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The OPP say the public plays a critical role in preventing impaired driving as increased holiday enforcement continues. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested and charged 34 impaired drivers during the fourth week of their Festive RIDE campaign, bringing the total number of arrests to 101 across eastern Ontario. In
Read MoreThe preliminary hearing of the case against Sebastian Johnston, who is charged with murder in the death of Kevin Camilleri, has been adjourned following a week of intense testimony. The Honourable Justice Alison J. Wheeler presided over Courtroom 1 at the Kingston Ontario Court of Justice in the MacDonald-Cartier Building
Read MoreThe newly merged South East Health Unit’s Board of Health recently held its first meeting since its vote to amalgamate on January 1, 2025, and there was much business to attend to. The new board met on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in the Kingston Main Office at 221 Portsmouth Avenue
Read MoreCharges have been laid in connection with the fatal boating collision that took place on the Victoria Day weekend on Bobs Lake. Three people died as a result of injuries sustained in the collision, which took place on the evening of May 18, 2024, according to a release from the
Read MoreA man charged with murder in Sharbot Lake last fall appeared in court Monday, Jun. 3, 2024, and it appears there is enough evidence against him to go to trial. Justice of the Peace Shawn Borgford presided over Kingston’s Ontario Court of Justice, where Sebastian Johnston made a video appearance
Read MoreSebastian Johnston made a video appearance in Justice of the Peace Ruth Campbell’s Kingston bail court on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 23, 2024. The 24-year-old accused murderer, who is being held at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario, was sullen and mumbled a few words during the video appearance. He sported
Read MoreA Central Frontenac man accused of murder appeared in Kingston bail court this afternoon, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Sebastian Johnston, 29, made his appearance in Justice of the Peace Jack Chiang’s bail court via video from the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario, where he is currently incarcerated. Johnston
Read MoreRandy Hillier’s application to have his convictions set aside and deemed unconstitutional was denied, but that didn’t stop him from vowing to “kill this evil monster the legal system.” In a video on Hillier’s X (formerly Twitter) account on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, the controversial former Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MPP appears to
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