Police

During an annual road safety blitz, vehicles were stopped on successive days in late May and individuals from four taxi companies were charged by Greater Sudbury Police.

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] A Coniston man who Â?snappedÂ? and attacked his common-law wife with a knife, and who was shot at by police after he attacked two officers, has been sent to a federal penitentiary.

A Sudbury man accused of being the driver in a fatal boating accident last summer on Lake Ramsey will go on trial.

BY VICKI GILHULA [email protected] The Sudbury student who was billed $275 for long distance calls to an African island she did not make is not alone.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN Gord Lundgren sees a lot from the window of his Lloyd Street apartment. He watches as cars speed down the steep downtown hill and get into accidents at the corner of Lloyd and Elm. Something has got to change, he says.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that Greater SudburyÂ?s smoking bylaw, prohibiting lighting up in public places, is valid.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] Two eyewitnesses say a man charged with assaulting police officers following a routine traffic incident testified Thursday the accused never grabbed at an officer?s handgun.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] A Whitefish First Nations hunter who shot an elk to provide for his family has, for the second time, had a court decide his aboriginal treaty rights allowed him to hunt near his home.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] A father of two young children who molested an eight-year-old girl has been spared a jail sentence.

A man with anger problems will have to address them while he?s out on probation. David Poisson pleaded guilty in early March to threatening to injure his wife. The couple has now separated and he has moved to eastern Ontario.