1+ week, 4+ day ago (407+ words) Fluffy trio make for picture-purrfect passengers in back of squad car. Officers with Norfolk County OPP rescued a trio of kittens that were abandoned on a roadway in the rural county earlier this week." A litter of kittens abandoned in Norfolk County this week came within a whisker of using up their nine lives all at once. Instead, the fluffy trio found wandering on the road in the rural municipality were safely taken into police custody. "Earlier this week, Norfolk OPP responded to a traffic hazard and discovered a litter of kittens left in the roadway," Const. Andrew Gamble said Friday on social media. "Thankfully, they quickly made themselves comfortable in the back of an officer's cruiser." Though the kittens were safely rescued with the help of a kind soul who called 911, the apparent case of animal cruelty nonetheless gave…...

17+ hour, 45+ min ago (479+ words) Loud boom" heard from Walsh business led to smoke filling upstairs apartment. Norfolk County firefighters knocked down a fire inside a hobby shop in Walsh on Monday. The first warning a group of Norfolk County residents had that something was amiss was a loud boom" coming from inside the shop below their apartment in the village of Walsh. Then the apartment started to fill with smoke. The residents grabbed their pets and spilled outside around 9:20 p.m. on Monday to find what fire officials described as heavy smoke" billowing from the ground-floor business, a former autobody shop turned hobby shop for electronic bikes and carts. More than two dozen firefighters converged on the hobby shop, using a tanker shuttle to bring water to the rural location. Fire crews were able to bring the blaze under control quickly, preventing the fire from causing…...