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A man in his mid-30s remains in hospital after he was shot in a taxi while leaving an east end strip club early Sunday. He was hit “square in the back,” said Sgt. Seth Curtis from the guns and gangs unit, commenting on the 24th shooting this year. Another man and the driver — who […]
MoreBY DANIELLE BELL & KELLY ROCHE Police are mourning the loss of one of their own, after an Ottawa officer was killed in a head-on crash while on his way to work Sunday. Ottawa police Const. Mike Robillard, 32, never made it to start his shift. He leaves behind his wife and one child. Robillard […]
MoreAzaan Hamid had just gotten dressed for gym class at D. Roy Kennedy P.S. when the fire alarm went off around 10:35 Thursday morning. “I thought it was a drill,” said Hamid, 10, adding “everyone was getting out of the building very calmly.” They had reason to panic – an armed man had walked into […]
MoreA 32-year-old man is in hospital in serious condition following a highrise blaze in the south end Sunday. It was one of four fires that kept crews hopping from Saturday evening through Sunday. Firefighters rushed to 2870 Cedarwood Dr., in the south end, at 5:21 a.m. after a cop in the area saw the fire […]
MoreA 22-year-old Ottawa man was killed in a motorcycle crash in the rural west end early Sunday. “For an unknown reason, he lost control, struck a guardrail and was pronounced dead at the scene,” said acting Insp. John McGetrick. The crash happened around 1:10 a.m. on Old Richmond Rd. near Cambrian in a stretch bordered […]
MoreSteve Dery was a “good guy and a damn good cop.” But he’ll never get to serve and protect in his hometown. He was killed in the line of duty after a gunman opened fire on Dery, 27, of Orléans, and his partner while they were responding to a domestic violence call at a home […]
MoreOPP have identified the two people killed in a car crash in North Glengarry Twp. early Sunday morning. Colin Joseph Geddis, 21, and Jasmine Morris, 26, both of Alexandria, were pronounced dead at the scene after their car crashed into a ditch on McCormick Road and struck a tree. The driver of the vehicle, Kevin […]
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