Donations roll in for 120 residents displaced by seniors’ home fire
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Electronics stolen in brazen gunpoint robbery of delivery van: OPP
A brazen daylight robbery saw a man assaulted at gunpoint, and a truck filled with electronics taken, police say. On Wednesday at about 12:30 p.m. Oxford OPP were called to a robbery on 14th Line near Oxford Road 33, in East-Zorra Tavistock Township, northeast of Woodstock. OPP say a black Ford F150 pickup truck purposely struck […]
Once-defiant Ambassador Bridge protesters removing blockade
As the sun rose Saturday, once-defiant protesters who since Monday have blocked the Windsor-Detroit Ambassador Bridge began taking down their main camp with most showing signs they would be leaving peacefully. All the big rigs were gone by 10 a.m. but some people refused to leave. A court has granted an injunction to have them […]
London hospital resumes surgeries after clean-equipment concerns
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Police officer cleared in violent arrest of man near Central Library
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Backyard fire pit may be linked to $250K house fire that killed three pets: London firefighters
A backyard fire pit may be linked to a middle-of-the-night house fire that killed three pets and caused an estimated $250,000 in damage to a southwest London home, firefighters say. “The cause or the origin of the fire seems to be in the area of a fire pit that was on the deck underneath the […]