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CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Bradley Charrette, age 18, of 108 Crawford Avenue will appear in bail court today. It is alleged that on Saturday July 28 the accused fired an air rifle at a youth on Smale Avenue.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Craig Witty, age 35, of 51 Old Garden River Road and Ralph Burby, age 22, of 864 Queen Street East, or both due in bail court today.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Leta Hansen, age 48, of 125 Gore Street will appear in bail court today. It is alleged that yesterday afternoon the accused was found on Gore Street in an intoxicated condition.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASES ************************* There were two reports of mischief yesterday: - A shed at a residence in the 100 block of Rushmere Drive was damaged. - The wooden bear carvings on Foster Drive (near the Civic Centre) were damaged.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* RENFREW, ON, July 31 - The Ontario Provincial Police Criminal Investigation Branch, the Windsor Police Service and Renfrew OPP can confirm that Jesse Norman Imeson was arrested on a Canadian-wide arrest warr

Don't let the huge holes in the dirt and mounds of earth all over the waterfront near City Hall fool you.

SooToday.com received the following letter from Peter Denley, the provincial NDP candidate for the Algoma-Manitoulin riding.

A couple of SooToday.com readers sent us photos from a two-vehicle crash this afternoon at Churchill Boulevard and Queen Street East. This pickup ended up shiny-side down, but early reports indicated there were no serious injuries.

OPP NEWS RELEASES ************************* Driver identified in fatal ATV collision ELLIOT LAKE, ON - On July 26, 2007, the East Algoma OPP responded to an ATV collision on South Bay Road, Elliot Lake, Ontario.

Limited rainfall over an extended period has left Sault area forests highly vulnerable to forest fires. Yesterday, the Township of Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional declared a fire ban for that jurisdiction.