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The acts of “stark horror” committed by a city man on a cat and dog should land him up to a three-year prison term, a prosecutor said Monday. In December 2014, 19-year-old Nicolino Camardi entered a guilty plea to two counts of causing unnecessary pain to animals in connection to the January 2014 deaths of a Siberian husky and a …

Hundreds of snakes that were rescued last month after their hibernation den was disturbed by construction have now been returned to the wild. Buckets of the slithering serpents were released Sunday to an area near the shores of Boundary Bay in Delta.

After her dog Isabella went missing three months ago, owner Natasha Chabun and some local volunteers rallied together last Friday to bring the missing pooch back home. Chabun said she’s never felt happier than when she held her beloved dog in her arms again.

RCMP say a woman escaped alive, but the man she was driving with died when their pickup truck ended up submerged in a deep and icy creek Saturday night.

A 17-year-old boy is dead after an overnight shooting at an apartment complex in Etobicoke. The shooting happened at 44 Willowridge Road near Martin Grove Road and Eglinton Avenue West around 2 a.m., Toronto Paramedic Services said.

A fatal crash on Highway 401 at Markham Road has claimed the life of a man in his 20’s. The vehicle was heading westbound on the highway at the time of the collision.

Two officers have been seriously wounded and one civilian is dead following a violent incident in Mississauga on Friday night. Police spokesman Constable George Tudos said one officer was shot and the other was stabbed. He described their conditions as serious.

A TTC driver turned himself in to Toronto police Friday morning and he is now facing charges in connection with the hit-and-run death of a Scarborough teen late last year.

A section of Eglinton Avenue — from Keele to Glenhaven streets — will be closed throughout the weekend while crews work to secure a tunnel on the Eglinton LRT construction site.

A 70-year-old Calgary cab driver has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run that left a 16-year-old girl dead. Stanislaw Maguder is now facing charges of hit-and-run causing death after a woman was found dead at the intersection of 16 Avenue NE and 5 Street NE.

Two motorists are facing dangerous driving charges related to an alleged street race last December that demolished a 2007 Lamborghini Murcielago. Adam Shtay, 27, from Edmonton, and Joshua Dally, 31, from Surrey, has each been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while street racing.