Alison Langley

Richard Symes, 80, has been found guilty of attempting to murder a 48-year-old woman he shot in the face at “point blank” range as she sat in her car in March 2024 after he shot at another man in a dispute over recyclable waste.

Did she steal the bike? That was the question 12 teams of high school students had to decide during a mock trial exercise held over two days at Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines.

A sentencing hearing for a 33-year-old Welland man who pleaded guilty to multiple offences including child luring and extortion was held in Ontario Court of Justices in St. Catharines on Monday.

A Fort Erie man, 40, received an eight-year penitentiary sentence after he pleaded guilty to sex-related charges involving his stepdaughter.

A former Robert Land Academy teacher will be sentenced for sex-related crimes involving minors.

A 45-year old man appeared in an Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to several charges including possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking and possession of a prohibited weapon.

Man pleads guilty to a charge of theft over $5,000 received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation for two years.

A man has pleaded guilty to several copper thefts in Welland.

A 32-year-old woman is to be sentenced later this month on drug and weapons offences as a result of a police investigation that also included a search of a St. Catharines residence.

A convicted drug dealer from Thorold who was on probation when he was nabbed with more than $90,000 in drugs has been sentenced to seven years behind bars.