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Woman sues Barrhaven slo-pitch league for $1M
It was the day slo-pitch in Barrhaven turned ugly, when scoring a run for an out-of-control runner meant bowling over the catcher at home plate, leaving her with permanent injuries, according to a...
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Ottawa fentanyl dealer jailed 8 yrs for selling "death and misery"
Cortney Rattray-Johnson “sold death and misery” as she led the fast-money life of a hard-drug dealer who preyed on Ottawa’s most vulnerable. That’s what she was told by a judge Tuesday, as a sad...
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Man wanted in double slaying has struggled with alcohol addiction
When Alam Gabriel Buoc — the youngest of nine — arrived from Sudan as a boy in 1996, his parents figured his troubles in life would be limited to learning English, or worse, braving the Ottawa winters....
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Two-year-old Ottawa boy fended for himself in apartment for 10 days after mom...
In a testament to the human spirit, a two-year-old Ottawa boy fended for himself for 10 days after his mother was killed in their fifth-floor apartment of a public housing building in Mechanicsville,...
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Accused Ottawa killer had previously avoided dangerous-offender tag
Mohamad S. Barkhadle looked confused Thursday as he appeared in an Ottawa court on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of the woman whose toddler son spent 10 days fending for himself after...
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After brief stint on the run, accused double-killer charged in Ottawa shootings
Alam Gabriel Buoc’s short-lived life on the run came to an end on Thursday night when Ottawa police arrested him at a west-end gas station, just a seven-minute drive from where he’s accused of killing...
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'I lost everything': Ottawa man loses home after false fentanyl bust
The Ottawa police drug squad didn’t waste time or take any chances when it got a complaint that fentanyl was being sold out of a public housing unit on Caldwell Avenue. All of the evidence —...
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OC Transpo driver jailed for child-sex crimes
He’s the last guy you want driving the school bus or anywhere near children, let alone naked kids on a nude beach. But that’s where a disgraced OC Transpo driver found himself, first at the wheel of a...
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Ottawa man arrested on child-sex charges held in jail
He was the guy in the neighbourhood who always had popsicles for the kids, and a lot of times he’d invite them down into his basement to make movies. He’d film them as they acted out their directed...
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'Beyond hope': Sadistic Ottawa rapist branded dangerous offender
Abdirahman Ahmed’s trail of terror has ended after an Ottawa judge branded the sadistic rapist a dangerous offender, sending him to prison for an indeterminate sentence. The designation is for life and...
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Arnprior doctor, hospital sued in $5-million malpractice claim
When Ray Nicholas noticed a bump on his stomach, he went to see his family doctor and was advised it was likely a hernia, and that there was no need for treatment. A month later, in July 2015, he...
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OC Transpo driver accused in child sex crimes case
An OC Transpo driver accused of sexually abusing three young boys from 2012 to 2016 is now facing charges of threatening to kill one of their parents. Philip Herbert, the accused child-sex criminal, is...
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Accused killer back in jail, Picard may appeal ruling that reinstated murder...
Accused killer Adam Picard is back in jail after surrendering to police Friday morning. The former military man dabbed at tears and sat shaking in court moments before Ottawa police handcuffed him on...
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Ottawa jail catches drug-smuggler with 8 Kinder Surprise eggs in his rectum
Most guys are trying to get out of the notorious Ottawa jail, but not young Damian O’Reilly. He was actually pretty desperate to get inside the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre after hatching a...
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Jasmine Crescent stairwell killer pleads guilty to manslaughter
Connor Stevenson, just 18 and unarmed, was knifed to death in the stairwell of his Jasmine Crescent apartment building over 14 lousy grams of weed. It was April 14, 2015 — a Tuesday afternoon — and he...
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ByWard Market serial rapist guilty of drugging, assaulting and videotaping 14...
Serial rapist Philip Wilson called it The Pink Drink. He mixed it himself, and laced it with rape drugs such as GHB and Ketamine, only to bill it as a keep-the-party-going cocktail to his targets —...
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Alleged fake dentist now facing assault charges
Ottawa’s Omar Anwar, who was arrested in June on charges that he impersonated a dentist and forged medical school records, is now also facing several counts of assault. The criminal investigation...
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'My mother was let down': The failings behind the unexplained death of Violet...
Violet Lucas conquered more than her fair share of hardship. After escaping an abusive husband, she raised seven children on her own. She had only a Grade 10 education and when her children were old...
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Jasmine Crescent killers plead guilty to manslaughter
Issaiah Clachar, just 17, used to tell his mother he’d go far in life, and well beyond his family apartment on Jasmine Crescent. But, in the end, he was killed just steps from his building after...
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Borutski trial: 'I don't feel comfortable being here alone in case he shows up'
Days before Carol Culleton was beaten and strangled to death, her boyfriend told her to call the police about the handyman that wouldn’t leave her alone. There were unwanted texts, and that morning she...
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