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Fifty-four-year-old Joseph Ezmer is dead after a three-car crash along U.S. 2 in Michigan's Mackinac County, west of Point Aux Chenes in Moran Township, TV 6 News reports.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Garage fire in Fenwick Township FENWICK TOWNSHIP, ON - (January 19) - On Sunday, January 18, Goulais River Fire and Rescue, and OPP responded to a garage fire at 11 Sundial Road in Fenwick Township.

Nicole Farrell of Sault Ste. Marie has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario with following too closely after a vehicle she was driving collided with a school bus, local OPP report.

OPP NEWS RELEASES ************************* Don't drink and drive... ELLIOT LAKE, ON - (January 19) - On January 15, 2009 at approximately 3:11 p.m. police received information of a possible impaired driver. At 3:23 p.m. police located the vehicle.

An unnamed woman has been released from hospital with non-life threatening injuries after hitting a snowbank while trying to avoid colliding with an OPP cruiser, the OPP report.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Twenty-eight-year-old Dustin Brechin of 623 Shafer Avenue was arrested on the 18th of January at 8 a.m.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Twenty-seven-year-old Elliott Southwind of #8-16 Terry Fox Place was arrested on the 16th of January at 6:55 p.m. on Queen Street East and charged with one count of theft under $5,000.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Twenty-five-year-old Robert Day of 112 Railroad Avenue was arrested on the 17th of January at 3:25 a.m. on Alexandra Street and charged with one count of transportation fraud.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Break and enters - The Verdi Hall on Queen Street West was entered sometime overnight from the 17-18th of January.