A prisoner accused of a shootout with cops last winter broke free of jail guards yesterday with help from armed accomplices during a trip to the hospital.

(Nov 25, 2009) - Last May, after months of rehabilitation from a life-threatening traffic collision, Haydain Neale decided he was well enough to return to the recording studio. It was time to make another Jacksoul record.

(Nov 25, 2009) - A foreign caregiver brought to Canada with a job offer from a "ghost employer" has been awarded $10,000 in damages in what is believed to be the first-ever court victory against a nanny recruiter.

(Nov 25, 2009) - There have been just six escapes from custody from provincial facilities in Ontario in the past five years, according to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

(Nov 25, 2009) - City council has postponed a decision about Hamilton's controversial tax system to allow for a year-long public consultation process.

(Nov 25, 2009) - Lori Hill was coming into work at about 11 a.m. yesterday when she saw two young men standing on the sidewalk, near the front entrance of Hamilton General Hospital, wearing surgical masks. She found it curious, but believed they were just paranoid about H1N1.

(Nov 25, 2009) - A government lawyer drew an audible groan in court yesterday when he accused Caledonia resident David Brown of deliberately "agitating" a group of native protesters by videotaping them as they aimed a spotlight on his house in the middle of the night.

(Nov 25, 2009) - Joan Nelson remembers the boy who sat waiting with his mother at the Welcome Inn food bank.

(Nov 25, 2009) - A collision early yesterday morning in Brampton has claimed the life of a Hamilton man.

(Nov 25, 2009) - Mohawk College is planning to move its Brantford campus to the Brantford Expositor building, a downtown landmark and home to the newspaper for the past 114 years.

(Nov 25, 2009) - Police have turned to YouTube again for help in solving another crime.

(Nov 25, 2009) - Hydro officials say brazen thieves caused an electricity outage for 6,000 Horizon Utilities customers after they stole valuable copper wire from a transformer station on Burlington Street.

ANCASTER (Nov 25, 2009) - Vera Lee-Chin, estranged wife of billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin, is scaling back plans for a 15,000-square-foot house the Niagara Escarpment Commission ruled too big for the environmentally sensitive Dundas Valley.

(Nov 25, 2009) - Hamilton police hate crime investigators are probing an incident in which a copy of a freelance Spectator column was defaced with racist insults and taped to a Settlement and Immigration Services Organization (SISO) van.

Juno-award-winning musician Sarah Harmer will be guest speaker at BurlingtonGreen’s first eco-awards ceremony Thursday night.

Fluorescing red tracer dye in the Grand this week will test the vulnerability of municipal drinking water supplies to a spill in the river.

Police are investigating a possible hate crime against a Spectator freelance columnist.

TORONTO - Jacksoul frontman Haydain Neale was remembered as an "amazing individual" and a "joyful presence" as stunned colleagues learned of his death from cancer on Monday.

(Nov 24, 2009) - It was a flicker in the peripheral vision of many. For one mother, it was a moment that will never be forgotten.

(Nov 24, 2009) - Hamilton's Sports Hall of Fame, which launched yesterday as an online entity, is a prime candidate for physical space at the city's Pan Am stadium, said some supporters.