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ALTO — The Rusk Eagle baseball team has garnered 16 wins thus far this season on the diamond. Perhaps the Eagles' biggest victory took place Sunday afternoon in Alto where members of the Rusk baseball squad came to the aid of a teammates' family who were one of the many victims of the Saturday afternoon tornadoes that devastated several parts of the Alto community.
Several weeks of hard work for the Bearkats culminated Friday night at Bowers Stadium with the team’s annual spring game.
TYLER - The Brook Hill Lady Guard continued their tirade through TAPPS district action on Wednesday afternoon, exploding with 11 extra base hits, in a dominating 20-0 softball win over Bishop T.K. Gorman, at John Carney Field.
A Bearkat standout was among 72 women from around the globe that made history last week in Augusta, Georgia.
The Texas 10 Series is a sequence of 5 mile and 10 mile races held each year around the state. Our turn this year came on Sunday morning, March 31. You will remember that morning—it was cold! A front had blown in overnight and it was about 45 degrees at gun time, 7 a.m. Normally, by then on a spring morning, the birds would be in full song, but the front had put them into a stupor. We runners would be on our own.
Spring football involves a lot of work without much immediate payoff, but that doesn’t mean that the Bearkats’ rising seniors won’t miss it.
For the second consecutive Tuesday, the Bearkats fell in a hole early at home and never recovered.
In the first two games against UT Arlington, it was nip and tuck between the Mavericks and the Bearkats with each team beating each other once.
Coming off their worst loss in nearly a month, the Bearkats needed a jolt to get themselves out of a self-admitted slump — and that’s exactly what happened.
Jack Rogers has been recognized by the Southland Conference after playing an integral role in a bounce-back weekend for the Bearkats.
The Bearkats wrapped up a series sweep over Lamar just past 2 a.m. Sunday morning at Don Sanders Stadium.
A weird day got a little whackier in the late hours of Saturday night — and in a good way for the Bearkats.
Sam Houston State sophomore Brooke Malia blasted her fifth home run of the season to break a scoreless tie in the fifth to lead the Bearkats to a Southland Conference series sweep over Houston Baptist with an 8-0 victory in six innings at Bearkat Softball Complex on Saturday.
Cameron Delaney has used up his collegiate eligibility, but the Sam Houston State senior will represent the Southland Conference on the court for one more day.
The Bearkats have made some changes after tying their lowest win total in eight years last season.
What began as a car ride conversation between DFW-based trainer Montrel Duckett and former Aledo High School running back Johnathan Gray quickly turned into the beginnings of the pair’s new youth mentoring and athletic training program, Beyond the Ball.
The Bearkats will look to rebound at home this weekend following a midweek letdown against Rice on Tuesday.
Weatherford High School junior quarterback Ken Seals is headed to the SEC.
The Bearkats didn’t have enough offensive firepower to overcome their early pitching woes Tuesday night at Don Sanders Stadium.
The Bearkats are riding high following their fourth consecutive series victory to begin Southland Conference play, but their momentum will be challenged tonight.
Head coach K.C. Keeler is not holding back his excitement about the Bearkats’ backfield.
MINEOLA - After 80 minutes of regulation play and 20 minutes of overtime action, Friday's Class 5A, Region II bi-district match between Jacksonville and Sulphur Springs was still a scoreless tie.
The Huntsville community is coming together to honor four of its own, that died tragically in Bastrop County over the weekend.
The Bearkats blew a two-run, ninth-inning lead to McNeese for the second consecutive day, but this time, they bounced back to redeem themselves in extra innings.
The Bearkats’ secondary will have a slightly different look in 2019, and the group has no shortage of confidence about its potential.
Junior Megan McDonald’s triple in the top of the seventh inning secured a Southland Conference softball series victory for Sam Houston State as the Bearkats beat Nicholls on the road 4-3 Saturday.
The Bearkats have a chance to bolster their stronghold atop the Southland Conference as they return home.
The Bearkats missed out on several chances to boost their RPI earlier this year due to weather, and will look to make up for it toward the tail end of the season.
Ty Brock knew he needed to make changes following an up-and-down freshman campaign.
The Sam Houston State men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams will be traveling this week with select athletes participating at the Texas Relays in Austin and some competing at the Bobcat Invitational in San Marcos.
The Bearkats might have made school history, but they aren’t satisfied yet.
RUSK — Rusk launched its district campaign by shutting out Palestine 13-0 Friday night in Rusk.
FRISCO – Junior pitcher Hayden Wesneski has been named the Southland Conference Pitcher of the Week for the second time this season, per a release league by officials on Monday afternoon.
Several Bearkats have battled injuries throughout the start of spring practice, including arguably the team’s top returning playmaker on either side of the ball.
