SARNIA -- Katie Abbott is getting a second chance at Olympic glory. The 21-year-old Sarnia woman and her two teammates just missed qualifying for the Beijing games following an equipment failure during their first sailing race together in February.

Don't expect all the secrets from Bob Probert. Not yet, anyway. "Some day I'll write a tell-all," the former National Hockey League enforcer said in London yesterday. "Well, maybe a 95-per-cent tell all," he added with a grin.

A $1-million gift from an anonymous donor will help to launch a community drive to finish Victoria Hospital's north tower, health foundation officials say.

The babies of Hollywood stars will soon be bathing in a tub designed and sold by a mom-preneur from London. Brandy Cameron designed Spa Baby, a bathtub that lets infants sit up as they bathe.

Ontario property taxpayers are picking up the tab for companies that create tonnes of garbage through excessive unrecyclable packaging. "I tell my kids, if you make a mess you pick it up," said Pat Vanini, executive director of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.

Tests results on a dead crow found in southwest Sarnia have confirmed West Nile virus is in the region. The positive test is the first for Lambton County in 2008.

London city hall is risking a strike by a sudden and last-minute attack on human rights and the collective agreement of its inside workers, their union charged yesterday.

Thousands of London boys and girls from low-income families are depending on the milk of human kindness to provide them with extra nutrition this summer.

This year's Sunfest lived up to its name with cloudless skies and balmy temperatures drawing thousands to the free annual London festival.

Londoners have been given a week-long reprieve from a strike at city hall. Negotiators for the city and inside workers agreed early Saturday morning to extend the deadline for a deal to July 12.

PROFILE: Hart has been a member of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation since the mid-1990s. He recently won its national Breath of Life award for volunteer of the year, which goes to someone who doesn't have family ties to the disorder.

Five cyclists on a cross-Canada fundraising tour got a hero's welcome as they pedalled into London yesterday. Flanked by a police and fire truck entourage, the Moving Muscles Bike Tour made its way down Wonderland Road after a 125-kilometre ride from Goderich.

KITCHENER -- Police are now treating the death of a 28-year-old woman found in a Kitchener motel room as a homicide. Waterloo police and paramedics found the body of Nicole Smits in a room at the Kitchener Motel last Saturday.

SARNIA -- Charges won't be laid in last month's crash of an ocean freighter into the Shell fuel dock near Corunna. Transport Canada has finished looking into the June 20 crash involving the 730-foot CSL Spruceglen.

One of Canada's most acclaimed anesthesia programs wished congratulations and good luck to one of its largest graduating classes last Tuesday at the annual resident farewell dinner at the Hunt Club.

SARNIA -- Sarnia-Lambton residents are up to twice as likely as other Ontarians to seek hospital emergency service for chronic disease, says a new report.

The bedroom ceiling broke two years ago. The kitchen ceiling caved in under a flood of toilet water. The mouse droppings began raining down on the counter last April.

Neither rain, sleet, snow, hail nor four years could stop police from solving the mysterious Thorndale post office break-in. All it took was some science, a little patience and a chance bit of evidence left at the crime scene on a coffee cup.

A Middlesex group is tackling the rural doctor shortage with an unusual way of staffing a medical clinic to be built in Ilderton. The clinic's medical staff will be bolstered by interns who are finishing their training at the University of Western Ontario's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.

After years of hardship, this could finally be a "Cinderella" season for area crop producers, a local expert says. The biggest winter wheat crop in Ontario's history will start to come off the fields in the next week.