Canada

Twenty years have passed since the bizarre disappearance of a well known investment banker and his wife in Vancouver.

Chatham-Kent OPP say a driver has been charged with racing a motor vehicle after the minivan he was driving was clocked at 71 km/h over the limit.

A man accused of killing three police officers in June in Moncton, New Brunswick, has pleaded guilty to all charges. Justin Bourque, 24, was arrested after a two-night manhunt following the deadly shootings.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man wanted in connection to the double homicide of two men and the attempted murder of a woman inside a Chilliwack home on Aug. 7.

A Langley dog walker has been charged with animal cruelty after six dogs allegedly died of heat exhaustion last May while in her care.

Three people from Minnesota died when a small Cessna aircraft crashed on a lake south of Kenora.

Butterscotch, the Brandon cat with a bird feeder stuck on his head, has been caught and is no longer wearing the bird feeder that has been stuck on his head for about the last two weeks.

A 40-year-old Bradford man has been charged after an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s was struck and killed on Highway 400 in Vaughan early Thursday. The suspect turned himself in and his vehicle was seized, the OPP said.

Provincial police say a man is dead after a CN freight train struck a passenger vehicle at a crossing just west of Trenton. Firefighters at the scene had to extricate at least one victim from inside the vehicle, which was crushed into the front of the train’s lead locomotive in the crash at about 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Two workers were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure and emergency and fire services closed a section of road in east end St. John’s after an industrial chemical spill.

Essex County OPP are charging six people with drunk driving related offenses, making the arrests over the long weekend. In one case on Sunday, a car hit a home on Bruce Ave. in Leamington after skidding onto the front lawn. No one was hurt.