The local member of Parliament made headlines throughout the year.
He came...
Archive for December, 2008
WHITBY -- It was such a busy year for Jim Flaherty that by Christmas Eve he still had some shopping left to do.
OSHAWA -- To call General Motors the newsmaker of the year would be an understatement.
This year Canada's motor city became the national poster child for floundering manufacturing and auto...
DURHAM -- Go jump in the lake!
That's what two Durham groups -- one in Clarington, one in Scugog -- hope area residents will do to ring in the new year.
The Clarington Polar Bear Swim is set...
WHITBY -- Two people are facing charges after reports of a fire at a Whitby home led to the discovery of a marijuana grow operation.
Officers attended the Winchester Road home to assist...
OSHAWA -- Several suspects are being sought after two street-level robberies in central Oshawa Saturday night during which victims were threatened with a handgun.
No one was hurt in the robberies...
OSHAWA -- A man busted for a vicious attack on an Oshawa cab driver has been linked to a convenience store robbery in which a pregnant woman was repeatedly punched in the face.
Durham cops have...
Santa fund wraps up
Dec 30
DURHAM -- As families finish wrapping up gifts and to-do lists, the Ajax-Pickering News Advertiser Santa Fund is doing the same.
The Santa Fund delivered about 600 gift boxes to Ajax and...
CANNINGTON -- Three suspects are being sought in the gunpoint robbery of a north Durham convenience store Saturday.
Three men, one of them armed with a shotgun, robbed a Cannington convenience...
UXBRIDGE -- While North America is facing hardships due to an economic downturn, a recent trip to his homeland showed an Uxbridge resident first-hand how difficult life can really get.
Ahmad (Shah...
UXBRIDGE -- An Uxbridge teenager killed in a crash Saturday morning was a friendly soul "who talked to anybody and everybody," said her mother.
Colleen Garry, 17, died from injuries...
