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Who’s responsible for downtown Windsor litter?
Cigarette butts. Ancient coffee cups. Wads of used chewing gum stomped flat and blackened with age. Windsor’s warm weather season has just begun, but these artifacts and more show that the city core...
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Car insurance budget promise without details, brokers say
Thursday’s Liberal budget promise to cut auto insurance premiums by 15 per cent may sound good, but local brokers wonder how it will ever become a reality. “It’s a great topic for discussion, but I...
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Mike Graston’s Colour Cartoon For Friday, May 03, 2013
For a full gallery of Graston’s colour cartoons, click here....
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Dialysis unit remains open after suspected drunk grandfather crashes through...
Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital’s satellite dialysis unit will remain open today, despite heavy damage after an allegedly drunk driver crashed through the wall on the way to get his grandkids. Windsor police...
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Hospital to hold debriefing over chemo drug scandal
Windsor Regional Hospital president and CEO David Musyj is promising a formal debriefing of staff involved in the scandal over watered-down chemotherapy drugs. “What we’re doing is we’re going to be...
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Musyj happy with community care funding in budget
Windsor Regional Hospital president and CEO David Musyj says he is pleased that the province is injecting more money into community care, which may help overburdened hospitals. “That’s very positive at...
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County Road 8 reopens after fatal crash in A’burg
One person is dead following a crash on County Road 8 in Amherstburg overnight. Tecumseh fire reported a vehicle in the ditch along County Road 8 between Howard Avenue and Holden Road just after 12:30...
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Belgian mystery: After thieves toss small fortune on street, who’s hiding the...
Raf Casert, The Associated Press ZEDELGEM, Belgium – On a Saturday evening two weeks ago in Zedelgem, townsfolk were disturbed by the wail of a siren and the shriek of tires, the din of a high-speed...
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Humane society finds young dog starved, then left tied to a fence
The humane society is calling it a “serious case of animal cruelty” after someone starved a young dog for weeks, then abandoned him to die tied to a fence . The Windsor-Essex County Humane Society...
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Scene of alleged Spitfire sexual assault loses liquor licence, may be shut down
A local nightclub which was the scene of an alleged sexual assault by Windsor Spitfire Ben Johnson against a 16-year-old female was shut down Thursday night from serving alcohol and is facing having...
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New floor of campus medical building offers nursing simulation (with video)
Meet your patients: They blink, they breathe, their bowels gurgle, and they have vital signs — as long as you don’t unplug them. A roomful of electronic medical mannequins is just one feature of the...
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Needle danger ends some garbage pickups
Windsorites are being warned their garbage will no longer be picked up if it’s put to the curb in oversized and inappropriate trash containers. Too many workers are being pricked by needles or...
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River bistro proposal before city council Monday
With the weather turned beautiful, the tulips and magnolias in full bloom and the ball diamonds opening this weekend, another glorious Windsor summer is unfolding. Why, then, is the city’s only...
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Horse whose mother was saved from slaughterhouse wins long-shot race (With...
CICERO, Ill. – He may never run for the Kentucky Derby roses, but Illinois race horse Magna Fortuna and his owners are celebrating a victory nonetheless — his survival. The 3-year-old gelding’s name...
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High driver totals cars
A 34-year-old Windsor man is in police custody charged with impaired driving after plowing into a parked car while high on drugs. Police officers arrested the man after being called to Tecumseh Road...
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New president of NRA sure to inflame debate (updated)
HOUSTON – The incoming leader of an influential gun rights lobbying group has a penchant for bold statements that are sure to inflame an already explosive national debate over gun control. James Porter...
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City plant sale draws hundreds of eager growers
Rob Benneian/For The Windsor Star WINDSOR — On your mark, get set, grow. Hundreds of green thumbs gathered Saturday at Lanspeary Park Greenhouse for the City of Windsor’s annual Parks and Recreation...
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Petapalooza Pet Expo kicks off
Her name is Quincy, but Ken Killen’s wife calls their adopted shelter pet Velcro. “My wife calls her Velcro because she’s always so close to me,” LaSalle’s Ken Killen, 62, said Saturday while patting...
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Newtown task force debates what to do with school where 20 students, 6...
NEWTOWN – Newtown, Conn., officials have met to discuss what to do with the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December, but they haven’t made a decision....
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Harper seeks bids for new EAP ads
Bruce Cheadle/The Canadian Press The Harper government is looking for a creative contractor to continue those feel-good “economic action plan” ads that have blanketed the airwaves for the past four...
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