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FINA official calls Windsor a paradise
The FINA crew now knows where Windsor is, and they think it’s nothing short of a paradise. Officials with FINA are touring Windsor this weekend as they consider bringing the prestigious 25-metre World...
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Windsor’s Downtown Mission celebrates 40 years of helping people
The United Church Downtown Mission hands out more than 130,000 meals a year, but its most important job is serving up hope. The mission celebrated its 40th anniversary Saturday night with a sold out...
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Victim sustains serious injuries in baseball bat attack in West Windsor
A 21-year-old man who had just been released from the Windsor jail was attacked Sunday a couple of blocks away by two men wearing face masks and armed with baseball bats. The attack occurred in the 700...
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Faith helped A’burg businessman cope with tragedies
A funeral service was held Saturday for a longtime Amherstburg businessman who relied on faith to first steer his life away from crime in the 1990s and then find solace through the tragedy of losing...
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Essex co-op housing development saved by court decision
An Essex co-operative housing development that had been placed in receivership and faced the prospect of being sold off piecemeal, will be preserved following a court decision that ends years of court...
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U of W researcher explores murky territory between memory and belief
If you’re in a relationship, perhaps you’ve lived one of those awkward moments when you tell a story about something that happened to you, only to have your significant other chime in, “Actually, that...
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Tecumseh golf course would cost $1.8 million
It would cost $1.8 million for Tecumseh to develop a nine-hole golf course at its newly acquired Lakewood Park South, a new report shows. Even though the park used to be the 18-hole Lakewood Golf...
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Police consider camera surveillence in cars or worn by officers
Local police services are considering equipping officers with video cameras that they say would enhance openness and transparency while reducing court costs and raising conviction rates. Amherstburg...
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Windsor launches save-the-fireworks campaign
Windsor’s business community has launched a fundraising campaign to save the 2013 edition of the Target Fireworks, the fiery spectacle on the Detroit River which organizers bill as the biggest annual...
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Potential dangerous offender may show psychopathic tendencies: psychiatrist
A psychiatrist told a court Monday that Scott McLaughlin, a career criminal who kidnapped and raped a 71-year-old woman and who is fighting a rare dangerous-offender designation, may show signs of...
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Fear on Michigan roads over random shootings
A string of apparently random shootings on Michigan roads has drivers and residents on edge while police search for the suspect. Police have logged 22 reports of shots fired at vehicles and people...
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Arson charges withdrawn in burned body shop case
Samir Salman, scheduled to start a two-week trial Monday for allegedly burning down his brother’s auto-body shop two years ago, has seen the case against him withdrawn. “The Crown reviewed the file,...
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Shooter pleads guilty to lesser crime
The man who fired first in a gangland-style gunfight downtown that ended in his own friend getting killed is awaiting sentencing for his role in the 2009 incident. Daud Hussein, 26, pleaded guilty to...
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Chief seeks help in fighting killer fires
Windsor has the highest rate of fatal fires in Ontario, according to a recent survey, and a big reason is not enough local homes have smoke alarms, says Windsor Fire and Rescue Chief Bruce Montone....
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Windsor streets to herald Tiger excitement
World Series fever will hit Windsor’s streets in time for the October classic about to begin across the river. City council on Monday night approved a request from the mayor to fund the making and...
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Hospital sticker shock for city council
If Windsor needs a new hospital with an estimated price tag in excess of a billion dollars, then the province needs to come up with a new shared funding formula, city councillors told an expert panel...
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Woman drives 212 km/h on 401 with toddlers loose in car
A Toronto woman is facing several charges after provincial police caught her reaching a speed of 212 km/h on Highway 401 — with two toddlers in her car. According to OPP, the young children — a...
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Police Act charges pending for drinking incident
Police Act charges are pending against Windsor officers involved in a drinking incident at the Ontario Police College last week, Chief Al Frederick said Tuesday. Frederick declined to say how many...
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Amherstburg Echo shutters its presses
After 138 years, the Amherstburg Echo is shutting down. The weekly newspaper, which has been covering the community since 1874, had just one full-time reporter when its parent company Sun Media decided...
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Parkway dirt hauling deal in jeopardy
LAKESHORE, Ont. — An official with the Windsor-Essex Parkway contractor told council Tuesday the town’s opposition to dirt going from the border highway project to the Maidstone landfill could force...
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