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Sect children returned to parents with conditions (With video)
CHATHAM -A bruise on a toddler’s cheek triggered a court hearing Tuesday that resulted in the little girl and her brother being returned to their parents after five days in foster care. Chatham-Kent...
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Construction supervisor cleared in fatal explosion
The lives of Ronald Nelson’s family changed in the flick of a switch. The 75-year-old widower had been out of his house on Esdras Place all afternoon March 24, 2011. The sewers on his street were being...
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Child-protection case challenged by Lev Tahor (with video)
CHATHAM Does a judge in Ontario have the legal authority to hear a child-protection case begun in Quebec? Ontario court Justice Stephen Fuerth will begin grappling with the issue next month when a case...
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Court reporter calls it a career after 49 years
After 49 years of recording testimony about murderers, speeders, drug dealers and child abusers, Richard Lafreniere is calling it a career. Lafreniere , who turns 69 in January, is retiring from court...
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Three locals face ‘dangerous offender’ designation, life behind bars
Three local men are starting the new year facing the prospect of a lifetime behind bars. Scott McLaughlin, 45, is a violent offender with more than 60 criminal convictions to his name. His latest...
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Enwin crew returns from restoring power in TO (With Video)
A hero’s welcome. Toronto residents, some of whom had been without power for a week, showered Enwin workers with gifts, cheers and hugs for forgoing Christmas with their own families to help the city...
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Road reopens after early-morning crash downs power lines
County Road 46 between Walker Road and Eighth Concession has reopened after a single-vehicle crash that downed power lines early this morning. A vehicle struck a utility pole near the Husky restaurant....
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First local baby of 2014 as precious as ‘hidden gold’ (with video)
His name means hidden gold, but for his parents and their families, he represents pure joy. Aurin Chang entered the world at 2:40 a.m. on New Year’s Day, becoming the first baby born in Windsor and...
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Census for the birds (with video)
While the rest of Windsor and Essex County was taking shelter from a wintry start to the new year Wednesday, a large flock of snow buntings was flitting though a field in the city’s far west end. The...
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Pedophile priest loses teaching licence
More than six decades after William Hodgson Marshall began sexually abusing male students, the former priest has lost his licence to teach. The Ontario College of Teachers announced in December it has...
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Windsor native advises U.S. on nuclear safety
A man who unnerved the family cleaning lady as a boy by storing a jar of moose eyes in his closet now advises the U.S. government on the safety of its nuclear facilities. Windsor native Ken Mossman has...
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Liar sentenced to jail for perjury
A Windsor man who lied in court to get a friend out of jail was sentenced Monday to four months behind bars for perjury. Laurent Harvey Brown, 40, was caught in his lies by coincidence. On June 24,...
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Saint-Ambroise school closed
Saint-Ambroise Catholic school in St. Joachim will remain closed Thursday while crews clean up from a flood caused by a burst water pipe. The school was closed today after the flooding was discovered...
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Yard sale row lands man in jail
A Windsor man who got violent at a yard sale was sentenced Wednesday to a year on probation. Wesley James Paul, 33, a repeat offender who once killed a man, had already served 70 days in jail before he...
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Distinguished Windsor native Ken Mossman dies in Washington, D.C.
A Windsor native recently appointed by Barack Obama as an adviser on the safety of U.S. nuclear defence facilities died suddenly Wednesday. Ken Mossman was 67. He collapsed on the subway in Washington,...
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Retired teacher disciplined for affair with student decades ago
A retired teacher has been stripped of his licence for having an affair with a student decades ago. Peter Scorrar, who last taught at Leamington District High School, is unrepentant about the sexual...
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‘We’re not talking about Mr. and Mrs. Jones’s children here’: Lev Tahor...
CHATHAM An ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that recently moved to Chatham will learn next month whether 14 of its children will be sent back to Quebec and placed in foster care. Ontario court Justice...
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Convicted cop Kent Rice appeals court decision
A Windsor police officer convicted of assault for kicking a man in a stairwell has launched an appeal. Const. Kent Patrick Rice was sentenced in September to one year of probation. He must perform 60...
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