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Catholic board unions say they’ll fight for costly contract provisions
Teachers and other unionized workers are bristling at the findings of a report on chronic Catholic school board overspending, vowing to fight attempts to weed out the money-draining costs in their...
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Windsor library workers share in $1-million payout
Imagine your office pool winning the lottery, and that’s probably what it felt like Thursday at the Windsor Public Library. A million-dollar pay equity settlement covering the past eight years saw...
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Jarvis: Dumbfounded and nauseated
Norbert Hartmann, the supervisor appointed by Ontario’s Ministry of Education to fix the calamity that is the Catholic school board’s finances, had just delivered a damning report that will leave...
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FBI releases photos of suspects in Boston Marathon bombing (with video)
The FBI has released photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and is asking for the public’s help in identifying them. FBI Agent Richard DesLauriers says the photos came from surveillance...
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Public high school teachers vote 84 per cent for new deal
Public high school teachers and support staff have voted 84 per cent in favour of a new agreement with the province. Members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation voted from Friday until...
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A’burg police testing out body-worn cameras (with video)
The next time you consider tussling with an Amherstburg police officer or telling her what you really think, be careful — you could be on video. Starting on Wednesday, some Amherstburg officers will be...
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Jury begins deliberating in father’s impaired driving trial
The jury has begun deliberating in the impaired driving case of David J. McLennan. McLennan, 51 is charged with impaired driving and dangerous driving causing death for the July 24, 2008 crash on Creek...
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Boston Bombing: Suspect’s uncle implores nephew to turn himself in (With Video)
Eric Tucker/The Associated Press MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. — In a passionate plea, an uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects urged one of his nephews to turn himself in Friday, saying he had...
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Windsor firefighters battle South Windsor house fire
Windsor firefighters are on the scene of a house fire in the 1100 block of Holburn Avenue. Crews arrived on the scene shortly before 5 p.m. and said the fire originated in the kitchen. All occupants...
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Mennonite ‘Healer’ sentenced for sex assault
In his Mennonite community, David Fehr is considered a healer. Beyond, he’ll be known as a sex offender. Fehr, 63, began serving a six-month jail sentence Friday after pleading guilty to sexually...
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Henderson: Let’s honour Eugene Whelan
They say it’s all in whom you know, which might explain why the Rt. Hon. Herb Gray has a $1.4-billion parkway named in his honour while his longtime peer, the late Gene Whelan, is stuck with a measly...
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Petcoke piles don’t pose health hazard, says state agency
The public needn’t worry about the massive piles of petroleum coke that have been sitting for months on the banks of the Detroit River, says the State of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality....
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Police disposal unit called to remove suspicious baggie from downtown bank
The Windsor Police Explosive Disposal Unit removed a bag of white powder Friday from a locked down downtown bank that they suspect may be cocaine. “At this point our tests are indicating that it may...
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The plugged-in world needs to unplug
Our increasingly plugged-in world needs to unplug, according to a new green initiative. A freshly created campaign dubbed If It’s Not In Use, Turn Off the Juice — which launched Friday in Windsor —...
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House fire causes $60,000 damage
A kitchen fire caused $60,000 in damage to a South Windsor home Friday afternoon. Windsor Fire and Rescue was called to a house in the 1100 block of Holburn Street. The fire, which officials said was...
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TV networks stick with real-life Boston drama on extraordinary day
David Bauder, The Associated Press NEW YORK, N.Y. – So much for scripted police procedurals. The marathon manhunt in Boston was a real-life drama that kept the biggest television networks and their...
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Five occupants of crashed stolen vehicle ‘lucky,’ police say
Five young adults who fled from police in a stolen vehicle early Saturday were lucky to escape serious injury after driving at high speed the wrong way on a one-way street, crashing into a stop sign...
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Woman recognized for volunteering, donating portion of liver (With Video)
It was one year ago Friday that Chrissy Klassen literally gave a part of herself to ensure another would live. The 24-year-old employee of the United Communities Credit Union headquarters in Essex gave...
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Interrogators await time with Boston bomb suspect
WATERTOWN, Mass. – Armed guards protected the hospital where the wounded surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect was in serious condition Saturday and unable to be questioned to determine the motives...
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Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today, longtime Gannett chief, dead in Florida at 89
COCOA BEACH, Fla. – Al Neuharth changed the look of American newspapers when he founded USA Today, filling the newspaper with breezy, easy-to-comprehend articles, attention-grabbing graphics and...
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