The residents who jammed themselves into the Durham Community Centre hall Tuesday night for a rally to save the Durham hospital hope their actions are more of a battle cry than a death rattle. Several hundred residents joined a standing-room-only crowd and listened as speakers organized by the upstart Save the Durham Hospital committee railed […]
It’s been almost 15 years since Brantford-raised Jeff Munro was beaten to death in the Don Jail during an argument over a bag of potato chips. An inquest into his death has finally been announced. Munro, a talented and world-travelling former dancer, died Nov. 7, 2009, at 31 years old. “It was initially announced in […]
Student protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have broken out at many university and college campuses in the United States
South Bruce Mayor Mark Goetz said the death of his friend in a workplace mishap 20 years ago still eats at him. Goetz was one of several local political and labour leaders and others who spoke at a small gathering to mark Canada’s National Day of Mourning in Chesley Sunday. His friend Bob King had been […]
Grey Bruce OPP is investigating the death of an 81-year-old Meaford resident who was unresponsive when pulled from Meaford Saturday morning. Police were called to the harbour at 11:08 a.m. for a possible drowning. Emergency responders pulled the person out of the water and the individual was pronounced dead. Police did not release the deceased […]
The widow of the man who died while working at Amazon’s London-area mega-plant says she expects to have to wait another half-year to find out the exact cause of his death.
Friends, ex-players and loved ones are mourning the death of longtime London volleyball coach Vaughan Peckham, who is being remembered for his on-court expertise and his role in growing the sport locally. He was 77.
After her daughter, Zeynah, died, Maryam De Groef came across a drawing the nine-year-old girl had made, showing a rainbow and a smiling heart.
CHATHAM – Emotions ran high in a Chatham courtroom as the mother of a teenager killed in a violent encounter lashed out at the judge during a youth’s sentencing hearing. The male youth was 17 when the teen was stabbed to death in a drug deal gone bad involving four teens on Oct. 21, 2022 […]
The vicious wind storm that swept through Lucknow and many other areas of the province on April 12 was the death knoll for three blue spruce trees located at River Valley Apartments on Willoughby Street. One of these historic trees was planted on the property by the Lucknow Horticultural Society on July 1, 1992 to […]
Mary Caruana cried as she told a packed courtroom she was “deeply sorry.” Mercedes Summers apologized several times and said “I made the biggest mistake of my life.” And Colton Thomas, his defence lawyer ailing and in the hospital, was allowed to be released on bail until his sentencing date. It was all too difficult […]
Facing prison for what the Crown called “vigilante justice,” Allana Lebars said she had serious regrets about what happened to musician Daniel Fawcett.
