Edessa

A former mayor and an official accused of breach of trust in relation to a 4-million euro deficit in his municipality's coffers has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment but released pending appeal.

The deficit occurred in the municipality of Edessa, in Central Macedonia, from 2001 and 2010.

Police in the northern city of Edessa are investigating a traffic crash in which five people lost their lives.

The accident occurred at approximately 5.50 p.m. when a car carrying five people collided head-on with a truck.

Firefighters rushed to the scene to remove the passengers from the car.

Police in northern Greece say they found seven migrants — four of them children — hidden in a furniture truck whose driver allegedly had been paid to take them from Turkey to Germany.
The police force in Thessaloniki said the people on the truck were from Syria and Iraq, and the driver allegedly received 1,500 euros ($1,700) for each of the seven passengers.

A prosecutor in the northern town of Edessa has ordered a 67-year-old man to stand trial on charges of sexually abusing his mentally challenged 44-year-old daughter.

The suspect was arrested on Monday on an arrest warrant that was issued after a complaint was filed by his wife, the mother of the victim.

At the protest, far-right leaders, Greek diaspora groups and clerics called against any UN-sponsored compromise name for their northern neighbor that would include the term "Macedonia".

A 45 year old cafe owner woman of Albanian decent in the city of Edessa, northern Greece is facing charges of soliciting, after police discovered her 25-year old waitress was also offering sexual services to customers apart from serving them coffee… The police were alerted to the illicit activities in the cafe shop and caught the waitress ‘red handed’ in a back room when they busted

The change in weather that had been expected since Friday has arrived, bringing with it a cold spell around the country and an increase in winds. Polar temperatures are expected to reach -12 degrees in central Macedonia and wind velocity will climb to 9 on the Beaufort scale in areas around the Aegean.

Trainotaxi services are coming to Athens following their successful application in the cities of Thessaloniki, Volos, Xanthi, Larisa, Katerini and Edessa. The pilot program in Athens will be implemented with thehelp of Kosmos 18300 that responded to the tender.

The European Court of Justice on Monday heralded a new fine against Greece for violation of European regulations, noting that the country has failed to enforce a six-year-old ruling ordering it to “adequately treat and dispose of urban wastewater.”