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Alleged Rob Ford drug video ‘gone,’ source tells Gawker
The U.S. website that raised $200,000 in a bid to buy an alleged video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine now says its source has been told the video is “gone.” In a post on the...
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Scotiabank becomes International Children’s Games gold level sponsor
Scotiabank is contributing $50,000 and scores of volunteers to become the latest gold level sponsor to the 2013 Windsor-Essex International Children’s Games. “As Canada’s most international bank,...
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University of Windsor unveils new logo
Business was already brisk in sweats and t-shirts bearing the new school logo Wednesday outside the lecture hall in the new engineering building,where University of Windsor President Alan Wildeman...
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Accessibility advisory committee raises awareness
County council was reminded Wednesday of the need for accessibility for people of all abilities, while being encouraged to participate in this year’s wheelchair basketball game. Several members of the...
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Photos: Rollover near Ambassador Bridge
A 34-year-old Windsor man has been charged with careless driving after the semi truck he was driving rolled over near the Ambassador Bridge Wednesday night. Windsor police said the crash happened...
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CAW surprise: filleters contract derailed at last minute
A planned ratification vote for some CAW fish-plant filleters unexpectedly broke down Wednesday when union leaders learned the company had negotiated with individual workers. Dino Chiodo, president of...
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14th survivor pulled from rubble of collapsed Philadelphia building; 6 dead...
Kathy Matheson And Keith Collins, The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA – Searchers combing through the debris of a collapsed building and the remains of a damaged Salvation Army thrift store pulled...
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1,300-pound shark caught off the coast of California after 2-hour battle
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – News that a sport-fisherman reeled in — and kept — a potentially record-setting mako shark off the Southern California coast earlier this week is making waves with...
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Nice gesture helps Florida widow, 84, win $590M Powerball jackpot
Brent Kallestad, The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – When Gloria MacKenzie went to a Florida supermarket near Tampa last month to buy a Powerball ticket, another person in line did something nice...
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Families plucked from rooftops as floods ravage Europe
Dorothee Thiesing And Jan Gebert, The Associated Press DRESDEN, Germany – Desperate families were plucked from rooftops by helicopters, cars were swept away by raging torrents and levees failed without...
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Tecumseh man dies after train collides with SUV (with video)
A Tecumseh man is dead after a freight train slammed into his SUV Thursday morning and dragged it half a kilometre. Essex County OPP responded around 11 a.m. to the train crossing on Wallace Line,...
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Rob Ford crack video has a Windsor connection, Gawker reports
A man who allegedly supplied Toronto mayor Rob Ford with crack cocaine, and who may own the now-infamous videotape of him smoking from a glass pipe, fled to Windsor from Toronto after the story broke,...
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Three-car collision snarls traffic on E.C. Row
A three-car collision snarled traffic briefly Friday morning in the westbound lanes of E.C. Row near Jefferson Boulevard. Several motorists suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police and paramedics...
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Windsor police hunt dangerous fugitives after life-threatening attack
A violent criminal recently released from jail is again wanted by police after allegedly robbing and beating a man so savagely he required emergency brain surgery. Police are looking for Michael...
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OPP identify victim of fatal collision between train and SUV
Essex County OPP have identified the man killed Thursday when a freight train slammed into his SUV. Thomas Little, 26, of Tecumseh, died after the CP Rail train hit his Ford Explorer around 11 a.m. at...
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California’s ‘Night Stalker’ serial killer Richard Ramirez dies after decades...
Linda Deutsch And Don Thompson, The Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Richard Ramirez, the demonic serial killer who left satantic signs at murder scenes and mutilated victims’ bodies during a...
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Residential construction on upswing locally
The growing optimism in the area’s home building sector was verified in a Statistics Canada report released Friday that showed the metropolitan Windsor region enjoyed a 46 per cent increase in the...
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Amherstburg to consider promoting crime tips line
One of the safest communities in the nation is being asked to participate in an initiative to promote the Crime Stoppers program. Amherstburg council will consider Monday allowing Crime Stoppers...
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American expert says Wyandotte Street full of opportunity
An American expert on street walkability toured the Walkerville stretch of Wyandotte Street Friday afternoon to give city officials pointers on how to redesign the aging roadway. Dan Burden, co-founder...
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Watson pushes to make adoption more affordable
MP Jeff Watson (C – Essex) said Canada is in a crisis situation when it comes to child welfare – with 30,000 adoptable children across the country and an average of only 2,000 being adopted each year –...
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