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The Soo Greyhounds captured the Ontario Hockey League's west division title in dramatic fashion on Saturday night at the Steelbacdk Centre. Dustin Jeffrey scored the winner 2:48 into overtime as the Hounds edged the Saginaw Spirit 3-2.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Winter conditions contribute to multiple collisions Mother Nature dumped a substantial amount of wet snow on the area on Thursday and drivers failed to adjust their driving habits, again! East Algoma OPP res

OPP NEWS RELEASES ************************* Theft of fuel BLIND RIVER, ON - Sometime overnight on Tuesday, March 11, approximately $600 worth of diesel fuel was stolen from a transport truck parked in an industrial area on the east end of Blind River

Algoma Steel Inc. owner Essar Group is in negotiations to buy U.S. steelmaker Sparrows Point, reports the Economic Times of India. Arcelor Mittal has been courting potential buyers for the U.S.

NEWS RELEASE LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY ************************* SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Lake Superior State University has hired Scott J. Amos Ph.D.

Members of Michigan’s Legislature could vote late next week on a bill to authorize a second Democratic presidential primary for the state. As SooToday.

SooToday.com has received the following from a resident of the 100 block of Wellington Street East, regarding a swarming incident that happened in front of his house early Friday morning.

Forty-four-year-old Allan McNaught of 179 March Street was charged yesterday with theft under $5,000. McNaught was apprehended after he alleged tried to lift a $50 watch yesterday afternoon from the Sears store at Station Mall.

Lara Martin, age 20, whose place of abode was not initally known to investigators, was hit with 15 charges yesterday by the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service's fraud squad.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* One death confirmed in single snowmobile collision – Point Au Baril POINT AU BARIL, ON - Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a single snowmobile collision that occurred today at approximately 12 noon