4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (190+ words) A heavily intoxicated driver paid the price for turning down a ride from police last summer. Robert Lesage asked an Ontario Provincial Police officer to leave Highway 17 in Garden River First Nation on Aug. 4, 2025. His speech was slurred. Alcohol could…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (121+ words) No injuries reported in Monday incident One person has been charged with robbery and weapon offences after police received a report Monday of an altercation at a business in the 200 block of Lake Street. Police say the accused, brandishing a…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (207+ words) Several narcotics were found when police did a Highway Traffic Act stop in Batchewana First Nation late last year. Richard Atherton wasn’t supposed to be driving, said federal prosecutor Ben Pritchard last Friday. Batchewana First Nation Police seized two grams…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (98+ words) Clinking glass gave away a man’s efforts to spirit away three bottles of booze from the LCBO at Churchill Plaza last fall. Staff heard the bottles knocking together as Raven Pine left the business without paying for the alcohol on…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (246+ words) The man who savagely stabbed a woman more than 100 times with a screwdriver in her John Street apartment nearly three years ago was sentenced Tuesday to life imprisonment for the fatal random attack. Taylor Marshall, 22, was slain by Steven Jones…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (111+ words) Sault woman's no-shows land her in jail Sault Star A woman landed in jail for not seeing her probation officer or going to John Howard Society. Megan Laird, 31, pleaded guilty to three offences last Friday, including failing to attend court…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (59+ words) A person suffered serious injuries when repeatedly punched by someone known to them, police say. The assault happened at a residence in the 300 block of Cathcart Street on June 1. The victim was taken to hospital. A suspect was arrested Aug....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (80+ words) Sault Star A victim suffered serious injuries in an assault on St. George’s Avenue West on Thursday evening. Sault Ste. Marie Police Service went to the street’s 0 to 100 block at about 9:30 p.m., said spokesperson Lincoln Louttit in an email…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) A man will do more jail time for repeatedly stealing booze from LCBO outlets, assaulting a woman and taking cash from a relative’s bank account. Shawn Leblanc pleaded guilty Tuesday to 16 offences, including eight counts theft under $5,000, assaulting and threatening…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (493+ words) Putting a man who rammed his truck – twice – into an east-end veterinarian clinic during office hours more than two years ago would undermine the effort he made to better himself, his lawyer argued Tuesday. Twelve months of house arrest, said…...