A 13-year-old boy has died in a London hospital from injuries in an ATV crash last week. Perth County OPP said Trent Streicher, of North Perth, died Tuesday from injuries suffered in the June 30 crash that also sent his 11-year-old sister to hospital.

Fire crews and police are at the scene of an apparent house fire on Kimberley Avenue, London police said. Kimberley Avenue is in the Pond Mills area of southeast London.

A London hospital building at 392 South St. was evacuated early last night after smoke was found in a transformer room. About 30 people were forced to leave the building. An electrician doing a routine check discovered the situation about 6 p.m., platoon chief Paul Carew said.

The Ontario legislature wants to hear what you think about the province's health care tax. Well, sort of. Because no matter what you tell a legislative committee looking for public comment about it, the tax stays put.

London doctors are seeing more adult diseases turning up in kids, part of the same obesity trend that prompted U.S. health officials this week to recommend cholesterol-lowering drugs for children.

Lindsay Allen is polite and petite. She says she weighs 100 pounds; I figure that must be if she's wearing big boots, is soaking wet and has a pile of loonies in every pocket.

Ontario's Environment Ministry has thumbed its bureaucratic nose at east Londoners afraid of PCBs buried at the former Westinghouse plant, community activists say.

City officials have yet to scratch the surface of what went wrong with London's Springbank Dam. While city engineers know broken bolts disabled one of four gates on the $6.7-million dam, experts hired to examine the bolts are late in coming to a conclusion.

SIMCOE -- Aging rocker David Lee Roth was pulled over for speeding recently during a nut allergy attack. But the Van Halen frontman was at no risk of driving into a PR problem, partly because the police don't release bulletins about helping people during medical emergencies.

An old pest has made new forays into the London area, plaguing trees and forests already under threat from development and other invasive critters. Three gypsy moth infestations -- the biggest influx of the black, hairy caterpillars in a decade -- have London's top tree man "concerned."

A deal is within reach with inside workers at London city hall that would avert a strike. City officials yesterday dropped a demand the union withdraw key grievances.

Shell Canada has pulled the plug on what would have been the first new oil refinery in North America in decades.

SARNIA — Shell has abandoned plans for a multibillion-dollar heavy oil refinery near Sarnia. The oil company told its staff Tuesday to stop pre-development and engineering work.

A deal is within reach with inside workers at city hall that would avert a strike and end protracted negotiations, civic leader said today. City officials said today they will make a counter-offer to the union that removes their contentious request to drop three grievances.

Investigators probe threats over porn on N. Africa TV PARIS (AP) — Anti-terrorism investigators in Paris are probing threats against a leading French cable TV channel over pornographic films it airs that can be viewed in North Africa, a judicial official said Tuesday.

The driver of a truck that killed a 42-year-old Seaforth woman and seriously injured her one-year-old child is now charged with dangerous driving causing death.

A 30-year-old St. Thomas man has died of injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash near Port Bruce.

The Ontario legislature wants to hear what you think about the health-care tax. Well, sort of. Because no matter what you tell a legislative committee looking for public comment about it, the tax stays put.

When a tonne of freshly- felled tree crashed on her recently renovated home last week, Deborah Carr felt as if lightning had struck twice. "I came home from work to find the whole blinking tree had toppled on to the renovations," the Londoner said yesterday. "It had put a hole in my new bathroom.

An exchange agreement signed yesterday will boost dental research in both Brazil and Canada, the secretary- general of Brazil's largest university says.