There is a new team atop the District 16-5A softball standings.
RUSK - Friday night began and ended on a positive note for the Rusk Baseball Eagles and their fans.
Following an emotional high Friday night, the Bearkats came back down to earth in the series finale.
A day that typically serves as a launch pad for NFL careers meant more than football for two Bearkats looking to take their game to the next level.
The Bearkats kicked off the weekend on a good note.
The Bearkats just keep on rolling.
Scouts and coaches from a half-dozen NFL teams converged upon Bowers Stadium, with a pair of Bearkats in the spotlight.
FORT WORTH — A historic season for the Bearkats came to a close Wednesday night on the road at Schollmaier Arena.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tim Tadlock and Chris Beard, two of Texas Tech’s most popular athletic figures, shared an enlightening moment earlier this month when detailing the stark contrast between the draft process in their respective sports.
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The Dallas Stars tried a different approach in goal and skated off with a win.
Mike Modano scored twice for his first multigoal game of the season and Dan Ellis made 25 saves in his NHL debut to lead the Dallas Stars to a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.
Ellis saw his first action since being recalled from Utah of the AHL on Feb. 9, snapping a streak of 31 consecutive starts by Marty Turco.
Modano had two goals within a 5:01 span of the second period to end a six-game scoreless stretch and complete a three-game road successfully.
Jere Lehtinen and Brenden Morrow also scored for the Stars, who won for the first time in four games (1-2-1) since the All-Star break. They moved past the Kings into sixth place in the Western Conference.
Luc Robitaille, Derek Armstrong and Sean Avery scored for the Kings, winless in five games.
After Robitaille put the Kings ahead 1-0 in the first period, Modano scored his first goal by blasting a slap shot past Roman Cechmanek from the right circle at 3:20 of the second.
Modano then came down the left wing and punched in a rebound of his own shot to give the Stars a 2-1 lead five minutes later.
``The puck seemed to have eyes there, it's good to get a little weight off your shoulder,'' said Modano, who had six multigoal games last season.
Lehtinen added a power-play goal to make it 3-1 before Armstrong cut into the lead with his 11th goal.
Morrow added a power-play goal in the third to secure the win.
Avery drew the Kings within 4-3 with 5:18 to play.
The American Lung Association says 125-million people live in areas of the country with unhealthy levels of air pollution.
The sky above Bakersfield, California may look beautiful, but the polluted air sends it and another west coast city, Los Angeles, to the top of the list of unhealthiest places to breathe in the U.S.
That's according to the latest "State of the Air" report from the American Lung Association.
Janice Nolen with the American Lung Association says, "This is our 18th annual report, so we've seen a lot of improvements. But we're also seeing some trends that are scary."
Some cities, mostly in California, Utah, and Nevada, are seeing spikes in particle pollution from wildfires, factories and vehicles.
Pollutants can cause severe asthma attacks, particularly in vulnerable children. And that's not all.
Janice Nolen says, "Particle pollution is especially risky for cardiovascular harm, like heart disease, stroke. It also is greatly risky for people with diabetes and it causes lung cancer."
On the other side of the country -- progress.
Cities with the cleanest air are nearly all on the east coast including Burlington, Vermont and Naples, Florida.
The only one out west? Honolulu, Hawaii.
Find out where your city ranks in the "State of the Air" report.
Gov. Eddie Calvo must end efforts to appeal a federal order requiring the GovGuam to pay tax refunds in a timely manner.
Gov. Eddie Calvo must end efforts to appeal a federal order requiring GovGuam to pay tax refunds within six months of the tax-filing deadline.
Attorneys representing the local government on Tuesday filed a writ of certiorari — a petition asking the Supreme Court to review the 2011 class-action lawsuit that resulted in the federal court order.
Since the federal injunction was imposed in January 2013, the administration has twice appealed the ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Calvo and his administration argued they don’t need the federal government to tell them when to pay tax refunds, and stressed the burden the injunction will have on GovGuam’s finances.
“In this case, the Ninth Circuit tied Guam’s hands by affirming an onerous injunction that required Guam to repay all taxes within six months of the filing of a refund claim,” the petition states.
The administration also has contended it shouldn’t pay the roughly $2 million in attorney fees to the plaintiffs of the case.
There’s a reason for the permanent injunction. For decades, the local government failed to pay tax refunds on time because it used refund money to pay for government operations. It required a class-action suit and the intervention of the federal court to force local elected officials to obey the law and pay refunds on time.
Yet, Calvo continues to fight the ruling. The administration should end its efforts to fight this and focus on ensuring the government of Guam continues to pay tax refunds in a timely manner.
