Police

It must have been a loud wake-up call at 6:30 am July 13 when the driver of a tractor trailer lost control of his rig while navigating an off-ramp and landed onto a residential street in the city's South End.

Greater Sudbury Police have been actively investigating a series of brush fires that have occurred in the Copper Cliff in the past 18 months. Through their investigation, police have determined that a brush fire that occurred Aug.

A month after a fatal crash took the life of two teens on Highway 17 near Markstay, a second collision has taken place on the same stretch of highway.

A Sudbury woman has been charged under the Criminal Code of Canada with failing to provide adequate care, causing unnecessary pain and suffering and abandoning animals in distress.

At approximately 6 am on July 9, Sudbury Fire Services were alerted to a fire at 64 Xavier St. Sudbury. Once the fire was brought under control it was determined that it was deliberately set in the area of the outside front porch of the upper unit.

A 63-year-old man was taken to hospital after trying to cross the intersection at Brady and Paris St. Sunday when he was struck by a northbound vehicle driving on a green light.

Greater Sudbury Police Chief Ian Davidson is launching an investigation into complaints of police brutality.

BY KEITH LACEY Even his own lawyer admitted it was humourous that a Dowling man thought he's get away with growing huge marijuana plants in his back yard. "You could see the plants from hundreds of yards away . . .

Officers with the Greater Sudbury Police Service's traffic management unit were kept busy over the long weekend, laying a total of 39 charges.

A Sudbury man was blueberry picking near Radar Rd. in Hanmer June 2 when two young boys armed with a shotgun approached demanding money. The man didn't have any money so the pair made off with his blueberries.