Michael Swan killer walks free after pleading guilty to lesser charge of...
Michael Swan's grieving family has been spared a fourth murder trial after one of their son's killers pleaded guilty on Tuesday to manslaughter in the 2010 home invasion that left the Barrhaven teen...
View ArticleConvicted rapists walk out of Ottawa court, skip town and prison
Two international students — both convicted in the gang rape of a young Ottawa woman — have skipped town and possibly the country. Read More
View ArticleOttawa police release mugshots of wanted rapists believed to have fled Canada
Ottawa police have released mugshots of two convicted rapists believed to have fled the country while out on bail. Read More
View ArticleMother's anger spills out in court as son's killer sentenced
Their feud simmered in jail and ended in broad daylight on a Vanier street corner. Read More
View ArticleOttawa arsonist under investigation in drunk-driving death while on parole
Robert Patrick Gill, the Bank Street arsonist who spread fears of terrorism after setting fires at the offices of a U.S. defence contract agency and the High Commission of Bangladesh in 2008, is now...
View ArticleOttawa arsonist cleared in deadly crash
Robert Patrick Gill, the Bank Street arsonist who caused $7-million in damage in 2008, has been cleared by police in a deadly crash while he was on parole and living at a halfway house in North Bay....
View ArticleThree women guilty in Facebook sex-shame attack
On July 3, 2015 a young woman was abducted at knifepoint from her Donald Street apartment by three women who later degraded her in a sex-shame attack that was broadcast on Facebook. Read More
View ArticleLiberal Steven MacKinnon handily beats challengers in Gatineau
Incumbent Steven MacKinnon kept a Liberal grip on Gatineau Monday night, handily beating his closest challenger by thousands of votes. As of late Monday night, MacKinnon had a more than 8,000-vote...
View ArticleOttawa extortionist faces sentencing in online scheme to get young women to...
In an elaborate online extortion scheme designed to get young women to perform sexually-degrading acts live on the internet for his own gratification, Ryan McCann preyed on five young women — one of...
View ArticleSt. Pat's teacher guilty of sexually assaulting students
Robert Lavergne is the last guy you want teaching young girls. And as much as he tried to explain away his unwanted touching as “friendly hugs,” the 55-year-old former St. Patrick’s Catholic High...
View ArticleOttawa man guilty of child porn, secretly filming girl at Carlingwood mall
There was plenty of room in Courtroom No. 4 on Thursday, but still the folks in the front row were moving around and talking about where to sit as if a sold-out show was about to start — and...
View ArticlePimps spared prison, judge strikes down mandatory minimum sentence for...
In a rare ruling, an Ottawa judge has spared two pimps the mandatory minimum prison term for human trafficking involving minors, calling it cruel and unusual punishment as the pimps only groomed their...
View ArticleOttawa's new police chief, Peter Sloly, has 'exciting' first day on patrol
Ottawa's new police chief, Peter Sloly, reports on social media that he had an exciting first day on patrol. Read More
View ArticleOttawa woman charged in Little Italy homicide, arrest made in Murray Street case
Ottawa police detectives were busy on Saturday, working two homicides. The suspect in one case turned herself in Friday at Elgin Street police headquarters with a defence lawyer at her side. Nichole...
View Article'They left everyone high and dry': Group displaced by fire living in tents...
There’s a dozen or so folks living in a small forest just north of O Train’s shiny new Bayview Station. They were the folks displaced by a rooming-house fire on Lebreton Street North in the spring and...
View ArticleMan apologizes for random attack on woman in ByWard Market
Jackson Kitambala kept asking the woman outside the nightclub if she needed help, and when she said no, he insisted she needed it. Read More
View ArticleDisgraced former Ottawa priest skips sentencing, arrest warrant issued
Disgraced former Catholic priest Barry McGrory skipped his sentencing at the Ottawa courthouse Monday morning. Read More
View ArticleAccused serial rapist arrested, faces six more charges in Ottawa, Gatineau
Five months after Paul Batchelor won acquittals in two rape cases, the former insurance man is now facing six more counts of sexual assault involving six women in Ottawa and Gatineau. Read More
View ArticlePaul Batchelor accused of raping three women while previously on bail
Accused serial rapist Paul Batchelor, arrested this week in Ottawa, allegedly raped three women while he was out on bail awaiting trial for two other, unrelated sex assault cases. Read More
View ArticlePaul Batchelor: Accused serial rapist set to go on trial in 2020
Former insurance salesman Paul Batchelor, who won acquittals in two rape cases in June, is now scheduled to go on trial for six more counts of sexual assault in August 2020. Read More
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