Police

They may be the lucky seven - of nine vehicles stolen within Greater Sudbury over the weekend, only two have not returned to their owner's driveways.

Three young offenders face 27 criminal charges after members of the Greater Sudbury Police Service's street crime unit acted on information from the uniform division in relation to several incidents in the city's South End in late May.

At least three young offenders are to blame for a series of incidents in the city's south end, according to the Greater Sudbury Police Service. The break-ins and thefts have earned the offenders, who can't be identified, 27 criminal charges.

A trucking company owner facing charges relating to a train accident that caused almost $3 million in damages in April of 2003 in Capreol accepted some legal advice Monday, even though he will still represent himself at a preliminary hearing next wee

BY BILL BRADLEY [email protected] Organized crime is everywhere and ripping you off, says former RCMP officer Chris Mathers. Mathers is the author of Crime School: Money Laundering, True Crime Meets the World of Business and Finance.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] A veteran Sudbury police constable will have to wait most of the summer to find out if heÂ?s been found guilty of assaulting his date.

Around 3 am on Monday morning, a tractor trailer carrying about 38 cows, left the Southwest Sudbury Bypass highway and crashed into a rock cut. The aftermath was a macabre scene with bits of twisted metal mixed with the moans of dying cattle.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] A young Sudbury man who has spent the last 14 months trying to rebuild his life was spared sentencing Tuesday until he finishes school.

SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] Paulette Pokonzie has had a hard life, yet she always found time to help others out in the community. On Jan.

BY LAURA STEVENS The Sudbury District JailÂ?s yard is now a place for spritual healing for native inmates. Once used as a recreational ground for inmates, the yard is now the home of a full-sized teepee, or sweat lodge. Ontario Lt.- Gov. James K.