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Felicity Altiman, 23, was released from custody Thursday after spending just under two months in jail for hitting a woman over the head with a pool cue during a drunken brawl Dec. 7.

Lawyers for a former Sudbury financial adviser who has been charged with bilking dozens of clients out of millions of dollars investments argued Thursday they would like Pierre Montpellier?s trial heard outside Sudbury.

A Sudbury bookkeeper who stole more than $90,000 from the grocery store where she worked was spared a jail sentence Wednesday, due in large part to the fact she repaid all the missing money.

Three people have died on Highway 17 in less than a week.

Ontario's new Liberal government recently announced it is considering bringing back photo radar to catch speeding drivers.

Exactly one week before Super Bowl 2004 a Sudbury woman fired from her job as a ?Bud Girl? after being convicted of drunk driving after last year?s Super Bowl party has lost her appeal to have the conviction overturned.

A Sudbury lawyer charged last summer with several counts of sexual misconduct returns to court in late February. Donald Plaunt faces several charges following a lengthy police investigation.

BY KEITH LACEY klacey@northernlife.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] The timing, apparently, couldn?t be better. For the second time in two weeks, Greater Sudbury Police were called to an area high school Wednesday to investigate an assault.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] What promises to be one of the more disturbing murder cases in this cityÂ?s history wonÂ?t be going before a jury for at least one month, maybe two.