Local News

A dead passenger and several ill passengers have led to a Via Rail train being quarantined in Foleyet, CTV news reports. Several of the train's 260 passengers are experiencing flu-like symptoms; one passenger has been airlifted to the hospital.

Local curling coach Tom Coulterman will be inducted into the Sault Ste. Marie Sports Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place on June 6, 2008. Further details have been posted on SooToday.com's Sports page. To go there now, please click here .

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Forty-seven-year-old Douglas Meadows of 362 Second Avenue was arrested on the 8th of May at 7:37 p.m.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Two males were arrested regarding a stolen vehicle pursuit yesterday. On the 8th of May at approximately 11:56 a.m.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Collision involving vehicle and bicycle On the 8th of May at approximately 12 p.m., City Police responded to collision involving a vehicle and a bicycle on Trunk Road.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Two female youths, ages 15 and 16, were charged at a local high school on the 8th of May around 9:20 a.m. and charged with one count of defamatory libel.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Twenty-five-year-old Mary Louise Morine of 31 Johnson Avenue was arrested at Rome’s Independent Grocers on the 8th of May at 11:35 a.m. and charged with one count of theft under $5,000.

CBC News is reporting today that the governments of Canada and the United States have agreed to build a new $5-billion bridge alongside the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit.

Nothing about the past two days has been easy for Sault native Paul Maurice. Today, he met with Toronto media at the Air Canada Centre after having been fired as head coach of the Maple Leafs 24 hours earlier.

The grand chief of the Three Fires Midewiwin Society, the keepers of traditional Anishinabe knowledge and values, wants everyone to know he is not aboriginal. Eddie Benton-Banai is a member of the Fish Clan.