The lawyer for a man accused in the mass shooting at a Texas military base last Thursday that left 13 dead said the attention given to the incident will make it difficult for his client to get a fair trial in a military court.
A 17-year-old boy from Coral Harbour who was rescued from an ice floe in the mouth of Hudson Bay is being treated, along with his uncle, for hypothermia.
Napanee OPP are investigating the theft of a large quantity of tools from a construction trailer.. The trailer was parked at a construction site on Glennelm Road north of Napanee on the weekend. The value of the stolen tools is believed to be approximately 10,000 dollars. Anyone with information in relation to the theft is [...]
The Health Unit responsible for Lennox and Addington County has had to temporarily cancel all of its H-1-N-1 vaccination clinics. The Kingston-based Board of Health, which has run out of the vaccine, decided yesterday to suspend its clinics immediately until it gets more.. The Medical Officer of Health, Doctor Ian Gemmill, hopes the issue will be resolved [. […]
Classes have been in for over two months now, but Quinte West O-P-P say some motorists aren’t driving very carefully near schools in the city. Police have seen an increase in recent weeks in the number of complaints about drivers not stopping for crossing guards helping children in the cross walks. The fine for ignoring a crossing guard is [...] […]
An elementary school teacher in Brighton agrees completely with a study about how educators damage their voices. Deb Saint Amant of Spring Valley Public School has needed physical therapy and a wireless amplifier to rescue her career because she loses her voice four or five times a year. The deputy director of the National Center [...]
As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It's radioactive. And they have yet to say how they'll deal with it.The information comes from New York's Department of Environmental Conservation , which […]
Stellar explosions known as type Ia supernovae have proved invaluable to astrophysicists as markers of cosmic distance. Their brightness and consistency in observed properties allow astronomers to use them as "standard candles" to determine distances to objects in the sky. Just a decade ago type Ia supernovae took center stage when researchers harn […]