(Reuters) - Tiger Woods, in his second round of competitive golf since returning from a chronic back injury that kept him out for almost 16 months, shot a flawless seven-under 65 at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Friday.
Fourteen-times major winner Woods, who teed off alone after partner Justin Rose of Britain pulled out of the 18-man tournament with a bad back, was three-under on the front nine and four-under on the homeward stretch.
After a rollercoaster opening round, Woods displayed the type of focus and form that once made him the dominant player of his generation in his second tour of the Albany course.
An eight-shot improvement from his opening 73 lifted Woods into a tie for ninth at six under, six shots back of co-leaders American Dustin Johnson (66) and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (67).
Only defending champion Bubba Watson (63) and Brandt Snedeker (64) had better rounds on another hot, humid day.
"It feels good. As I said yesterday I had it going through eight holes and lost it and finished over par," Woods told Golf Channel. "Today was different ... I played the middle part of the round better, turned it around and kept the momentum going and I moved myself up the board."
Woods got off to a bright start rolling in a four-footer for a birdie on his opening hole then reeled off four straight pars before he birdied the sixth for the second consecutive day.
With another birdie at nine Woods entered the turn at three-under, the same as he did in the first round before his game unravelled.
But this time Woods held firm on the back nine picking up birdies at 11, 12, 14 and 15 but it was a 25-foot putt to save par at 16 that was the highlight of the round prompting a mighty fist pump from the former world number one.
"To not drop a shot, to not lose the momentum that was a biggie," said Woods, host of the unofficial PGA Tour event.
A municipal prosecutor who is a member of a noted police family did prosecute a traffic court case against a former Gloucester police chief, despite having declared a conflict in the matter, the Citizen has learned.
The Citizen first reported that the city prosecution officer was “reviewing” the handling of a Jan. 25 traffic court hearing after prosecutor Terry Callaghan declared a conflict in prosecuting former Gloucester police chief Lester Thompson but is alleged by police sources to have encouraged Const. William Cantin — the officer who ticketed Thompson — to leave traffic court before he could provide any evidence on the matter.
Lester Thompson was charged with careless driving after a motor vehicle collision in September of 2015. On Jan. 25 he was accompanied to court by his daughter, who is a lawyer and also the wife of Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau. Lynda Bordeleau works as a police prosecutor and as general legal counsel for Peel Regional Police.
She prosecutes officers for misconduct under the Police Services Act, but is also a partner at private practice Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall.
David Migicovsky, the head of the litigation department at Lynda Bordeleau’s private firm, told the Citizen that she attended the hearing not as counsel but “to assist her father in seeing if the matter could be resolved.” Migicovsky maintained that there was no conflict of interest for Lynda Bordeleau to be present at the hearing.
According to Migicovsky, Terry Callaghan saw Lynda Bordeleau and her father outside the court area. Callaghan then “immediately” told Bordeleau that she (Callaghan) had to recuse herself and that she would direct Bordeleau to another provincial prosecutor, Migicovsky said.
That prosecutor, Marc Legault, met with Lynda Bordeleau and Lester Thompson and Legault agreed that Thompson could plead to a lesser offence.
A court transcript obtained by the Citizen reveals that although Callaghan earlier declared a conflict and another prosecutor was assigned the case, it was she herself who spoke to the matter in traffic court in front of Justice of the Peace Louise Logue.
Callaghan asks the court’s permission to specifically address Thompson’s matter on the docket. She receives it.
“This is a matter I was going to resolve but the witness is not here so I’m going to ask — suggest that the Defendant plead not guilty as I have no evidence to offer,” Callaghan says.
The court transcript does not indicate whether the witness was a civilian, as the prosecution’s office and Migicovsky have told the Citizen.
Without the civilian witness, who Migicovsky said was the driver of other car involved in the collision, the only person who could have presented evidence against Thompson was Cantin, the ticketing officer who had already been dismissed because of a plea deal in the works.
Thompson states his name for the record and then enter his plea of “not guilty” after his charge is read aloud.
“There’s no evidence?” Logue asks. “No evidence,” Callaghan replies. “So the charge will be dismissed,” Logue says.
Callaghan is the wife of a former Ottawa police officer, the mother of two new recruits to the force, and sister of a former Ottawa police deputy chief. Officers across the Ottawa police force allege that dismissal of the charge against Thompson was orchestrated.
It’s now clear that the “review” was only prompted after the Citizen put the allegations to the parties involved in the matter.

