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A woman tearfully told a hushed Sudbury courtroom Wednesday how her life was devastated by repeated sexual attacks 25 years ago.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] Two local men have been committed to stand trial in relation to the beating of another man who was blinded in his right eye after being kicked and punched repeatedly earlier this year.

BY KEITH LACEY An expert in poverty law and Employment Insurance (EI) told a coronerÂ?s jury, people who commit welfare fraud should not be dealt with under CanadaÂ?s criminal justice system.

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.

BY RICK PUSIAK Steve, Marc and Serge Gravel say they have nowhere else to turn. Steve, Marc and Serge Gravel are asking the Children?s Aid Society to remove their sister from their mother?s care.

BY KEITH LACEY A coronerÂ?s jury was given numerous examples of some of the acts of desperation single mothers on social assistance resort to in order to survive.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] David Popescu?s criminal conviction for assaulting his mother won?t affect his campaign for mayor.

A bookkeeper who stole $52,000 from her employer was spared a jail sentence Friday.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] Unless a religious Sudbury man is willing to accept counselling and change his behaviour toward his frail, elderly mother, he won?t be able to return home. After a full-day trial Wednesday, Justice A.J.

BY KEITH LACEY The Crown is expected to ask for a lengthy jail sentence for a young Sudbury man accused of taunting, following and then severely beating a gay teenager and throwing him down a set of stairs three months ago.