26 h. ago Toronto woman pleads guilty to negligence in dog attack that seriously injured child

A Toronto woman who faced multiple charges in a dog attack that seriously injured a child has pleaded guilty to some of them, including a criminal charge of negligence. Court records show Patrycja Siarek entered the pleas in a Toronto court last Friday. She had also been charged with infractions under the provincial Dog Owners’ […]

Events

58 h. ago Ukraine launches massive drone attack on Russia before key talks

Two people were killed and 18 were injured, including three children, in the massive drone attack that spanned 10 Russian regions, officials said.

Events

6 d. ago Flight attendant pleads guilty to secretly recording teen girl in plane bathroom

BOSTON — A former American Airlines flight attendant has pleaded guilty to secretly recording video of a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom and having recordings of four other girls using the lavatories. Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and […]

Sport

6 d. ago Two men plead not guilty in OD deaths of 3 Kansas City Chiefs fans after game

PLATTE CITY, Mo. — Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday in the drug overdose deaths of three Kansas City Chiefs fans whose bodies were found in a backyard two days after they got together to watch the final game of the regular season in 2024. Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson appeared separately via video from […]

Sport

7 d. ago SEMENTILLI TRIAL: Key witness was told Monica ‘wanted her husband gone’

Christopher Austin pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in January

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7 d. ago B.C. court orders $110,000 in fines for unlicensed solid waste facility

Basran Industries Ltd. and Basran Fuels Ltd. pleaded guilty to two offences relating to the unlicensed solid waste facility.

Economics

7 d. ago London Knights star Cam Allen gets fine, probation for drunk driving

A star London Knights defenceman has pleaded guilty and been sentenced for impaired driving after a crash in southwest London. Cam Allen, 20, was supposed to make his first court appearance on Thursday after he was charged Feb. 8 following a single-car crash near Colonel Talbot Road and Clayton Walk in the city’s Lambeth neighbourhood […]

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7 d. ago Woman and man wanted for 2024 armed robbery spree in Scarborough and Don Mills

A man and a woman are sought following a week-long string of armed robberies in Scarborough and Don Mills last summer. Toronto Police have now released images of a woman believed to be responsible for three of the holdups and a man, suspected of being involved in the fourth and final incident, hoping the public […]

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8 d. ago Sundre man pleads guilty to manslaughter in connection with 1970s death of Calgary teen

For nearly half a century, Sundre resident Ronald James Edwards escaped punishment for the 1976 stabbing death of Calgary teen Pauline Brazeau. Monday was his day of reckoning. Edwards, 75, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter in connection with the Jan. 9, 1976, death of Brazeau, whom he repeatedly stabbed before leaving her […]

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8 d. ago Accused acquitted of murder in case of Ontario woman found dead in suitcase

A jury has acquitted a Toronto woman on trial for the second-degree murder of a 41-year-old Caledon woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase.

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9 d. ago Owner of NYC day care where toddler fatally ingested fentanyl gets 45 years in prison

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal drug charges. Grei Mendez, 37, dropped her head into her crossed arms in anguish as Judge Jed S. Rakoff announced […]

Events

1 week ago In Calgary courts: Sundre man pleads guilty to manslaughter for teen's 1976 slaying

Noteworthy legal cases in Calgary and area from March 3-7, 2025

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1 week ago Dump truck driver pleads guilty in fatal cyclist collision in North Vancouver

The crash happened at the intersection of Lonsdale Avenue and 23rd Street on March 6, 2023, as the truck was making a right turn. 

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1 week ago North Carolina company owner pleads guilty over attempted technology sale to China

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The owner of a North Carolina company pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to trying to sell electronic devices that have military applications to China without having a required U.S. government license, authorities said. David C. Bohmerwald, who was formally charged in October with violating the Export Control Reform Act […]

Economics

1 week ago Ottawa man, 57, sentenced to 6 years, must pay restitution to child sex victim

Brent McMullen, 57, pleaded guilty in January to charges of sexual interference and making child pornography among other offences.

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1 week ago ‘UNCONTROLLABLE,’ DANGEROUS’: TTC stabber’s parole eligibility set at 18 years in teen’s murder

Jordan O'Brien-Tobin, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the unprovoked 2023 slaying

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1 week ago Woman pleads guilty to fatally stabbing boyfriend during fight while high

Christine Bishop and Terry Albert’s relationship was described as “tumultuous.” The couple didn’t share any children, but both were addicted to drugs, including fentanyl, the powerful, highly addictive synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and the main drug implicated in the ongoing opioid drug crisis. Both of them were […]

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2 w. ago No time behind bars sought for Airbnb host who attacked Alberta sisters in Vancouver

Arvin Pasha pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm for the May 2022 attack on two sisters vacationing from Alberta.

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2 w. ago Chinese national pleads guilty to 2022 deadly stabbing on TTC subway

Vanessa Kurpiewska, 31, did not know the man who attacked her on Dec. 8, 2022

Society

2 w. ago Toronto woman shares how costs of living in Maldives are way different than home

One Canadian who swapped city living for a life on an island of 500 people in the Maldives says she couldn’t be happier.Former Toronto resident Gen Darling, 31, is a full-time content creator and co-owner of Jimmy's Excursions, a newly launched tour company in the Maldives that organizes snorkelling, freediving and group trips.Expat life isn't new for Darling."After graduating from Dalhousie University in 2015, I left Canada to travel South East Asia with my best friends, and after four months of travel, I got a job in Taiwan teaching English," she said. "I mark this as the start of my expat life."Finding love in the MaldivesThe Maldives wasn’t exactly part of Darling's plan."The short answer to this is that I fell in love. I met my now husband while I was on vacation here in 2017, and I immediately had a good energy about the country," she said. "I felt a freedom I hadn't felt in other places. There's calmness and peace in the way of living here that...

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