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Chatham-Kent police are asking for the public's help to identify a suspect after someone wrote a "vulgar comment" on the Cenotaph in Chatham, a Wallaceburg man has been charged with drug trafficking after a vehicle crashed into a ditch in Lakeshore, and the first ever Mike Currie Memorial Run was a record-setter.

Crime prevention in Wallaceburg and a review of Chatham-Kent's ATV bylaw are both up for discussion at tonight's Chatham-Kent council meeting and the trial of Nathaniel Veltman starts in a Windsor courtroom this morning with opening statements from the Crown and the defence.

Tax breaks are on the table for several new developments across Chatham-Kent, A planned power outage is taking place in Blenheim on Monday, Two men were arrested for driving impaired this weekend, and research from Western University is the first to show that birds adjust their physiology during the migratory seasons.

Two new tenants could move into the Bloomfield Business Park just southwest of Chatham. The Tilbury Memorial Park now has a wheelchair-accessible swing, and a Tilbury man was airlifted to a hospital after a serious crash.

Single-vehicle crash sends Tilbury man to hospital in Windsor with severe injuries, investigators in London probing the death of two people in a west-end apartment, the average price of homes in Chatham-Kent saw a slight increase in August, and the country's unemployment rate held steady at five and a half per cent last month.

It looks like home sales in Chatham-Kent could be stabilizing a bit, a 36-year-old Chatham man is facing a trio of charges after he was allegedly seen smoking a suspected controlled substance inside a rental truck in a parking lot in Chatham, and recent polls show growing support for the Conservative Party as it gathers in Quebec City for a three-day policy convention.

Chatham-Kent's new top public health doctor says plans are underway for the fall vaccine rollouts, wait times for surgeries at Windsor Regional Hospital have been chopped by 40 percent from last spring, and the search for a London man who went missing while swimming in Lake Erie last week is over now.

Chatham-Kent police are investigating a crash just outside of Pain Court that left a cyclist in critical condition, a 38-year-old Chatham-Kent man is facing a handful of charges after Chatham-Kent police allegedly caught him with his hands full of some stolen packages, and an off-duty OPP officer is recovering from an assault last night at the Nature Fresh Farms Recreation Centre in Leamington.

The cause is going down as undetermined after a fire in Chatham yesterday that pumped out a lot of dark smoke, a Sarnia man who killed a Chatham man by stabbing him in the chest two years ago won't serve any more jail time, and the Nathaniel Veltman trial is set to go ahead in Windsor on Monday.