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Offender status revoked

Ontario’s highest court has shelved a long-term offender designation placed on a Woodstock man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend in the chest and back and held police at bay for 14 hours.

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Stolen U-Haul, police chase leads to jail

U-Haul trucks are available to go anywhere, anytime — but not when they’re stolen.

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Volunteer fights blaze at mom’s

When the call came in, volunteer firefighter Colin Darling couldn’t let personal feelings get in the way.

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Effective Monday, high school instructors are in a legal strike position

Teachers at Thames Valley District school board high schools begin job action Monday. Reporter Kate Dubinski reports on what students and parents can expect.

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Strike at Wescast comes to an end

After three weeks on the picket line, striking Canadian Auto Workers reached a deal with auto parts maker Wescast Industries in Strathroy.

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Trouble looms in London's final frontier

A lot of land, quick decisions made over planners’ objections and a vote that danced around the rules.

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CITY HALL: With $1B at stake, who will lead?

Think the last four weeks have been politically painful at city hall?

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Big, bigger, freakin' huge

The first version of a plan in 2010 to develop 1,000 hectares of land in London’s southwest — called SWAP (Southwest Area Plan) — was supposed to change everything.

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London man is ordained, bishop says

A bishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church has waded into the debate about whether a Londoner with a criminal past is a priest.

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Ingersoll man arrested in St. Thomas park charged with child luring

A 53-year-old Ingersoll man is charged with child luring and marijuana possession following a seven-month investigation by the St. Thomas police.

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Alleged drunk driver was speeding and smoking with son in car, say police

A 46-year-old Chatham woman faces an impaired charge for allegedly speeding near an elementary school with her son in the vehicle on Friday afternoon.

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Group of London gamers gives gift of entertainment to Merrymount youngsters

Dozens of shiny new board games and electronics greeted a group of ecstatic children at London’s Merrymount family support and crisis centre on Saturday.

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Month-long Shine the Light campaign turns London Lightning crowd purple

How does a basketball game start a conversation about woman abuse?

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One person suffers life-threatening injuries in LTC bus crash

Two people were injured, one of them seriously, after a two-vehicle crash involving an LTC bus Sunday morning.

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Leo Larizza follows his mother’s loving example and grants wishes to poor, or...

A girl wanted a pony.

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Mayor wants councillor to fill board vacancy

Mayor Joe Fontana is calling for a greater city council presence on the board of the Middlesex-­London Health Unit in light of criticism over the unit’s ballooning budget and bureaucracy.

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Candidate thinks agreements are possible with teacher, public sector, opposition

Kathleen Wynne, MPP for Don Valley West, was in London drumming up support for her run for the leadership of the provincial Liberals.

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St. Thomas teen faces attempted murder charge after boy’s neck slashed

A child welfare agency is investigating after a knife attack on a nine-year-old boy in St. Thomas.

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Warm weather gives city a breather on several ongoing projects

Pity London’s poor drivers.

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Tentative agreement comes as strike action was set to begin

Parents and teachers bracing for job action by London-area public high school teachers can breath a sigh of relief.

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