Quantcast
Channel: The StarPhoenix - RSS Feed
Browsing all 1550 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Mike Arcand found not guilty of attempted murder, but guilty of assault with...

A shot fired at a police officer during a daytime shootout in downtown Saskatoon was a reckless attempt at preventing an arrest, but wasn’t meant to kill the officer, a Queen’s Bench judge has...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Robert Major appeals guilty verdicts in crash that killed his sons and...

Two weeks after a Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench jury found him guilty of 12 driving-related offences for a crash that killed his two sons and girlfriend, Robert Major is appealing his convictions....

View Article


Northwoods Inn owner John Pontes gets probation for groping female tenant's...

A Saskatoon motel owner who groped a female tenant’s breasts has received a suspended sentence of 18 months’ probation. The Crown argued John Viveiros Pontes, 75, should spend 90 days in jail, followed...

View Article

Repeat speeder fined $1,450 for dangerous driving on Sask. highway

Speeding home for his court-mandated curfew, Muhammad Hamza Amin got slapped with another charge: dangerous driving. The 26-year-old was clocked going 180 kilometres per hour on Highway 41 near...

View Article

Man who shot himself in leg during carjacking gets five years

The loaded, sawed-off shotgun Marty Chamakese used to force another man to drive him to Battleford was the same gun he accidentally discharged, shooting himself in the leg. Chamakese, 31, had just...

View Article


Man says he's 'so ashamed' of assaulting 11-month old child while drunk

Left alone for three days with two children and limited food, Andrew Paul Chatsis snapped — and hit an 11-month old boy. When the boy’s mother returned home on April 5, 2018, she said the baby was...

View Article

Charge upgraded to first-degree murder in death of Saskatoon mother Tammy Brown

Blake Jeffrey Schreiner is now charged with first-degree murder in connection with Saskatoon’s first homicide of 2019. Schreiner was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of his...

View Article

Abdul Jat convicted of using fake Facebook profile to lure, 'sextort' teen girl

Abdul Rehman Jat tricked a teen girl into sending him nude photos, threatened to send the photos to her friends and family if she didn’t have sex with him and took no steps to determine her age, a...

View Article


Amber Alert sentencing: Johnathan Gunville gets two years less a day for...

NORTH BATTLEFORD — A repeat offender with a history of dangerously driving stolen vehicles has avoided a penitentiary sentence, but will serve his longest jail sentence after prompting an Amber Alert...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Crown appeals woman's acquittal of first-degree murder, kidnapping in death...

The Attorney General of Saskatchewan has appealed the acquittal of a 20-year-old woman on charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping after she fatally stabbed Patrick Dong when she was 17 years old....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Crown seeks 10 years, judge gives six in fatal Sask. drunk driving rollover

The Crown’s desired 10-year sentence for a man convicted in a fatal Saskatchewan drunk driving rollover is pushing the limits of sentencing, according to a Saskatoon provincial court judge. Those...

View Article

One of three men charged with manslaughter in fentanyl overdose case remains...

The Crown has consented to the continued release of a British Columbia man who was re-arrested on new manslaughter charges in connection with four fatal fentanyl overdoses in Saskatoon last year. Azam...

View Article

Man accused of murdering spouse sent for not criminally responsible assessment

A Saskatoon provincial court judge has ordered a not criminally responsible (NCR) assessment for Blake Jeffrey Schreiner, the 37-year-old man accused of killing his spouse earlier this year. Tammy...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Man who threatened 'execution' in University of Sask. bowl was off bi-polar meds

A 24-year-old man likely wouldn’t have threatened to kill his former employer, the premier of Saskatchewan or Saudi leaders in the University of Saskatchewan bowl if he’d been taking medication for his...

View Article

Plan to have threesome with 11-year-old girl and her mom not just 'fantasy...

Warning: graphic content When he told a woman he met on Craigslist that he wanted to be sexual with her and her 11-year-old daughter, he was partaking in what he believed was the woman’s “fantasy role...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

‘He has tortured me beyond belief’: Warman couple lost majority of life...

Tina and Ben Bueckert stand next to 14 files outlining the fraud that drained them of most of their life savings. On Jan. 31, David Matthew Adrian, 64, pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 and was...

View Article

Brandin Brick committed to stand trial on first-degree murder charge

Following a preliminary hearing in Saskatoon provincial court this week, Brandin Cole Brick has been committed to stand trial in connection with the death of 28-year-old James Chaisson. Chaisson was...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

'He was a good boy': Family of homicide victim Mark Enwaya say he was shot...

Family members of Saskatoon’s latest homicide victim, 31-year-old Mark Enwaya, are confused, distraught and devastated. Enwaya was found dead in an alley behind Avenue Q South last Tuesday night. He’d...

View Article

Attempted rape of elderly woman during random home invasion warrants...

Warning: graphic content When an elderly woman, alone in her ground-floor apartment, awoke to a strange man trying to rape her in bed, she fought until she could escape and call police. The 78-year-old...

View Article

Prince Albert man admits causing head-on collision that killed two men

The last thing Clarence Guenter remembers seeing before a life-altering collision in October 2016 was the headlights of an oncoming vehicle. The 72-year-old spent the next four months in hospital...

View Article
Browsing all 1550 articles
Browse latest View live