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Medical marijuana plant proposed for Anchor Drive
An industrial building on Anchor Drive could become the home of a medical marijuana grow operation. City planners learned just before a meeting Monday afternoon that Medical Marihuana Patient Relief...
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Pawnshop recommended for Wyandotte Street East
The city’s standing committee on planning and economic development is recommending approval of a new pawnshop on Wyandotte Street East. The Cash Boutique, a payday lender, is proposing adding a...
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Tentative contract reached at Diageo
A tentative agreement has been struck at Amherstburg’s Diageo plant after a 36-hour marathon of bargaining. Unifor Local 2098 president D.J. Lacey said the two sides reached a deal after 8 p.m....
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Couples hit Rock Bottom On Valentine’s Day
If you’ve always thought you can’t find true love in a bar, you’ve never met Amy and Stephen Szewczuk. The couple met at Rock Bottom Bar and Grill in 2000. Stephen, a salesman, was an occasional patron...
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ERCA passes $7.2M budget
The Essex Region Conservation Authority passed a budget this week that calls for nearly $7.2 million spending, a modest increase over last year. Member municipalities will contribute nearly $2.9...
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Talks to save Heinz plant continue
Lower wages, cheaper prices to farmers, provincial subsidies and a break on local utility costs are all on the table in talks to keep Leamington’s Heinz plant operating, says the town’s mayor....
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Soup to fund good ideas
Canada has Dragon’s Den. Windsor has soup. Creative local projects can get financing through a fundraising dinner being held at the Walkerville Brewery March 4. Proponents pitch their ideas to diners...
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69 cocaine bricks hidden in crates of oranges, trial hears
A Toronto-area trucker lost his bid Tuesday to have 69 kilograms of cocaine and other evidence of alleged drug smuggling excluded as evidence at his trial. Baldev Singh, 45, argued his constitutional...
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Chop shop supplier sentenced to 10 months
A Windsor man who supplied stolen cars to a Lakeshore chop shop was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months in jail. Giorgio Loiacono, 42, received the heftiest sentence of all the players charged in the...
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Trucker pleads ignorance about cocaine found in cargo
A Toronto-area trucker testified Thursday that he may be a garbage picker, but he is not a drug smuggler. Baldev Singh, 44, crossed the Ambassador Bridge into Canada March 19, 2009, with 69 kilograms...
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Updated: Skeates found guilty in connection with fatal snowmobile crash (with...
Trevor Skeates had consumed so much beer on Jan. 9, 2010, he was well over the legal limit to drive. But that was not the definite cause of the snowmobile crash that killed his passenger and friend,...
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I’m not a man, Windsor woman tries to tell OHIP (with video)
Dianne Whitson is a 60-year-old woman. According to the Ministry of Health, she is a man with a penchant for having pap smears, getting mammograms and giving birth. Whitson learned this week that the...
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OHIP error fixed: Windsor woman is a man no more
According to the government of Ontario, Dianne Whitson is a man no more. The Forest Glade woman was caught in a bureaucratic nightmare. The OHIP card she had had for decades listed her as a man despite...
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Bar patrons get house arrest for leaving children unattended in parking lot
A Windsor woman and her 64-year-old mom were sentenced Monday to house arrest and probation for going to an Amherstburg bar and leaving a carload of young kids unattended in the parking lot. Jennifer...
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Importing pot nets sentence of house arrest
Life had always come easy for Isaiah Ivan Wiltshire. He was a gifted student and star athlete. He had a loving family supporting his goal of getting a law degree and becoming a sports agent in the...
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Fraudster’s jail sentence will be followed by house arrest
When it comes to fraud, Brian Vujovic is versatile. The Tecumseh resident forges documents and passes bad cheques. He sells non-existent goods. He convinces people to invest in phony ventures. Vujovic,...
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Sex offender Baggio defends himself in civil case
Five and a half years after being convicted of sexually assaulting two students, Mark Christopher Baggio was back in court Thursday, this time pleading poverty. Baggio, a former Catholic high school...
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Inmate gets enhanced credit for time served at Windsor Jail
Conditions at the Windsor Jail are so awful, an inmate deserves enhanced credit for the time he spent there, a Superior Court judge has ruled. Justice Thomas Carey Friday gave a Toronto man 500 days’...
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University of Windsor countersues in $40M suit
The University of Windsor is embroiled in a $40-million lawsuit after a heralded partnership into solar energy research went sour. SunSource Grids Inc. says it had an agreement with the university to...
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