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The three-day hearing for a Thunder Bay Police Service officer charged with misconduct will begin Wednesday. Sgt. James Mauro faces two counts of misconduct under the Police Services Act. He was suspended from duty on March 26, 2010.

A settlement has been reached in a haircutting incident that grabbed national headlines nearly three years ago. An education assistant cut the hair of a First Nations boy at McKellar Park School in April 2009.

Fear of falling glass has forced the city’s hand and will see the Centennial Botanical Conservatory closed immediately for up to two months.

City police officers believe an abduction at a Greyhound bus terminal appears to be a case of a drug deal involving magic mushrooms gone bad.

The city will spend $690,000 a year to run the waterfront until private development comes in.

Andre Wareham told a murder trial jury that when he saw Bill Atkins collapse on the stairs he screamed that he wished he had left him alone. The second week of the Wareham trial started at the Thunder Bay Superior Court of Justice on Monday.

Thunder Bay-Superior North is 90,000 square-kilometres and consists of 31 townships and municipalities, along with another nine First Nations; it takes NDP MP Bruce Hyer three weeks to tour the riding he represents.

A suspect fleeing from police in an alleged stolen car has landed a 15-year-old in jail facing several charges. Thunder Bay Police Services spokeswoman Julie Tilbury said the incident began Saturday morning around 9 a.m.

Thunder Bay Police this past weekend were on an all-out blitz to keep booze out of the hands of minors.

A Thunder Bay business has been fined $27,000 for illegally constructing an airstrip on Crown land, reports Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources.