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Demonstrators heckle Kathleen Wynne during her Sarnia stop Friday

Kathleen Wynne toured Sarnia for the first time as premier Friday, pledging to delve deeper into the big issues impacting local residents and work on strengthening the local economy.

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Stranger danger parked in online ride searches

Your parents told you at a young age not to hitchhike and to never — ever — get into a car with a stranger.

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Free Press probe finds fewer than 20% of Ontario nursing homes get promised...

Frightened by recent abuse exposed at a Peterborough nursing home, you want to know who's protecting your loved ones in homes across Ontario.

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Justin Primmer was arrested after a woman reportedly fell from a...

A man who stabbed a bootlegger to death in 2003 has been charged after a woman was beaten before reportedly falling from the balcony of a London apartment building.

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Cathy Frank told by regulators this week she can work again in husband’s clinic

Ontario regulators won’t say why they’ve allowed a London-area doctor to resume her practice, even though she faces a mountain of lawsuits.

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Wetsuit-clad men caught on golf course, OPP reports

Maybe they were just lost. Middlesex OPP had an unusual traffic stop Wednesday night when officers stopped two men riding a Gator tractor near Dorchester on the Thames Golf Course — and they were both...

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About 40 tenants forced to flee blaze

Ontario’s Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of an early-morning blaze at a Tillsonburg apartment building.

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Parent furor over her husband’s child-porn past costs highly-regarded...

Thames Valley District school board has scrapped its plan to transfer a principal and her controversial personal life to a new school — instead reassigning her away from pupils altogether.

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London’s mayor reportedly apologized for ‘lively debate’

By all accounts, Mayor Joe Fontana is making a splash at the annual convention of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in Vancouver that has attracted nearly 2,000 municipal leaders.

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Month-long strike puts patients at Victoria Hospital at risk, family says

Cancer patients are being placed at risk by a strike that this week disabled three of four elevators in a key wing of London’s Victoria Hospital, a patient’s family says.

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London landlord, Shmuel Farhi, pays $10.25M for two hotels

London landlord Shmuel Farhi is snapping up Windsor waterfront — to the tune of more than $10 million.

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Full inspections on facilities in Ontario lagging

Unsure how many years it will take to inspect Ontario nursing homes, officials with the Health Ministry have asked homes to police themselves.

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Newsroom staff recognized for work

The London Free Press has been recognized for its work at the Sun Media Awards 2012.

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New UTRCA facility is London’s first building to qualify for ‘platinum’...

They didn’t just for go for gold, they went for platinum.

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What can the city do to get new grads stay in London?

The brightest of the bright love London’s big-city amenities and the small-town feel. But they’re not sticking around . . .

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Sarnia beauty queen makes top five in national pageant

Michelle McKay had never competed in a pageant before.

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Woodstock police investigate after girl followed to school

Police are investigating after a suspicious person was seen following a young girl as she walked to school on Mill Street near Albert Street in Woodstock on Friday morning.

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Port Burwell gears up for HMCS Ojibwa launch with radio weekend

Kevin Clements was aboard the HMCS Ojibwa in Port Burwell Saturday morning, sitting in a radio room so small he couldn’t stand up straight in it and so narrow he could barely stretch his arms across it.

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London Spray painter draws crowds with quick live show

It doesn't take long for a crowd to form around Chris Seaton when he paints.

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More than 1,000 dogs descend on Plunkett Estate for Bark in the Park

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