Jury selection set to start in fatal Girl Guides collision trial

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday morning in the criminal negligence trial of a woman charged in a crash that killed a young girl and injured other members of her Girl Guides troupe.   Petronella McNorgan is expected to plead not guilty to criminal negligence causing death and several counts of criminal negligence causing […]

Divers recover body of missing girl from river Sunday

OPP divers recovered the body of a missing 16-year-old girl from the Sydenham River Sunday afternoon. Owen Sound police confirmed it was Meredith Wiebe, who was reported missing by her family about 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The death is not suspicious. Two divers with the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery unit and two more searchers in […]

Man found guilty of criminal negligence causing death in Sauble fire

A judge in Owen Sound found Taran Hibma guilty of criminal negligence causing death Thursday involving a tree house fire at Sauble Beach about 3 ½ years ago. Superior Court Justice Roger Chown called the circumstances “tragic.” Genesis Young, 17, died of smoke inhalation in the tree house, where she and her boyfriend Jonas Renaud […]

‘Sleepy’ lakeside village rattled by man’s shooting death

ERIE BEACH – Chatham-Kent police investigating the death of a man found shot in a home in this quiet Lake Erie community say there’s no wider threat to public safety. Officers responded to a report of a person requiring emergency services at about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, police said. “It was reported the individual had sustained […]

A way with words: Political leaders pay tribute to Brian Mulroney

Canadians of all political stripes remembered Brian Mulroney as a “giant” and a natural leader Thursday as the country absorbed the news of the former prime minister’s death at the age of 84. Mulroney died peacefully while surrounded by his family, his daughter Caroline said on social media. Her spokesperson later said he had been […]

Man sentenced for manslaughter in 2021 city hotel death

The fourth and final person convicted in relation to the death of a 22-year-old man in an Owen Sound hotel almost three years ago has been sentenced. Robert Jackson has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the stabbing death of Kody Hunter and was sentenced by Superior Court Justice John Sproat to 15 years in jail. […]

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