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• Sudbury speed demon clocked going 234/km hour in a 100km/h zone

  21-09-2026 23:41 via thesudburystar.com
  
  A young Sudbury man was clocked travelling 234 km/h in a posted 100km/h zone on Highway 11 in Trout Creek Monday around 9:50 a.m.The North Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police charged the driver with stunt driving after exceeding the speed limit by 134 km/h.A member of the North Bay OPP was conducting traffic enforcement on Highway 11 in the Powassan area using a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) speed-measuring device, according to OPP.The officer saw a southbound vehicle travelli
  
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• Election act charges hanging over Greater Sudbury councillor

  21-09-2026 22:39 via thesudburystar.com
  
  If Bill Leduc is re-elected as Ward 11 councillor on Oct. 26, he could still be facing nine charges under Ontario’s Municipal Elections Act related to the 2022 municipal election, and perhaps questions about whether he should have been eligible to run in the first place.The charges were scheduled to be addressed Monday in provincial offences court in Azilda, but the matter was adjourned following two developments.First, Leduc’s lawyer, Alexandra Logvin, is no longer representing him
  
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• Judge unhappy with how Sudbury prosecutors have handled sex assault cases

  21-09-2026 20:11 via thesudburystar.com
  
  A Sudbury judge has criticized local prosecutors for how they have handled the case of a city man accused of forcing two girls into sex and for threatening to kill a courthouse security officer.Dalton Bals wants to contest parts of a plea agreement in the case, but his application has been delayed in part because the Sudbury’s Crown’s office has failed to provide Ontario Court Justice Leonard Kim with all the documents related to the matter.Justice Kim is also concerned that six ass
  
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• One impaired driver going too fast, another going too slow

  21-09-2026 19:18 via thesudburystar.com
  
  Getting caught speeding has translated into a $1,000 fine and a one-year licence suspension for a Sudbury man who was driving drunk.“You should know by now the dangers of drinking and driving, but you pleaded guilty, saved court time and a trial,” Ontario Court Justice Vincenzo Rondinelli told Hunter Alarie as he accepted a joint sentencing submission in Sudbury court.Alarie, 28, had pleaded guilty to impaired driving.The court heard through an agreed statement of facts that about 4
  
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