Police are looking for a suspicious man who falsely portrayed himself as a Bell MTS employee to try to enter a woman’s home. The incident happened Thursday night near Plessis Road and Pandora Avenue. Police say the man – described as around 35 years old and 5’4″, wearing an MTS jacket – knocked on the door and told the homeowner, […]

A Peterborough woman has been arrested and charged after police say an elderly family member was defrauded out of more than $3,000. On Nov. 8, police received information regarding a possible fraud. Police allege that between July and October, the accused defrauded an elderly family member of approximately $3,770 by accessing the family member’s savings account. On Thursday, officers arrested the woman […]

Reflective year-in-review videos make us cry no matter how predictable they are, but what’s interesting about Google’s newly released Year in Search video is that it demonstrates how unpredictable 2018 really was. Though it’s worth watching in its entirety, the video features many triumphs, including the box-office success and cultural importance of Crazy Rich Asians, the hopeful outcome of the […]

The deal to lure Amazon to New York is turning out to be far less of a win than Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio expected. That was painfully clear at Wednesday’s City Council hearing, where scores of protesters screamed, “G-T-F-O! Amazon has got to go!” and unfurled a ginormous “No To Amazon” banner. Lawmakers blasted bits of the deal: […]

‘Posh gentleman’ driver who told mechanics he’d crashed into a pothole had in fact been driving around with traffic sign stuck under his car for five days The customer had reportedly brought the vehicle into a garage in Edinburgh  Motor vehicle technicians discovered 3.5ft traffic sign wedged under Ford Fiesta Colleagues Andy Dixon, 40, and Kevin Melrose, 33, say damage will […]

Sarah Papenheim, 21, who studied at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, was found dead on Wednesday. A 23-year-old Dutch man who police say is known to the victim has been arrested. He is believed to live in the same building as Sarah, according to her distraught family. Heartbreaking tributes have poured in for the Minnesota-born psychology student – who was a […]

The body of Grace, 22, from Essex, was formally identified yesterday after she went missing from a hostel in Auckland on December 1. It is currently illegal to reveal the 26-year-old suspect’s name due to a temporary suppression order which is in place as he awaits trial. But the search giant sent out a mass email to subscribers in New […]

American Media Inc., which paid $150,000 to silence former Playboy model Karen McDougal about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, almost got its money back — but then asked that the agreement with Michael Cohen be ripped up. An agreement to hand off the rights to Cohen, the then-“fixer” for Trump, was drawn up and signed by AMI chief David […]

Friday, Dec. 14: Hour 1: Burns & Allen – George Gets Gracie a Gift; Father Knows Best – Dad’s Christmas PresentHour 2: Campbell Playhouse – A Christmas CarolHour 3: Aldrich Family – Selling Christmas Cards; Daymon Runyan Theater – Dancing Dan’s ChristmasHour 4: Orson Welles – Christmas Show; Jack Benny – Christmas Shopping in New York Saturday, Dec. 15: Hour […]

Prabhu Ramamoorthy of Rochester Hills, Mich., was convicted of sexual assault. (Wayne County Sheriff’s Office) DETROIT – An Indian man living in the U.S. on a work visa was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman during an overnight flight to Detroit. Prabhu Ramamoorthy was in a middle seat between the victim and his […]