Last Updated: April 11, 2011 10:52pm
Catholic teachers facing layoffs
For the first time since 1997, London’s Catholic school board is set to lay off teachers, an official said Monday.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 9:34pm
Apartment proposal draws fire
More than 100 people packed City Hall Monday to protest a three-storey apartment building’s construction, a fight underscoring the complications of infill development.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 9:01pm
Thames cleanup volunteers urged to be alert
Organizers of the annual Thames River cleanup this Saturday are warning volunteers to be especially wary of fast and cold water because of the late spring run-off.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 8:52pm
‘I just want the world to know it’s not us’
Legendary mixed martial arts coach Shawn Tompkins was horrified when London police walked into the Adrenaline Training Centre on Dundas St., handcuffed fighter Kasheem Peterson and led him away.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 8:36pm
Land value vs. family value
— A steep rise in the value of farmland has caused a dilemma for Southwestern Ontario farmers looking forward to retirement.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 8:01pm
Asian carp real threat, anglers say
A group of local anglers who have dedicated decades to stocking the Great Lakes with sport fish are alarmed by the threat of destructive Asian carp infesting local waters.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 7:56pm
Hospital reports 57 vials of narcotic went missing
What happened at London’s University Hospital last fall to dozens of vials of a narcotic 100 times more powerful than morphine remains a mystery.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 7:48pm
Londoner, 26, pleads guilty to impaired driving charge
Life took a horrible turn two years ago for an impaired driver, a woman and an elderly man at a London intersection.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 7:44pm
Students bust best dance moves
At the Thames Valley District school board headquarters this week, the gym is packed with kids gyrating, grooving, skipping and busting a move to music from the 1960s to the present.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 7:35pm
Ambulances on hold outside London ERs
Ambulances and their patients waited outside London emergency rooms for more than 685 hours in March — that’s an average of one working paramedic crew unavailable for emergencies for every hour of every day that month.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 7:13pm
Fire alarms disabled
An April 7 fire that caused $175,000 in damage to a semi-detached home on Inverary Rd. has now attracted charges of failing to have working smoke alarms.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 7:06pm
Cancer kills more often here
Residents in the London region aren’t only waiting longer for cancer surgery and treatment — they’re also dying more often from cancer.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 6:46pm
Baby Joseph remains in St. Louis hospital
Baby Joseph is still in the St. Louis hospital where he received a tracheotomy that London doctors had refused to perform.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 5:40pm
Shelter head was small but mighty
Leaurie Noordermeer’s top priorities in life were family and faith.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 8:31pm
Growers looking forward to bountiful season
After a long dreary winter, no one is as anxious for spring as Ontario's grain farmers.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 7:17pm
Dance festival has a lot to offer students
VIDEO: The Thames Valley District School Board's annual dance festival gives students a chance to express themselves.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 8:48pm
‘We’re not that kind of people’
Mixed-martial arts fighter Kasheem “The Dream” Peterson was training at the Adrenaline Training Centre in London when police walked in and asked to see him.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 6:58pm
Ex-health minister takes aim at LHIN
No one got the memo in Queen’s Park that for next month’s election it will be Parliament that’s up for grabs.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 12:09pm
Internet account hijacked
Oxford OPP are warning Internet users of a phishing scam after a 63-year-old Ingersoll man got a message claiming to be from hotmail asking for the password to his account.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 6:24pm
‘Suspicious’ remains discovered in Southwold Township
OPP detectives are treating the discovery of human remains in Southwold Township as "suspicious."
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 10:39am
Driver racks up charges
Perhaps it's a lesson in how not to drive.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 10:34am
Teen found unconscious
Perth OPP charged several teens with underage drinking in St. Marys over the weekend and even had to help paramedics with a 15-year-old girl who had been drinking vodka from a water bottle until she passed out.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 8:56am
Man stabbed in throat
A man attempting to break up a fight thought he had been punched in the throat early Sunday.
Last Updated: April 11, 2011 8:40am
Tories vulnerable in London West: prof
Hundreds of jobs at stake. A teen kicked out of a rally. Refusal to attend a health-care debate.
Last Updated: April 10, 2011 10:34pm
Tornado watch issued
Environment Canada issued a tornado watch for parts of Southwestern Ontario Sunday night.