Team Auger Hollingsworth raised funds for the Canadian Paraplegic Association—Ontario at the 2008 Wheelchair Relay Challenge.  The event, held on a beautiful September 20th morning at Mooney’s Bay raised more than $47,000.  The CPA-O provides peer support and other services to people…

A 38-year-old Ottawa woman has been charged by the Ottawa Police Service with several fraud related offences connected to a fraudulent investment scheme.

The Ottawa Police Service Organized Fraud unit began an investigation in October 2008 in relation to numerous…

Starting this fall it will be illegal to use hand-held cellphones and other electronic devices like BlackBerrys and global positioning systems while behind the wheel.

The Legislature unanimously passed the “distracted driving” law on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2009. However it…

The Apology Act was introduced in the provincial legislature on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009. The purpose of the act is to encourage more people to offer sincere regrets for their mistakes.

It was said the law must be changed  to…

A 63-year-old Surrey man has been sentenced to a 10-year driving ban and six weeks of house arrest for driving drunk and colliding with a transit police vehicle.

The man has a history of similar offences which date back to…

A 30-year-old former Edmonton police officer was convicted Tuesday, April 14th, 2009, of dangerous driving causing bodily harm after driving through a red light and colliding with a pickup truck, injuring four people.

The fiery crash resulted in one young…

A 33-year-old Edmonton woman has been charged after allegedly driving drunk with her 10-year-old daughter travelling in the passenger seat.

Another driver notified police after seeing the woman’s pick-up truck driving erratically on Saturday, April 11th, 2009.

Police pulled her…

An Ontario judge has ordered a serial traffic offender, who was caught driving despite a lifetime ban, to forfeit his vehicle.

The judge also sentenced the man to 30 months in a federal penitentiary.

The driver pleaded guilty to a…

A criminal defence lawyer’s failure to review her client’s video interview with police and recorded statements of witnesses led to a mistrial in a Halifax sexual assault case last week.

The man on trial was charged with sexual assault causing…

OPP officers were sent to investigate a sunken bulldozer Saturday, April 11th, 2009, only to find its operator drunk, riding an ATV north of Port Burwell.

Police say a full-sized bulldozer had been driven into Big Otter Creek and was…