Road Rage Robbery
A 25-year-old Elgin woman has been charged with assault and robbery allegedly stemming from a road rage incident.
On Thursday evening two drivers heading eastbound on Lyndhurst Road when one tried to pass the other and the latter responded by hitting lightly on his brakes, then a battle of high beams ensued.
Once both vehicles pulled over The female suspect assaulted the 21-year-old male victim, demanded money and made off with some cash.
The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Devan Meadows, 25, of Elgin, has been charged with robbery with violence and assault. She was released pending a June 5 court appearance.

Napanee – Death of An Infant
A Napanee woman was arrested in Banff, Alta. in connection to the death of an infant.
Officers of the Napanee OPP detachment responded to a call at a residence on Palace Road on Saturday where they stayed on guard until Monday Evening.
An infant was found dead at the scene and Following the investigation,  Napanee OPP crime unit charged Kirsten Pemberton, 23, with the criminal code offence of neglect to obtain assistance in child birth.
Pemberton was arrested with the assistance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police serious crimes branch in Banff and is being returned to Napanee to appear in Napanee court.

Military Mental Health – Grant
A $150,000 grant from the Health Research Foundation will hopefully help the mental Health of children in military families in the future.
Heidi Cramm, an assistant professor and researcher in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University, has received the grant where her teams research will focus on the mental health of children in military families and how mobility and deployment affect the families’ access to specialized health care.
Along with researching in Kingston, the team will be in Petawawa, Trenton and Halifax to study the Armed Forces, the Air Force and the Navy.
Ottawa- Sex Workers
A sex workers’ group says 11 women have been ordered deported after Ottawa police raided 20 massage parlours.
Power spokeswoman Frederique Chabot says the raids were done under the Human Trafficking Section.
But she questions why the woman are being deported instead of being offered immunity and support, if indeed human trafficking was involved.
Chabot says her group is happy to work with police as long as they are helping the people who are being exploited.  (1310News)

Child Porn-Trial – Toronto
A Toronto man accused in a sweeping child pornography investigation has been convicted on 15 of 16 charges.
Brian Way is now awaiting sentencing after yesterday’s verdict.
Way had pleaded guilty to seven charges but was contesting nine related to more than 170 films he sold online through a company called Azov Films.
Way was arrested in 2013 in a massive investigation that led to more than 300 arrests in Canada, the United States, Mexico and other countries.
(Toronto Star, The Canadian Press)

Ontario Teachers Strike
There’s a move by three Ontario school boards hit by strikes to have the job actions declared unlawful.
The Durham District School Board, east of Toronto, the Rainbow District School Board, in the Sudbury area, and the Peel District School Board, west of Toronto, are making the request in a joint application to the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
High school teachers at those boards have been on strike for weeks — affecting more than 70-thousand students — but the boards say central bargaining issues are involved, not local ones.
The Liberal government’s new bargaining system separates local and central negotiating, with issues such as money and class sizes to be discussed at the provincial table.
Rainbow District School Board chair Doreen Dewar says there are misconceptions that the board is trying to increase class sizes, limit prep time and freeze salaries and benefits at the local table, but those are central issues.  (The Canadian Press)

Ghomeshi Charged
While two sexual assault charges have been dropped against disgraced former C-B-C host Jian Ghomeshi, he still faces five charges of sexual assault and one count of choking.
The 47-year-old Ghomeshi was ordered to face the remaining charges in two separate trials set for February and June next year.
Crown prosecutor Mike Callaghan says the two sexual assault charges were being withdrawn because there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.
The one-time radio star has admitted to engaging in rough sex but said it was consensual and his lawyer has said he will plead not guilty to all charges.
(The Canadian Press)

Harper-Windsor
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in Windsor today for a roundtable discussion.
His office has released few details about his visit to the southwestern Ontario city.
But a media advisory says he’s to be joined by Public Works Minister Diane Finley and Essex M-P Jeff Watson at the roundtable discussion at a waterfront hotel.
(The Canadian Press)

Home Community Care
A new program being introduced today will give Ontario patients and family caregivers more control over the types of home and community care services they can access.
The Canadian Press has learned Health Minister Eric Hoskins will announce details of a self-directed funding program for patients needing care at home.
The “Bringing Care Home” program will kick off later this year with a series of pilot projects to work out details such as how the money will flow.
The goal is to give patients and their caregivers more flexibility and control over the care they receive by involving them more in the planning and co-ordination at the start.  (The Canadian Press)

US – Amtrak Crash
Daylight has revealed the destruction caused by last night’s Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia.
The entire train left the tracks as it was travelling from Washington D-C to New York, killing at least five people and sending 144 people to hospitals.
Philadelphia’s mayor says not everyone has been accounted for.
It’s not known what caused the derailment, but federal investigators are heading to the scene to try to find out why it happened.
The derailment has closed a major section of America’s busiest rail corridor.

Boston Bombing Trial
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s ultimate fate will soon be up to a jury which has a life or death decision to make.
The panel is expected to begin deliberating later today on the penalty phase of the trial after closing arguments from lawyers.
Jurors will decide whether Tsarnaev will be executed or spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2013 bombing at the finish line of the Boston race that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.