WHITBY — It was such a busy year for Jim Flaherty that by Christmas Eve he still had some shopping left to do.
The local member of Parliament made headlines throughout the year.
He came…
Archive for December, 2008
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…
