Police

The Public’s assistance is requested in locating a missing 14-year-old female. Cassandra Burton was last seen on the morning of May 8.

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the number of people injured or killed while riding ATVs, according to a Manitoulin OPP news release. In 2007, the OPP Northeast Region investigated seven fatal ATV collisions.

Father Bernard Cloutier will be back in Sudbury court on the morning of July 21, following a preliminary inquiry hearing that took place recently.

As part of Police Week, running May 11 to 17, the Greater Sudbury Police Service will have a display from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

All of the 165 OPP detachments are taking part in the annual Canada Road Safety Week campaign which runs from May 13 to May 19. The campaign is aimed at making Ontario's roads the safest in the world.

Following on the heels of last month's week-long coroner's inquest into the 2006 death of a Sudbury miner killed on-the-job, the man's family has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against those they feel were involved in his death.

The Greater Sudbury Police Service responded to a break and enter in progress in the south end of the city Monday afternoon. The complainant was sleeping when he heard someone rummaging through his bedroom.

A male and a female were walking in the area of Frood Road and Beech Street on May 11 when they were approached by a lone person, who shoved the male to the ground, grabbed the female’s purse and took off.

Espanola OPP officers received a report from a bus driver with Veteran’s Transportation advising she had found a small bag of marijuana on her bus after her bus route from Massey to Espanola High School on the morning of May 6.

South Porcupine OPP Crime Unit officers attended a post-mortem examination of the woman who died on a train excursion with a tour group on a Via Rail train early Friday morning.