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Lawsuits against Amherstburg could mean higher property taxes
Taxes in Amherstburg could skyrocket if the town loses the more than $13 million in lawsuits it’s facing, the town’s chief administrative officer has warned new councilors. John Miceli this month...
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Windsor lawyer charged with shoplifting
A criminal lawyer has been charged with theft after an alleged shoplifting incident at a local drug store. Paul Esco, 61, was arrested Saturday at the Shoppers Drug Mart at 2109 Ottawa St. Windsor...
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Rabbi’s son first local baby of 2015
Windsor and Essex County’s first baby of 2015 does not yet have a name, but his daddy’s is well-known in the area. Rabbi Sholom Galperin and his wife, Rivka, welcomed their fifth child at 12:07 a.m....
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New Year’s Eve fire causes $500,000 damage to downtown Kingsville shop
Residual burning embers in a charcoal barbecue are responsible for more than $500,000 in damage to a store in downtown Kingsville New Year’s Eve. An OPP officer on routine patrol smelled smoke...
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Obituary: Local sports organizer Louis Deschamps dies at age 82
If you’ve ever played baseball in Riverside or stay active in your golden years through organized sports, you likely have Louis Deschamps to thank. The lifelong athlete and sports organizer was a...
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Michael Allard’s trial begins in Superior Court
A violent criminal wanted for beating a man so badly he needed emergency brain surgery was arrested sitting in a recliner smoking a cigarette, his Superior Court trial heard Monday. There had been a...
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Claudio Martini’s licence to practise law suspended again
A Windsor lawyer accused of misappropriating up to $15 million from clients has once again lost his licence while his case is before a disciplinary panel. Claudio Martini, 50, was to have a hearing...
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Windsor Jewish Community Centre hires Jay Katz as new executive director
Jay Katz is coming home. After seven years away from the city where he grew up, Katz will return to Windsor next month to become the Windsor Jewish Community Centre’s new executive director. “I think...
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Courthouse massages raise awareness of stress faced by self-represented...
Down the hall from the row of courtrooms where parents fight for custody of their children appeared an unusual oasis of calm Friday. Students from the Canadian College of Health Science and Technology...
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Michael Allard sentenced to nine more months in prison
With a single punch, Michael Wilfred Allard delivered catastrophic effect. Allard, a Windsor man with a long history of violent crime, put a man in a coma June 5, 2013 after robbing him of a laptop and...
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Kingsville’s Kevin Franklin named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in gaming
Kingsville’s Kevin Franklin is flying high, literally and figuratively. Monday he was taking a flight lesson in the skies above his new hometown of Seattle, Wash. A week earlier, the design director...
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Free massages at Windsor courthouse nixed
The Ministry of the Attorney General has pulled the plug on an unconventional program offered at a Windsor courthouse this month. For three Fridays in January, students from the Canadian College of...
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23-year-old drug kingpin Tony Amante headed to the pen
Anthony Amante says he comes by his criminal ways honestly. His late father, Carmen, was a drug kingpin who went to prison for trafficking in cocaine. Tony followed in his dad’s footsteps. Amante, 23,...
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Business as usual at Caesars Windsor despite bankruptcy filing in United States
Despite its parent company filing for bankruptcy protection in the United States Thursday, it will be “business as usual” at Caesars Windsor, the casino insists. “There are no ramifications for us,”...
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Charges stayed in Lauzon Road gun raid
More than four dozen charges were stayed this week against two people arrested during a raid at a Lauzon Road home in 2012. Tina Vachon, 31, and Michael Loiselle, 37, had just begun what was to be a...
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Brampton trucker sentenced to 20 months in jail for trying to smuggle doda...
When a Brampton trucker loaded box after box of dried poppy heads into the back of his big rig, little did he know he would have the dubious honour of blazing a trail through Windsor’s court system....
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Mischief trial begins for embattled doctor Nick Rathe
A physician stripped of his medical licence was back before the courts Monday, this time claiming he is the victim of a smear campaign by a former patient and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of...
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Former doctor Nick Rathe accuses police of bias at his public mischief trial
Former medical doctor Charles Nicholas Rathe accused an OPP officer of bias Tuesday, claiming the cop did not do a thorough investigation into his 2007 fraud complaint. “What was all the evidence you...
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U.S. trucker takes wrong turn at Ambassador Bridge, lands in jail
DETROIT An American trucker who took a wrong turn onto the Ambassador Bridge ended up behind bars for possession of firearms. The 58-year-old Florida man unwittingly ended up on the Canadian side of...
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Former patient tells of affair with Dr. Nick Rathe
Dr. Nick Rathe got a patient hooked on Oxycontin then began to sleep with her, giving her money for daycare and a car, the woman testified Thursday. Michelle Timothy told Rathe’s public mischief trial...
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