St Thomas News

Looking for relatives of Robert Allen McCully from Irvinestown, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

A single-vehicle crash west of St. Thomas, Ont., has taken the life of a teenager and left two other teens in hospital.

DEAR ROBIN: I hope you receive this call for help/advice. I am 21 years young, and I am slightly depressed.

Before it was formed in 2004, people questioned the wisdom of the Ontario government creating the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat, another bureaucratic layer within its ever-expanding education ministry.

Mild weather and sunny skies don't often bring to mind thoughts of the Christmas season.

I f we've learned anything in the 20 years since Marc Lepine massacred 14 female engineering students in Montreal, it's that violence doesn't happen out of the blue.

Two days before the new TVRAA South basketball season tipped off, East Elgin coach Dave Arnett said he and his Eagles were OK with being an underdog.

DEAR ROBIN: I really hate being told what to do, and I can't stand it anymore. My boyfriend is such a jerk sometimes ... but no, the problem is me.

DEAR READERS: I have been receiving letters from people wanting to share their experiences with me, some a direct result of the advice I have given, and others with experiences similar to either the problem or the outcome of letters I receive.

He's ornery, cantankerous and occasionally downright obnoxious. Yesterday, bless him, he turned out to be an HST Braveheart.

The Conservative government recently took a small step in the war against child pornography, an odious and rapidly growing menace that should scare the heck out of parents everywhere.

Attention Will Ferrell, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and fellow A-listers: Your number may be up.

A Port Stanley fishery has been fined a total of $16,000 for overfishing walleye, yellow perch and white bass last year.

A visit from the winless Dunnville Terriers was all the doctor ordered to jump-start the Aylmer Spitfires as the home team pounded its opponent 7-2 Saturday night in Niagara and District Junior C hockey action.

When Justin Martin's family went looking for something they could do together on weekends, they found that speed suited them just fine.

The Liberal Party of Canada is in pathetic shape and they can blame themselves. Even in the aftermath of the John Turner years, the Liberal machine itself was still strong.

A Dutton-area man, charged after his brother-in-law went missing in a creek in an ATV mishap on Christmas Eve in 2007, has been fined $1,000 for drunk driving and banned from operating vehicles for a year.

A farm-related accident claimed the life Saturday of a 34-year-old Dutton tractor collector.

A St. Thomas shipbuilder says it will be able to retain employees and, possibly, recall laid-off workers after winning a $360,000 contract to build two hydrographic survey launches for Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

On Tuesday, with the sun shining and the morning chill gradually burning away, I took a drive to the eastern reaches of Brampton where the golf club of the same name is laid out, green and inviting.