Kingston Corporal – Drug Charges
A Canadian Forces corporal based in Kingston and a woman from eastern Ontario have been charged with the sale and distribution of controlled substances after a traffic stop on Hwy. 401 last month.
The stop was made near Kingston in early April and resulted in the seizure of a quantity of suspected methamphetamine pills, cocaine, marijuana, cash and drug paraphernalia.
The driver of the car, 23 yr old Cpl. Lucas Stewart, and passenger 19 year old Chelsey Romans, were charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking (three counts) and possession of property obtained by crime.
They were released and scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Kingston on May 21.

University Hospitals Kingston Foundation – Boost
The University Hospitals Kingston Foundation just got a huge boost to their  upcoming campaign, and it was from one of their own!
Shortly after being named the next campaign chair for the Foundation, Susan Creasy the local financial adviser committed $100,000 of her own money over the next five years to the foundation’s next initiative.
Creasy hopes to put the fund towards three places: the MRI project at KGH and the two capital campaign projects at Hotel Dieu and Providence Care through the upcoming initiative due to be launched in the fall.

Belleville – Police Charge
A Belleville police constable is facing an assault charge.
Eric Shorey was charged by Brockville police, who were asked to help with the investigation following allegations of a domestic incident in Belleville last December.
Shorey has been released from custody and will return to court on June 22nd.
Shorey, who has been a member of the Belleville Police Service since 2007, has been suspended from all duties with pay.
Ontario – Teachers Strike
As Ontario’s public elementary school teachers began a work-to-rule campaign yesterday , their union says newly resumed talks with the province have already collapsed.
Union President Sam Hammond says both sides returned to the bargaining table at the mediator’s request yesterday.
He says the teachers expected the government to drop certain concessions but when that didn’t happen, the union walked away from the bargaining table.
The elementary teachers’ job action comes as more than 70-thousand high school students are out of class because of strikes in Durham Region, Peel Region and the Sudbury area. (The Canadian Press)

Ontario PC Brown
The new leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party says he’ll resign his seat in the House of Commons tomorrow.
Patrick Brown, who beat deputy party leader Christine Elliott to win the leadership on the weekend, won’t have any income once he resigns his seat as M-P for Barrie, north of Toronto.
He hasn’t yet said how and when he plans to secure a seat in the Ontario legislature.

 CFRA – Anchor
Funeral arrangements are being made for an Ottawa radio anchor.
C-F-R-A says Lauren Davis — the daughter of longtime Toronto radio host Erin Davis — died unexpectedly at 24.
The radio station says Davis and her husband had an infant son — Colin, born last year. The cause of death has not been made public.

Boston Bombing Trial
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers have rested their case in their effort to save him from execution.
Well-known death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean  testified yesterday at his sentencing that Tsarnaev expressed genuine sorrow for the victims in the 2013 attack, which left three people dead and more than 260 wounded.
Closing arguments will be made tomorrow, and a decision on punishment will then be in the hands of a federal jury.

Nepal Earthquake
At least 42 people are dead and more than 11-hundred people have been injured by another major earthquake in Nepal.
The 7.3-magnitude quake triggered landslides and caused buildings to collapse.
It appears the mountainous districts to the northeast of Kathmandu were the hardest hit, including the town of Chautara.
It became a hub for humanitarian aid after the April 25th earthquake that killed more than eight-thousand people.