NDP insists on cuts to auto insurance
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is keeping her foot on the accelerator when it comes to cutting auto insurance premiums, even if it means speeding into a spring election. Horwath insists that if the minority...
View Article‘We miss our little ones,’ attendees told at fundraiser for families of I-75...
Pat Greenwood choked up as he took the stage at a fundraiser held for the families of the victims of a tragic multi-vehicle crash on I-75 in Detroit on Jan. 31. “We miss our little ones,” he told the...
View ArticleSnow kills 8 in Japan over weekend, including mother and 3 children buried in...
TOKYO – Heavy snow that fell in northern Japan over the weekend killed eight people on Hokkaido island, including a family whose car became buried. Kazuyo Miyashita, 40, her two daughters Misa, 17, and...
View ArticleTamed Dragon supply ship arrives at space station, perfect rendezvous after a...
Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A privately owned Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering a ton of supplies with high-flying finesse...
View ArticleUpdated: Former Windsor priest to be sentenced for sexual abuse
William Hodgson Marshall, the disgraced former Catholic priest who sexually abused children for decades, will be sentenced this afternoon after pleading guilty in Ontario court this morning to the...
View ArticleWindsor police officer pleads guilty to discreditable conduct
Windsor police Const. Aaron Naklie pleaded guilty to discreditable conduct Monday afternoon and loses 24 hours of pay. Naklie admitted wrongdoing when he lectured a motorist, who had driven through an...
View ArticleMoroun slips on list of world’s richest people
Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun has slipped considerably on the list of the richest people in the world, according to the annual billionaires list released Monday by Forbes magazine. Moroun is...
View ArticleEssex firefighters douse trailer park blaze
Essex firefighters doused a mobile home blaze within minutes of arriving at the fire Monday morning in Viscount Estates in the 100 block of Steven Court. The blaze, which started around 10:15 a.m.,...
View ArticleHoly handover: Man dressed as Batman turns suspected burglar in to UK police...
LONDON – A man dressed as Batman has brought a suspected burglar into a police station in northern England. West Yorkshire Police said Monday that they do not know the identity of the man who appeared...
View ArticleBaby delivered after parents killed in New York City hit-and-run crash dies;...
NEW YORK, N.Y. – A baby delivered after his parents were killed in a New York City hit-and-run accident died early Monday, a community spokesman said. Isaac Abraham, who serves as a spokesman for the...
View ArticleArgument turns violent, Windsor man slashed in face with box cutters
Police arrested a Windsor man late Saturday after he allegedly slashed someone in the face with a box cutter during a heated argument. Around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, officers went to the 600 block of...
View ArticleConstruction begins on Odette renovations
Construction crews have started work transforming the University of Windsor’s former bookstore into an expansion for the Odette School of business. The south wing of the Odette Building is being...
View ArticleNewcomers see employment progress
When cancer researcher Indrajit Sinha couldn’t find a job in Windsor, he made one for himself. Sinha, 41, formed Biomedcore in late 2011 after spending a year trying to find work and almost going...
View ArticleEnvironmental concerns raised over massive black pile on riverfront
It started out as a blemish on the Detroit riverfront, but during the past several weeks has mushroomed into a massive black mound. The pile of what was first thought to be coal has triggered...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Hugo Chavez dies: vice-president Maduro
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died following a battle with cancer, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said today. Chavez died at 4:25 p.m., Maduro said. Chavez, who won re-election to a third...
View ArticleCyclists sense green “cultural shift” with latest Windsor budget
In what some are heralding as a greener cultural shift for Windsor, bikes and buses are among the big winners in this year’s municipal budget approved Monday night. Millions of new tax dollars will be...
View ArticleTourism focus of upcoming spring conference
Tourism will be the talk of the town during Ontario’s Southwest Spring Conference March 19 to 21 at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts. “The overall message that we hope delegates will walk away with...
View ArticleBrazen art thief latest crook at Ottawa Street second-hand shop (with videos)
Don’t let television shows like Pawn Stars fool you — the second-hand dealer business isn’t always entertaining. Just ask Lawrence Holland of Holland Consignment Shoppe and Auction House on Ottawa...
View ArticleJarvis: Report recommends cleaning house
The Catholic school board’s top four administrators – its entire executive council – should be replaced, a parent committee has told a government-appointed supervisor. “Changing the Board culture would...
View ArticleOfficer faces discreditable conduct charge
A Windsor police officer has pleaded not guilty to a discreditable conduct charge after allegedly threatening his estranged wife in an email. Sgt. Mark Stock sent an email to Manon Blanchette in April...
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