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The sister of Ottawa’s latest murder victim feared for Leeanne Lawson’s life on Ottawa’s Lowertown streets. “The area that she was living in, I’ve been there,” Melissa Sauder told the Sun, adding she’s visited Lowertown twice in the last three years. “It was scary. I came in there with my fairly nice car,” she said. […]
MoreBy KELLY ROCHE and JUSTIN SADLER, Ottawa Sun Ottawa’s second homicide victim of 2011 is being remembered as a dedicated mom to her three kids and who loved volunteering at the local swimming pool. “Tina is a terrific lady. She put her heart into her kids’ activities,” said Wayne Toner, president of the Sudbury Laurentian […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/17557041.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/pf-17555811.html Wednesdays were hell. From witnessing a stabbing to crack addicts smoking up on their front steps, residents living near Cumberland St. and Daly Ave. saw it all when a homeless drop-in centre used to operate at St. Paul’s-Eastern United church. “It was on Wednesdays, once a week, for five or six years,” […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/26/17419326.html#/news/ottawa/2011/02/26/pf-17419326.html Three people are in custody after two men were shot and stabbed during an early morning brawl in Vanier Saturday — part of a growing trend of gun violence in the city. “Definitely, there’s a lot more people turning to firearms,” said Det. Chris O’Brien of the guns and gangs unit. Cops […]
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