Police

A 20-year-old man became Greater Sudbury's second homicide victim of 2006 after suffering a single puncture wound to his back the morning of Nov. 24. The victim has been identified as Gavin Nettagog of Sudbury.

Officers from the Sudbury detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a motor vehicle collision which occurred at 10:55 am Thursday (Nov. 23) on Hwy. 17, about 30 kilometres west of Sudbury at Regional Road 55 in Whitefish.

The brother of a Greater Sudbury police officer killed in the line of duty is pleased a permanent memorial will be erected in his memory. A highway overpass at the Hwy. 17 and Hwy. 69 interchange near Sudbury's Four Corners, where Sgt.

Ron Roy, chairman of Action Sudbury, is reminding Greater Sudbury residents that his organization is celebrating their Red Ribbon campaign kickoff for the 2006/2007 festive season, Nov. 24.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month and the Canadian Diabetes Association is applauding a recent annoucement that people using insulin for diabetes are no longer barred from applying to work as a regular constable for the Royal Canadian Mounted Poli

BY KEITH LACEY While dozens of tips have poured in from the public and several officers are working around the clock, Greater Sudbury Police still don't have any idea where a Dowling man is located almost a week after he went missing.

The Children's Aid Society issued two news releases Wednesday (Nov. 22) requesting public assistance in finding a pair of missing girls. The two cases are not related. The first is Rebecca Lawson, a 15-year-old native girl missing since Nov. 14.

Three people were taken to St. Joseph's Health Centre in Sudbury after a two-vehicle collision on Lorne St. Tuesday (Nov. 21) around 12:15 pm.

One person was killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer and a full-sized van on Hwy. 69 S Nov. 21 around 7 am. William Hooey, 26, from Echo Bay, was killed when his van crossed the centre-line and smashed head-on into the tractor trailer.

Over the past 30 years, Greater Sudbury Police have solved 96 percent of the city's homicides, the second highest rate in Canada.