Category: Hamilton News

UPDATE FROM JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL:An envelope was received, today, aboard Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall around 3:30 p.m., on the Marine Corps side of the base. Shortly after receiving the letter, 11 people started to feel ill and caused the evacuation of the building. Engine 161’s crew evacuated and decontaminated 11 patients from the hazard area, all evaluated by EMS-3transported to area hospital. All units have picked up, scene turned over to @FBIWFO @FBI pic.twitter.com/cAbNW75zOJ Powered by WPeMatico

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“We will use criminal penalties,” Mr. Sessions said. “We will use civil penalties. We will use whatever tools we have to hold people accountable for breaking our laws.” The lawsuit pending in Federal District Court in Cleveland consolidates more than 400 complaints by cities, counties and Native American tribes nationwide. They accused manufacturers, distributors and dispensers of prescription opioids of using misleading marketing to promote the painkillers. The lawsuit also accuses the defendants of playing down the addictiveness of…

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the Department of Homeland Security was working with state and local elections officials to prevent attacks on electoral systems, which were wider than initially thought during the 2016 vote. She also cited a program to provide $40 million to counter Russian and Chinese propaganda, though she failed to mention that the money was delivered to the State Department only after months of delays and withering criticism from Republicans in Congress….

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TORONTO – Accused serial killer Bruce McArthur will be back in a Toronto court today via video link. The 66-year-old self-employed landscaper was arrested in January and has since been charged him with six counts of first-degree murder. Police say most of his alleged victims were men who had gone missing from Toronto’s gay village. Story continues below READ MORE: Homicide investigating tip from neighbour who used to live next door to alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur Investigators have said…

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OTTAWA – The four candidates competing to lead Ontario’s Opposition will face off once more today as the Progressive Conservatives try to turn the page following weeks of unrivalled upheaval. Former Tory legislator Christine Elliott, Toronto lawyer and businesswoman Caroline Mulroney, former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford and social conservative advocate Tanya Granic Allen are taking part in the second and final debate before the party selects a new leader. Story continues below Former leader Patrick Brown – who…

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ELLIOT LAKE, Ont. – Provincial police in northern Ontario say a man whose remains were found in a wooded area on Feb. 14 was thevictim of a homicide. OPP earlier said the remains, which were found by officers in Elliot Lake, Ont., belong to 31-year-old Joseph Topping. He had been reported missing on Jan. 8. The homicide ruling was made following a post-mortem conducted Monday in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Police have not indicated how Topping died, nor have…

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NANTICOKE, Ont. – Two giant chimneys at the Nanticoke generating station will be toppled today. A blasting operation to demolish the towers is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. READ MORE: New Ontario renewable energy projects include one on former site of coal plant Ontario provincial police are asking the public to avoid the area near the station on Haldimand Road 55 in Nanticoke, on land and on Lake Erie. The public is asked to stay at least 500 metres away from…

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A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for the man wanted in Toronto’s eighth homicide of the year. In a press conference on Tuesday evening, Toronto’s homicide squad said the victim, 59-year-old Terrance Coughlin died after an assault near Bathurst Street and St. Clair Avenue West just before midnight on Monday evening. He was transported to hospital in life-threatening condition but had later succumbed to his injuries. Story continues below Homicide detectives have determined that the victim and suspect knew…

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