Port Hope senior outsmarts “grandchild” scammer
PORT HOPE -- A 71-year-old Port Hope man could not be duped into the so-called grandchild scam. The man got a call from someone purporting to be his grandson on Dec. 31. The man quickly ended the...
View ArticleBank robbed by masked men who fled in a luxury car
A TD Canada Trust bank on Airport Road has been robbed this morning.
View ArticleChatham-Kent man charged for making death threats while on a VIA train in...
COBOURG -- A westbound VIA train bound for Toronto was evacuated and searched after a man was overheard making threats on his cellphone. The train stopped at the Cobourg station on Jan. 5 around 11:50...
View ArticleMultiple charges, including flee police, for Peterborough man
SELWYN — A Peterborough man faces multiple charges after he fled from police early Wednesday morning (Jan. 6) in Selwyn. At about 2 a.m., Peterborough County OPP officers on routine patrol saw a...
View ArticleDamages to soccer dome in Whitby ‘nowhere near’ $1-million estimate
WHITBY -- The actual cost of damages at the soccer dome facility in Whitby following a recent break-in is expected to be much less than the $1-million amount initially reported. Whitby Iroquois Soccer...
View ArticleGrafton attempted murder suspect appears in Cobourg court
NORTHUMBERLAND -- A man accused of attempted murder made an appearance in a Cobourg courtroom on Wednesday and is opting to let the courts decide his fate. Daniel Grant, 61, appeared in court...
View ArticleAjax teacher, 52-year-old Raymond Hubbard, charged with attempting to lure...
AJAX -- A long-time teacher with the Durham District School Board is facing luring charges after police said he attempted to make arrangements over the Internet to meet a 14-year-old female for a...
View ArticleWindsor man charged with threatening MPs, ordered to stay away from Prime...
COBOURG -- A Windsor-area man has been ordered to stay away from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family after an alleged plot to kill members of Parliament was uncovered during a VIA Rail trip,...
View ArticleTeenager arrested for attempted armed robbery in Courtice
CLARINGTON -- A Clarington teenage boy has been arrested in connection to the attempted armed robbery of a Courtice convenience store that occurred last month. On Thursday, Dec. 10, a young male in...
View ArticlePolice hunt four men in violent downtown Hamilton home invasion
A downtown home invasion resulted in two victims being taken to hospital, police say.
View ArticleAjax teacher Raymond Hubbard, 52, charged with luring a child, remains in...
DURHAM -- An Ajax elementary school teacher accused of attempting to lure a teenaged girl for sex remains in custody after being denied bail. Raymond Hubbard, 52, appeared by video link for the...
View ArticleTwo teens arrested as police answer break-in alarm at Courtice Secondary School
COURTICE -- Cops surrounded a school and arrested two break-in suspects early Friday in Courtice. Durham officers responding to an alarm at Courtice Secondary around 3 a.m. Jan. 8 discovered a broken...
View ArticleDurham, Northumberland Liberal MPs receive marijuana in mail
COBOURG -- A late Christmas present of medical-grade marijuana at the Cobourg office of Northumberland-Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd sparked a call to the police. The MP, who also represents Orono...
View ArticleFluctuating temperatures making for unsafe ice on Durham lakes, police warn
DURHAM -- This winter’s wildly fluctuating temperatures have prompted Durham police to issue a warning about unpredictable ice conditions. Ice on lakes Ontario, Scugog and Simcoe can be very thin...
View ArticleRohinie Bisesar, accused in deadly PATH knife attack, appears in court
Rohinie Bisesar, the woman who stands accused of killing Rosemarie Junor in a random knife attack in the PATH last month, briefly appeared in court Friday. Wearing an oversized green sweat suit with...
View ArticleDecember sex assault in Newmarket may be related to previous incidents: police
UPDATE: New police video compiles surveillance footage from 3 incidents
View ArticleSIU clears OPP of wrongdoing in death of Norwood woman in Brighton
BRIGHTON -- The Special Investigation Unit has concluded an OPP officer had no role in the death of a woman in Brighton on Nov. 20. The SIU is an agency that investigates death or serious injury when...
View ArticleToronto men face drug, fraud charges after speeding car stopped by police in...
SCUGOG -- Four Toronto-area men are facing drug charges after Durham cops pulled over a vehicle for speeding just south of Port Perry early Monday morning. Officers noticed a southbound car travelling...
View ArticleOPP using drones more and more in daily police activities
The OPP is increasingly relying on unmanned aerial vehicles – known generically as ‘drones’ – for traffic collision reconstruction, among other uses. The example pictured here is produced by...
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