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Parents Take Lie-Detector Tests In Daughter’s Disappearance
Eight-year-old Victoria Stafford has been missing for a week. She did not come home from school on Wednesday April 8 and hasn’t been seen since.
Dog Beach ban debated today
Toronto council is debating today what to do about dogs on the city’s beaches.
McGuinty won’t force ski helmets
Premier Dalton McGuinty says he doesn’t believe that the government should
mandate the use of ski helmets for children.
Bullied teen taken from Peel school
A Mississauga teen who is the victim of bullies at her high school said yesterday she’s happy her story came to light in the Sunday Sun but even happier she didn’t have to go back to school.
Another TTC shooting
The hunt is on for two armed and dangerous men after yet another incident of gunplay on the TTC, this time involving a 17-year-old boy who was shot and pistol-whipped as up to a dozen terrified commuters watched in horror on a bus in the city’s west end.
Toronto Police say the violent altercation unfolded shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday when the southbound bus stopped on Oakwood Ave., just south of Vaughan Rd., at Ashbury Ave.
Party became rape, trial told
A woman and her closest friend — once an Argo cheerleader — drank heavily while they partied with Argos linemen Bernard “Bennie” Williams and Jonathan Brown, court heard yesterday.
Man with HIV guilty in sex case
An HIV-positive Etobicoke man was found guilty yesterday of attempted aggravated sexual assault endangering life by having unprotected sex during a rape of his former lover.
Murdered man’s family ‘angry, sad’
Family and friends of George Koutroubis were left angry and puzzled by the murder of the popular Toronto restaurateur and reputed sports bookie.
City Hall staff eyed for fraud
Toronto Police’s fraud squad is investigating allegations that nine civic employees used phony benefit claims to bilk the city’s insurance provider.
Ticket fixers ‘disciplined’
City employees who take advantage of the system and fix parking may be disciplined — but it’s all done behind closed doors.
