View ArticleMike Graston’s Colour Cartoon For Saturday, March 02, 2013
For a full gallery of Graston’s colour cartoons, click here.
View ArticleMental health agency cuts beds to focus on outpatient treatment
Growing demand for children’s mental health services in Windsor-Essex is forcing local agencies to pare back residential beds and focus on outpatient services to keep more and more under-18s from...
View ArticleItalian brothers’ passion for the arts honoured
For decades, they lived next door to each other in the shadows of Erie Street, frequently arguing, but always loving one another like only two brothers could. And now, Armando Viselli, 85, and his late...
View ArticleWindsor police seek home invasion suspects
Windsor police are seeking three suspects in connection with a violent home invasion in downtown Windsor that saw a victim beaten with a bat. The incident occurred about 11:15 p.m. Thursday in the 100...
View ArticleLawyer challenges whether snowmobiler’s blood taken without consent
An Amherstburg police officer instrumental in obtaining blood samples from a man later charged with impaired driving causing death in a snowmobile accident struggled in court Friday to explain if the...
View ArticleFour charged in counterfeit cash scheme each facing several charges
As Windsor police search for more victims in a counterfeit cash investigation, they have slapped each of the four suspects with several charges. Police were called to a gas station in the 1800 block of...
View ArticleDying man throws himself a funeral and wake
On a Sunday in late January, the friends and family of Reg Lansdowne gathered in his memory, delivering eulogies around the plain pine coffin he built for himself. And from that plain pine box,...
View ArticleThree month probe by Chatham police leads to eight arrests
Police have arrested eight people on dozens of charges following a three-month probe into several property crimes throughout Chatham-Kent. The Chatham-Kent Police Community Patrol and Criminal...
View ArticleComatose snowboarder transferred to Hotel Dieu
A local snowboarder in a coma since an accident at a Michigan ski resort nearly five weeks ago has been transferred to a Windsor hospital. Cole Kierdorf, 20, was considered in stable enough condition...
View ArticleNo budging: Obama, Republicans blame each other at sequester deadline
WASHINGTON – Gridlocked once more, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders refused to budge in their budget standoff Friday as $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts bore...
View ArticleU.S. failure to avoid budget crisis will hurt Canada
WASHINGTON – America’s failure to avoid its latest budgetary crisis – the so-called sequester – could cripple Canadian exports, hampering the growth of Canada’s economy as well as causing long waits...
View ArticleLeamington jogger assaulted
Essex County OPP are searching for two suspects they say assaulted a 27-year-old man who was jogging on the Chrysler Greenway Thursday. The Leamington man was running at approximately 10:30 p.m. near...
View ArticleOPP probes Leamington stabbing
Leamington – The Ontario Provincial Police are investigating an early morning stabbing at the Mezza’s Bar at 38 Talbot St. W., in Leamington. At about 2:30 a.m., police say, an altercation involving...
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