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With the hockey season well underway and the Christmas shopping season just around the corner, Greater Sudbury police are asking the public to park sensibly when downtown.

Thirty years after committing his heinous sex crimes, a local man was given a three-year penitentiary term Monday on top of almost two years he?s spent behind bars in pre-trial custody.

A young con artist who preyed on senior citizens for his home renovation and snow removal scams was given a 30-day jail stint and ordered to repay $8,140 to his victims. Matthew St.Aubin, 23, pleaded guilty to several counts of fraud under $5,000.

With the hockey season well underway and the Christmas shopping season just around the corner, Greater Sudbury police are asking the public to park sensibly when downtown.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] The young parents of two children who were victims of horrific neglect were sentenced to nine-month jail terms Thursday.

Police are requesting public assistance in finding Daphne Kochar, 42, who was last seen in Sudbury on Sunday morning. Kochar is described as East Indian, five feet tall, 175 pounds, with short, straight brown hair and brown eyes.

BY JASON THOMPSON The illicit psychedelic party drug Ecstasy, probably best know for its connection to gatherings called raves, may have some therapeutic value, says a scientist studying the chemical known scientifically as MDMA (methylenedioxymetham

Police are requesting public assistance in finding Daphne Kochar, 42, who was last seen in Sudbury on Sunday morning. Kochar is described as East Indian, five feet tall, 175 pounds, with short, straight brown hair and brown eyes.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW scott@northernlife.

A 23-year-old man has been fined $490 and has lost six demerit points after nearly hitting a young girl as she stepped off the curb towards her school bus. The school bus was stopped with its lights flashing on Auger Ave. Oct.