Police find bodies covered under leaves

SOMERVILLE TWP., Ont. — Police have confirmed the body of a man found in a car covered in leaves and branches near Burnt River, Ont., Tuesday morning is that of 19-year-old Jonathan Bujold. A pair of wheel marks in a ditch led police into the dense foliage east of the intersection of Kawartha Lakes Rd. 121 and Burnt River Rd. That's where they found a red  Civic buried under dense foliage. The car couldn't be seen from the road. Inside they found a man's body.

River victim identified

Police have released the name of the man who fell into the Thames River Tuesday.
Thirty-year-old Jeremy Bennett, of London, fell into the water near Carfrae St. bridge at Richmond St. around 3:40 p.m.
Police and firefighters raced to the south branch of the river along Horton St. and scoured both sides of the banks while firefighter marine rescue units rode boats up and down the river.

SIU probe of death

Ontario's police watchdog agency says there was no wrongdoing on the part of London police when a group home resident died when they tried to subdue him for paramedics.
The Special Investigations Unit was called in after the 20-year-old died last Aug. 3 after police were called to assist paramedics at a Clarke Rd. group home around 6:30 p.m. when the man wouldn't let them take him to hospital.

Paramedics performed CPR at the scene but he was later pronounced dead .

Trial date set for accused killer Michael Rafferty

The first-degree murder trial of Michael Rafferty will begin Jan. 16, 2012 in London.
Accused of killing Tori Stafford in Woodstock in 2009, Rafferty will remain in custody and likely not appear in court, even by video, until that date, court heard Wednesday.
The start of the trial was confirmed by Superior Court Justice Thomas Heeney.
But Heeney noted the first few weeks will be taken up with pre-trial motions, then jury selection.

Food prices set to rise

EXETER - Surging growth in Asia will push up grain and other commodity prices for years to come, says BMO economist Doug Porter.
"What's driving commodities is relentless growth in emerging markets," said Porter speaking to an farm seminar Wednesday.
Porter said the lagging US economy is becoming less important as emerging markets such as China roar out of the economic downturn driving global growth.
"That's a game changer...we think we are in the middle innings of a long-term run in commodities."

Japan stops nuclear plant leak

 TOKYO - Japan stopped highly radioactive water leaking into the sea on Wednesday from a crippled nuclear plant and acknowledged it could have given more information to neighbouring countries about contamination in the ocean.
Despite the breakthrough in plugging the leak at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, engineers need to pump 11.5 million litres (11,500 tonnes) of contaminated water back into the ocean because they have run out of storage space at the facility. The water was used to cool over-heated fuel rods.