Police

Highway 69 S. was closed for almost five hours Wednesday following an accident which killed a man. George Ross, 64, was involved in a two-vehicle head-on collision on Highway 69 S., near 12 Mile Road in Georgian Bay Township.

A Copper Cliff man who assaulted two young siblings four years ago was placed under house arrest for six months.

The Ministry of Labour has laid two charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act against Falconbridge Ltd. relating to the death one year ago of Kevin Payette.

Four officers with the Greater Sudbury Police Service are in Toronto providing extra security for this weekÂ?s World Youth Day and the visit of Pope John Paul. Police from 14 jurisdictions in the province are assisting with security measures.

Two men attempted to rob a blueberry vendor on Friday, July 19, at the Mr. Gas parking lot on Highway 17 E in Wahnapitae. bottom Greater Sudbury Police headquarters The men approached the vendor earlier in the day and asked about buying blueberries.

Lockerby Composite School students will act as lawyers in a mock criminal trial to be presided over by Justice Patricia Hennessy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice today at the Sudbury courthouse.

A Chelmsford man was lucky he wasn?t seriously injured after his motor vehicle failed to negotiate a railway crossing at MacKenzie Street in Chelmsford Sunday afternoon. The vehicle became lodged on railway tracks with an oncoming train approaching.

By Keith Lacey The teenager accused of stabbing a prominent Sudbury labour leader in the neck during a dispute has been found not criminally responsible for his actions.

There were a number of attempted auto thefts with the motorists still in their vehicles in Hanmer over the weekend.

BY KEITH LACEY A Sudbury man who added spitting in the face of a police officer to his long line of criminal indiscretions was handed a five-month jail sentence Wednesday.