Woodstock News

With summer here, those words conjure up fear -- the thought of leaving pre-teens and teens unsupervised during long work days has some parents shaking in their office chairs.

Summer is here, which means there are hundreds of young people who are looking for jobs in Tillsonburg.

A 19-year-old Innerkip man was sentenced to 90 days house arrest for a series of charges relating to his attempt to take a cellphone picture of a woman in a tanning bed.

In the eighth day of their strike, these Power Workers Union members are walking a quiet line between Bell and Victoria streets.

It may seem like an odd place to hang out. But both adult motorcyclists and teenage bicyclists have turned to the parking lots of neglected Woodstock buildings to connect with their friends and even get some exercise.

All hail George Smitherman -- standing up for the taxpayers of Ontario by trying to screw the taxpayers of Canada.

They call it MDS or multiple dachshund syndrome. "We're seriously addicted to dachshunds," Natasha Clayton said of her four wiener dogs.

The recent announcement of the Quick 32 Sportsman Series presented by NAPA Auto Parts has Schippling very excited.

Michael Jackson, the record-breaking, sensationally gifted "King of Pop" who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world's most disturbing celebrity, has died.

A cluster of First Nations communities continue to be hit hard with the H1N1 virus and remain victims of finger-pointing between the feds and some provincial health ministries.

Elliot Ferguson photo/Sun MediaBella Cook, 2, dumps a bucket of water on her aunt Cara Bruins Tuesday afternoon at the Vansittart Avenue spray pad.

Power workers union members were on the picket line Monday morning, the first day of strike action against ERTH Corporation over benefits, wages and other contract terms.

Faith United Church's two facilities will no longer be designated as heritage buildings.

The rules for street demos are different in Iran. Even in the most oppressive states, the rulers know that outbursts of popular anger should be contained with as little violence as possible, but elsewhere the authorities always see deadly force as the final resort.

A massive fire ripped through a barn on Culloden Line near McBeth Road on Tuesday afternoon.

Stopped by the Oxford OPP in the early morning hours of Saturday and Sunday, the four drivers were found by officers to have been drinking and were among the first in the county to have their licences suspended under the new legislation.

Rodney Stafford has worn through two pairs of running shoes since his eight-year-old daughter disappeared two months ago.

One of the two people accused in the abduction and killing of eight-year-old Victoria Stafford is scheduled to make a court appearance Friday.

Standing motionless in the prisoner's box, Amy Gilbert-Cassidy replied with a quiet "guilty" when asked Monday for her plea on being an accessory to the 2008 murder of a 26-year-old city man.

A woman accused of being an accessory after human remains were found in the backyard of a Woodstock, Ont., home has pleaded guilty.