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SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/17/hit-and-run-leaves-man-critically-hurt A Stratford family is devastated after a 22-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run crash on Bronson Ave. early Wednesday. Emergency crews got the call at 3:18 a.m. for a young man found unconscious and bleeding near Somerset Ave. W., on the outskirts of Chinatown. Dan Miller, 22 — the youngest of […]
MoreGatineau police detectives have 15 new leads about three attempted abductions that happened last month but are still trying to identify one of the victims. Police released her first name and description: “Caroline” stands between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9 inches, has long, curly brown hair and was toting a camouflage print purse. “We’re still looking for […]
MoreSome Ottawa cops say they’re letting drunks roam the streets because stricter measures in the central cellblock intended to protect intoxicated people are actually making things worse. “Why bother? You’re going to be stuck with them,” one officer who didn’t want to be named told the Sun. “Just don’t pick them up in the first […]
MoreOttawa police have added a staff sergeant to oversee operations at the central cellblock — one of many changes after the infamous Stacy Bonds incident. The move was implemented five months ago, according to the final report of the cellblock operations review released Friday. Chief Vern White said improving service is the goal of these […]
MoreDrug-addicted thieves are breaking into homes and cars making off with valuable items — and we’re helping them gain easy access, say Ottawa police. “People need to close their garages, even if they’re going to be in the backyard hanging out or gardening,” said Sgt. Mike Noonan. “Just close the door when you’re not in […]
MoreArson is suspected in last Friday’s massive Kanata townhouse development fire. “It certainly points in that direction,” said Sgt. Dave Christie from the Ottawa Police Arson Section. The blaze — which caused $2.5 million in damage — quickly tore through the unoccupied townhomes under construction on Remnor Ave. around 10 p.m. Friday. No one was […]
MoreA Lowertown resident wasn’t surprised to hear gunshots ringing out in her neighbourhood Sunday night. “There was a good six or seven (shots) the first time we heard them,” said resident Melyssa Rondhuis. Ottawa police received several calls around 11 p.m. from Beausoleil Dr. and York St., just east of King Edward Ave. Rondhuis said […]
MoreOttawa Police have charged a 14-year-old boy with several serious offences related to two incidents at a west-end park and that has many residents shocked but breathing much easier. “I feel safer,” said Thuy Cellah, a mother of three kids who was at Bellevue Manor Park on Caldwell Avenue Saturday while her children played. One […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/04/05/17882876.html Red rose petals littered the parking lot at Kelly Funeral Home in Orleans Tuesday morning after the memorial service for homicide victim Jessica Riopelle. Roughly 110 people packed the chapel — and dozens lined up out the door —to remember the 23-year-old who was killed March 26 at a south Ottawa motel. […]
MoreWhile most university students wrap up the semester, the daughter of murder victim Tinde “Tina” Nemet cares for her younger siblings. Leonora Nemet, 20, is taking a break from nursing school at Laurentian University to look after her younger siblings — Teodora, 18 and Thomas, 16 — in Ottawa following their mother’s horrific killing. “She […]
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