Thursday, March 31, 2011

Beer store parking lot bust

A car crash in a Goderich Beer Store parking lot led to impaired driving charges for a Central Huron woman.
A Huron OPP officer investigating a driver who allegedly struck a parked vehicle at the Beer Store Tuesday morning arrested the driver after she failed a breathalyzer test, said police.
The suspect was taken to the Huron OPP detachment where further tests showed her blood alcohol was over the legal 80-milligram limit.
A 46-year-old woman is charged with impaired driving.

The Sarnia Road bridge is on the move

The CP rail bridge was been lifted off its foundations over the CP Rail line between Hyde Park Road and Wonderland Road Thursday.
The 50,000 lb., steel-truss, one-lane bridge, in place since 1909, was lifted out of the way by crane.
The new railway crossing is expected to be finished in the fall.
The one-lane bridge was blamed for frequent bottlenecks.

Second body found

WOODSTOCK - Investigators at the scene of a Woodstock apartment fire confirmed a second grim discovery Thursday morning.
Officers discovered the remains of a second victim at approximately 9:35 a.m
With the remains of the two victims recovered, and no other residents unaccounted for, Freeman said the investigation will now focus on the cause of the explosion and fire that engulfed the three-story, 45-unit apartment building.
It's believed a gas dryer caused the explosion that killed two and injured seven.

Terror suspect arrested at Pearson airport


TORONTO - The RCMP say information from the Somali community helped them arrest a former University of Toronto student for terror-related offences as he was about to board a flight at Pearson airport to Egypt and then Somalia.
Police seized undisclosed items from Mohamed Hersi, 25, of Toronto, before charging him with planning to participate in terrorist activities and counseling another person to do the same.

Second body may have been found


WOODSTOCK - Emergency workers at the scene of the Victoria Street apartment fire may have made another grim discovery.
Just before 6 p.m., two police officers carried a white bag from the rubble of the gutted building and gently placed it in the back of a black minivan.
The minivan, which was being driven by Jeff Glendinning, the owner of Plattsville's Glendinning Funeral Home, slowly left the apartment complex parking lot. Standing near the exit to the apartment complex.

Western to expand student residences

The University of Western Ontario is expanding its students residences with a plan to add upwards of 1,000 beds.
The move comes in response to the Ontario government’s promise last year and again this week in its budget to increase access to post-secondary institutions by 60,000 places by the 2015-2016 school year.
The new residence, would provide beds to mostly first-year students, but also provide space for upper-year and international students. The goal is to have it open in September 2013.