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  Amid the Sault’s family doctor shortage, 8 Group Health Centre MDs receive awards

  The Ontario College of Family Physicians has presented awards to 750 doctors based on comments from patients, including eight physicians who are part of the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie.

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  Two teens charged with setting July fire in northwestern Ont. that did $500K in damage

  Two teens, ages 14 and 19, have been charged with arson in connection with a July 14 fire in Cat Lake First Nation that destroyed $500,000 in construction materials.

• Here's what the jury didn't hear in Jacob Hoggard's sexual assault trial

  A northeastern Ontario jury has started deliberating in Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard's sexual assault trial, we can now tell you what they weren't allowed to hear.

• Proof that cleared police of Thunder Bay man's throat injury comes out in the end

  A suspect who accused Thunder Bay police of being responsible for his throat injury actually hurt himself when he swallowed a large amount of drugs.

• Fines totalling $9,500 for hunting bear in northern Ont. near a garbage dump, other offences

  An outfitter in Kenora, Ont., and two individuals have been fined a total of $9,500 for bear hunting offences, including abandoning a bear they shot and using it as bait to hunt another bear.

• Two more teens charged with 'extensive damage' at Elliot Lake arena

  Two more Elliot Lake teens have been charged in connection to the break-in at the local arena last week and are accused of causing more than $50,000 in damage.

• Northwestern Ont. woman charged with arson with disregard for human life

  A 30-year-old northwestern Ontario woman has been charged with arson following a structure fire Thursday night, police say.

• Jury begins deliberations in Jacob Hoggard's sexual assault trial

  The jury tasked with determining if Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard sexually assaulted a young woman in northeastern Ontario eight years ago began deliberating Friday after nearly two weeks of testimony that saw the singer and his accuser give starkly different accounts of what happened.

• Sault murder suspect allowed out of prisoner's box to sit next to lawyer

  A man charged with first-degree murder in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., doesn't have to sit in the prisoner's box when his trial begins next month, a judge with the Superior Court of Justice has ruled.

• Sudbury police lay 16 charges in off-road vehicle safety blitz

  After receiving complaints about off-road vehicles, police in Greater Sudbury laid more than a dozen charges in a recent safety blitz.

• Sault police now equipped with cameras in their cruisers

  Aiming to bolster public trust and accountability – and help with investigations -- police in Sault Ste. Marie have equipped their vehicles with cameras.

• Hoggard sex assault trial: Defence says woman is lying, Crown says she is 'unshaken'

  Defence lawyers for Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard attacked the credibility of his accuser Thursday as they made their final pitch to jurors in the singer's sexual assault trial, suggesting the woman lied about the encounter to cover up her infidelity and changed details of her account over time.