The future: For 3 rescued Cleveland women, a confusing ordeal of recovery...
Jesse Washington, The Associated Press Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an...
View ArticleHospice LifeWalk raises $46,000
Supporters of the Hospice of Windsor and Essex County turned out in large crowds Saturday morning for the 17th annual LifeWalk for Hospice. Among the walkers were friends of Beth England, who formed...
View ArticleMarchese threatens lawsuit against Windsor Regional for defamation in chemo...
Windsor Regional Hospital has been threatened with legal action from the drug supplier at the heart of the diluted chemotherapy drug scandal. A faxed letter addressed to Windsor Regional CEO David...
View ArticleWindsor Star open house draws busloads to newsroom and printing plant
Newsrooms are busy places, but The Windsor Star’s newsroom was even busier on Saturday as some 1,000 visitors streamed through during the newspaper’s open house to inaugurate its new downtown building....
View ArticleArrest made in case of Hamilton, Ont., man missing after pickup truck test drive
HAMILTON – Police say a Toronto man has been charged in connection with the case of missing Hamilton, Ont., man who disappeared after taking two men on a test drive of his pickup truck. Tim Bosma was...
View ArticleWindsor’s second tweed ride huge success, attendance triples
By Rob Benneian/For the Windsor Star Luck didn’t appear to be on Grace Laporte’s side. She had spent Saturday working at The Willistead Restaurant and Bar, when she would have rather been cycling the...
View ArticleLCBO negotiations continue, shoppers unfazed ahead of Victoria Day weekend
Windsorites were in no rush to stock up on booze this weekend despite the possibility of an LCBO strike just before Victoria Day weekend. “It’s not going to affect me,” said Casimir Kowalski, on his...
View ArticlePolice arrest 12-year-old boy in connection with stabbing death of 8-year-old...
VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. — Authorities on Saturday arrested the 12-year-old brother of an eight-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a rural Northern California community last...
View ArticleKate Upton goes from SI swimsuit model to Vogue cover star
NEW YORK — Kate Upton has gone from a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model to the front page of Vogue. Upton tells Vogue that runway modeling is “not what I set out to do” and that she desires...
View ArticleChris Hadfield: the spaceman who set the world a-Twitter (with video)
By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — On Monday, when Chris Hadfield tweets his last photo from orbit, talks to his last school class and flies a Russian Soyuz back to Kazakhstan, his blood will...
View ArticleScientists exploring natural remedies for cancer, Alzheimer’s meet in Windsor
A Windsor-born cell biologist from New York’s Columbia University who works with natural remedies to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s says it’s important to explore the potential of natural...
View ArticleFrost warning in effect for Windsor-Essex
Rob Benneian / For The Windsor Star Windsor will escape with just a dusting of frost on what Environment Canada officials are calling “the coldest day of the month.” Environment Canada has issued a...
View ArticleTwo boaters saved by U.S. Coast Guard
By Rob Benneian – For The Windsor Star Two men stranded in a small boat in chilly Lake St. Clair were located and rescued after their cellphone was traced by authorities Sunday morning. The coast...
View ArticleTiger Woods has final say for Garcia at Players
By Doug Ferguson, Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods had the last word against Sergio Garcia by winning The Players Championship on Sunday. Woods ended a weekend of verbal sparring...
View ArticlePolice say 19 victims in New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting included 2 children
By Chevel Johnson, The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neighbourhood Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19 people,...
View ArticlePhotos: Earth Wind and Fire smoke ‘em at Caesars Windsor
Earth, Wind & Fire had the house rockin’ at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor on Sunday, May 12, 2013. Earth, Wind & Fire performs at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor on Sunday, May 12, 2013....
View ArticleAmherstburg police hearing to resume
The Police Services Act hearing for an Amherstburg officer accused of assaulting a detainee continues Tuesday after a six-month hiatus. Const. Andrew Challans faces four charges in relation to a...
View ArticleSIU clears OPP in fatal Manning Road rollover
The province’s Special Investigations Unit has concluded that the OPP weren’t to blame for a rollover crash that killed a man after a high speed chase on Manning Road last month. The single-vehicle...
View ArticleNo oversight? No problem, Health Canada tells Marchese
Right before Marchese Hospital Solutions started supplying chemotherapy drugs to hospitals, a Health Canada representative told the company it didn’t need to worry about operating in a regulatory grey...
View ArticleWe may soon buy micro-power from a menu (with video)
Consumers might soon buy energy online, shopping for the best price or greenest technology or simply for what a neighbour has for sale. Or maybe we’ll just produce power for our own homes, according to...
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