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• Sault woman gets house arrest for fraud

  17-06-2026 21:59 via saultstar.com
  
  The former head of a Sault Ste. Marie-based courier company has 10 years to pay back more than $500,000 she bilked from her employer. Lorraine Lariviere was also sentenced to house arrest for two years less a day by Ontario Court Justice John Condon on Wednesday. She pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 in July 2025. Lariviere stole nearly $560,000 from Eazy Express between 2020 and 2024. The theft of cash hobbled the business started by the late Ted Brooks in 1988. She must stay at her home for
  
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• The Sault Star spoke to Chicago’s Walter Parazaider in 2010

  17-06-2026 21:23 via saultstar.com
  
  The Sault Star’s Jeffrey Ougler had a pre-show interview with Chicago founding member Walter Parazaider prior to the band’s May 2010 Kewadin Casino concert. Parazaider told Ougler how he felt sidelined when the band shifted from rock and jazz fusion to saccharin-laced 1980s ballads. He stuck it out, though, and at 65 was still blowing his horn as loudly and proudly as ever. This story appeared in the May 21, 2010 edition of The Sault Star. WalterParazaider toyed with taking his horn
  
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• ‘Repression’ remains: Deal to end war in Iran does not impress Hajar Shavandi

  17-06-2026 19:43 via saultstar.com
  
  Iran receiving broad financial incentives as part of a pact to end the war launched by the United States and Israel is not receiving rich reviews from an Iranian-born woman studying nursing in Sault Ste. Marie. Hajar Shavandi says that according to her, and many Iranians she knows both inside Iran and throughout the diaspora, this agreement is not viewed as a “meaningful” step toward peace. “Many fear that leaving unresolved what has already caused so much suffering will only
  
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• Children escape injury in Spanish bus crash

  17-06-2026 19:14 via saultstar.com
  
  School bus hitA transport rear-ended a school bus that stopped on Highway 17 in Spanish with its lights flashing on Wednesday morning.None of the 26 students on board were hurt, Ontario Provincial Police say. The drivers of the two vehicles were also not injured. The collision happened shortly after 8 a.m. Charges are pending.
  
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• Trustees OK $209M budget for Algoma District School Board

  17-06-2026 15:36 via saultstar.com
  
  Algoma District School Board drew from its reserves to balance its 2026-27 budget.The English public board plans to spend $209,010,248 in the coming year.About $600,000 was taken from ADSB’s accumulated surplus to balance the books, said associate director of corporate services and operations Joe Santa Maria. The board still has slightly more than $20 million in its reserves. The budget, passed by trustees at a meeting on Tuesday evening, is based on student enrolment of about 10,200. San
  
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• Officer describes injuries to accused months before Caitlin Jennings's killing

  17-06-2026 03:27 via saultstar.com
  
  Caitlin Jennings and David Yates were on the ground in the front door threshold of a Kingsway Avenue home when London police officers arrived to investigate a possible assault.It was March 28, 2023, just shy of three months before Jennings would be found beaten to death inside Yates’ northwest London home. That day, officers were responding to an urgent 911 call from a man reporting he had been bitten and stabbed.Jennings came outside and tried to close the door when police arrived. One o
  
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