16 h. ago Man faces 55 charges after 12 firearms, drugs seized: London police

A Southwold man is facing more than 50 weapons and drug-related charges after an investigation turned up guns, ammo and drugs.

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3 d. ago Man seriously injured in Saturday morning shooting in downtown London

An early-morning Saturday shooting in downtown London left one person with serious injuries and police looking for anyone with video to help in their investigation. Emergency crews were called Saturday around 2 a.m. to a reported shooting near King and Richmond streets, where officers found a male with a gunshot wound who was taken to […]

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4 d. ago Police, province offer new details in acid spill that closed Hwy. 402 lanes

Hwy. 402 reopened Friday following a crash that provincial officials say spilled 100 litres of acid and led to a shutdown along the westbound lanes of the London-area highway. Ontario Provincial Police say it was Wednesday afternoon when a big rig carrying 45,000 litres of monochloroacetic acid was “cut off” by a passenger vehicle on […]

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6 d. ago Man sought in human trafficking probe involving teen: London police

London police have issued an arrest warrant for a Woodstock man in relation to multiple human trafficking-related charges involving a teenager.

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1 week ago Courier charged in London boy's traffic death can keep driving while on bail

A courier charged in a crash that killed a seven-year-old boy outside his south London home is allowed to drive while on bail despite police telling The Free Press they believe a ban on driving was necessary.

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1 week ago London police detail charges in collision that killed boy, 7, exiting school bus

Two people are charged in connection with the collision that killed a London boy as he exited his school bus, police announced on Thursday.

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1 week ago Courier, school bus driver charged in crash that killed boy, 7: London police

A school bus driver and courier are charged in a crash that killed a seven-year-old boy outside his south London home nine days before Christmas, London police say.

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1 week ago London police to announce charges in crash that killed child

London police will provide an update Thursday in the investigation into a crash that killed a seven-year-old boy outside his south-end home nine days before Christmas.

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2 w. ago London man charged after girl, 9, sexually assaulted while out for bike ride

A man is charged after London police say a nine-year-old girl was sexually assaulted while out for a bike ride.

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2 w. ago Sex worker reportedly assaulted by armed man inside car: London police

London police are asking the public for help after a sex-trade worker alleges she was sexually assaulted by a man armed with a handgun. A man in a vehicle approached a sex worker some time between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. Saturday in the 100-block of Rectory Street, north of Hamilton Road, where the woman […]

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2 w. ago London police alert women's agencies after sex worker alleges gunpoint assault

London police have alerted women’s agencies across the city after a sex-trade worker alleged she was sexually assaulted by a man with a handgun.

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2 w. ago Police alert women's agencies after sex worker alleges gunpoint assault

London police have alerted women’s agencies across the city after a sex-trade worker alleged she was sexually assaulted by a man with a handgun.

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2 w. ago Public drug use crackdown averaging 10 seizures a day: Police chief

London’s police chief touted the early success of his public drug use crackdown, saying officers have averaged 10 drug seizures a day in the program's first two months.

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2 w. ago Shot hit London law firm from 'considerable distance', police say

A bullet that struck a London lawyer's office was fired from “a considerable distance” in an apparently targeted incident, says the head of the city police guns and gangs section.

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2 w. ago Lawyer doesn't believe office was targeted by shooter: 'No threats'

The chief executive of a London law firm says he doesn’t believe his office was the intended target of an overnight shooting. An employee at a business in the 1800-block of Oxford Street West, east of Westdel Bourne, contacted London police Wednesday morning after they showed up to work and found a suspected bullet hole, […]

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2 w. ago Police seek public's help after bullet hole found at London office building

London police are asking for the public’s help after they say a firearm was discharged into an office building in the city’s west end.  At 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, an employee of a business in the 1800 block of Oxford Street West contacted police after arriving at work and discovering what appeared to be a bullet […]

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2 w. ago London crackdown on public drug use to date: 11 charges, 540 seizures

London police have seized drugs more than 500 times and laid nearly a dozen charges after launching a crackdown on public drug use three months ago, a new report says.

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3 w. ago Man charged after beer can thrown at cop, store trashed: London police

There wasn’t just stolen stuff in the backpack.

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3 w. ago Man charged after racist outburst, assault in parking lot: London police

A man is charged in connection with what London police allege was a hate-motivated assault after they say a person was subjected to racist comments and attacked in the city's northwest end.

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3 w. ago Homeless camp cleared from property where woman was killed in blaze

It wasn’t long before the homeless returned to an encampment in the backyard of an east London home after police and firefighters cleared the scene following a fatal blaze, neighbours say. A fire ripped through 1884 Avalon St., northwest of Clarke Road and Dundas Street, on April 17, killing resident Teresa Cartwright and causing $500,000 […]

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