Police

The Christmas season in Sudbury has been marred by a couple of serious pedestrian accidents.

BY KEITH LACEY Sudbury?s Crown attorney?s office was allowed to proceed with the city?s first-ever dangerous offender hearing scheduled for Feb. 5, 2003.

A 60-year-old Coniston woman was killed in an accident that closed down Highway 17 near Coniston Tuesday afternoon.

The head of the Special Investigations Unit has decided all evidence points to suicide in the death of 42-year-old Chelmsford man Michael Karchie. SIU director John A.

Police have arrested a woman in relation to a home invasion in Minnow Lake in early October. The home invasion took place on Oct. 2 at a residence on Bancroft Drive.

An Express Mart on Riverside Drive in Sudbury was robbed on Friday night. Police say at approximately 10:40 pm, a man, armed with a small handgun, confronted the lone attendant and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.

An expert who has written about the thousands of women who survive on social assistance told a coronerÂ?s inquest OntarioÂ?s welfare system is a dysfunctional mess focused on punishing destitute people without any focus on helping them escape the cyc

A Sudbury man who admitted to stealing thousands of addictive prescription pills during a pharmacy break and enter eight months ago will find out early in the new year how long he will be in jail.

Safety is the last thing on children?s minds on Halloween. This isn?t a fact lost on the Greater Sudbury Police Service. The Sudbury Amateur Radio Club will be teaming up with the police to enhance the safety of children Halloween night, this Friday.

Sudbury Police have charged three area teenagers for organizing a fake robbery of a gas bar in Azilda in February.