Local News

OPP NEWS RELEASES ******************* 10:25 a.m.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ******************** Sault Ste Marie OPP would like to take this opportunity to thank several citizens, a local Sault Ste Marie business and Sault Ste Marie City Police officers for their assistance at this week's snowmachine crash.

Jim Loney, the Sault-born peace activist currently held in Iraq, has been hailed this morning by Canada's largest newspaper as a "Canadian hero." To read this morning's editorial in the Toronto Star, please click here.

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ******************** At approxmately 12:55 AM this morning a lone male entered the Esso Gas Bar located at Trunk Rd and Wellington St. and demanded money and cigarettes from the clerk.

NEWS RELEASE ********************* The Sault Ste. Marie Fire Fighters Association made a generous food donation this week to both the Community Soup Kitchen and the St. Vincent's Mens Shelter.

Buffalo Bill's Family Restaurant, arguably the best place to get a cheeseburger in Paradise (Michigan), is no more.

Now this should be interesting! The Sault Ste. Marie chapter of the Canadian Hearing Society, which found itself this year at the centre of the billion-dollar HRSDC controversy, is organizing an all-candidate's debate.

When Louisa van Lith found more than a hundred little stuffed critters on her doorstep at the Sault Ste. Marie and District Branch of the Red Cross, she knew just what to do with them.

At 11:16 a.m. today, SooToday.com posted three stories with almost identical headlines about local election candidates Tony Martin (NDP), Christian Provenzano (Liberal) and Ken Walker (Conservative). We did that on purpose. Whenever SooToday.

OPP NEWS RELEASE *********************** Triple fatality investigation active OPP urge public to come forward with information (North Bay, ON) - The North Bay OPP and the North Bay OPP Crime Unit continue their investigation into the triple fatality