Halton Regional Police say DNA evidence found in a vehicle stolen from Brampton has led to an arrest in Oakville. In late February, officers were called out twice to a residence on Sheddon Avenue after multiple reports of abandoned vehicles in the area. As per police procedure, investigators from the Forensic Identification Bureau conducted an […]
On Monday morning a man appeared to be suffering a heart attack while driving on Harvey Avenue near Spall Road. Another motorist saw what happened, pulled the man from his car and started CPR. “It’s a great job on his part,” Kelowna Fire Captain Doug Shaw said of the man who began first aid. The […]
In an unusual call to action, Chatham-Kent Police have taken to social media in hopes of reuniting a mysterious wedding album with its rightful owners. “A few weeks ago officers from our street crimes unit recovered an old wedding album during a search warrant,” Const. Renee Cowell told 980 CFPL. “We’ve tried numerous different investigative […]
A Chinese woman charged with bluffing her way into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida resort last month was denied bail on Monday by a federal judge who said he believed she was “up to something nefarious.” Yujing Zhang, who was carrying four cell phones and a laptop computer when arrested, pleaded not guilty at her […]
During a promising lull in the Sri Lankan civil war, Roy Samathanam left Toronto and returned to the island country, which he had fled in 1990. It was a big mistake. He was handcuffed and blindfolded by counter-terrorism police, who detained and tortured him for almost three years, accusing him of involvement with the Tamil […]
Elected officials at Montreal’s city hall are speaking with one voice against Quebec’s proposed secularism bill. Mayor Valérie Plante and opposition leader Lionel Perez presented a bipartisan declaration today saying Montreal practices open secularism and its bylaws are neutral, regardless of the religious convictions of those who make them. Plante told a news conference the […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] A small plane carrying three people had made six attempts to land in the thick fog around New York City on Sunday night and was heading for a seventh before it ran out of fuel above Long Island. The […]
A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said. The man, Brandon Cory Lecroy, 26, of Greenwood, was arrested […]
Northumberland OPP came to the aid of a racer who was injured during the annual Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny River Race in Port Hope on Saturday. Police were conducting patrols with ATVs and vessels during the 39th annual race down the Ganaraska River in the Municipality of Port Hope when they were informed […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Boeing faces a wave of flight cancellations by US airlines and pressure from President Donald Trump to rebrand its top-selling 737 Max aircraft, a month after the plane was grounded worldwide in the wake of deadly crashes. American and Southwest Airlines say the grounding will disrupt scheduled flights through the summer, […]