ALTO — The Rusk Eagle baseball team has garnered 16 wins thus far this season on the diamond. Perhaps the Eagles' biggest victory took place Sunday afternoon in Alto where members of the Rusk baseball squad came to the aid of a teammates' family who were one of the many victims of the Saturday afternoon tornadoes that devastated several parts of the Alto community.

Several weeks of hard work for the Bearkats culminated Friday night at Bowers Stadium with the team’s annual spring game.

TYLER - The Brook Hill Lady Guard continued their tirade through TAPPS district action on Wednesday afternoon, exploding with 11 extra base hits, in a dominating 20-0 softball win over Bishop T.K. Gorman, at John Carney Field.

A Bearkat standout was among 72 women from around the globe that made history last week in Augusta, Georgia.

The Texas 10 Series is a sequence of 5 mile and 10 mile races held each year around the state. Our turn this year came on Sunday morning, March 31. You will remember that morning—it was cold! A front had blown in overnight and it was about 45 degrees at gun time, 7 a.m. Normally, by then on a spring morning, the birds would be in full song, but the front had put them into a stupor. We runners would be on our own.

Spring football involves a lot of work without much immediate payoff, but that doesn’t mean that the Bearkats’ rising seniors won’t miss it.

For the second consecutive Tuesday, the Bearkats fell in a hole early at home and never recovered.

In the first two games against UT Arlington, it was nip and tuck between the Mavericks and the Bearkats with each team beating each other once.

Coming off their worst loss in nearly a month, the Bearkats needed a jolt to get themselves out of a self-admitted slump — and that’s exactly what happened.

Jack Rogers has been recognized by the Southland Conference after playing an integral role in a bounce-back weekend for the Bearkats.

The Bearkats wrapped up a series sweep over Lamar just past 2 a.m. Sunday morning at Don Sanders Stadium.

A weird day got a little whackier in the late hours of Saturday night — and in a good way for the Bearkats.

Sam Houston State sophomore Brooke Malia blasted her fifth home run of the season to break a scoreless tie in the fifth to lead the Bearkats to a Southland Conference series sweep over Houston Baptist with an 8-0 victory in six innings at Bearkat Softball Complex on Saturday.

Cameron Delaney has used up his collegiate eligibility, but the Sam Houston State senior will represent the Southland Conference on the court for one more day.

The Bearkats have made some changes after tying their lowest win total in eight years last season.

What began as a car ride conversation between DFW-based trainer Montrel Duckett and former Aledo High School running back Johnathan Gray quickly turned into the beginnings of the pair’s new youth mentoring and athletic training program, Beyond the Ball.

The Bearkats will look to rebound at home this weekend following a midweek letdown against Rice on Tuesday.

Weatherford High School junior quarterback Ken Seals is headed to the SEC.

The Bearkats didn’t have enough offensive firepower to overcome their early pitching woes Tuesday night at Don Sanders Stadium.

The Bearkats are riding high following their fourth consecutive series victory to begin Southland Conference play, but their momentum will be challenged tonight.

Head coach K.C. Keeler is not holding back his excitement about the Bearkats’ backfield.

MINEOLA - After 80 minutes of regulation play and 20 minutes of overtime action, Friday's Class 5A, Region II bi-district match between Jacksonville and Sulphur Springs was still a scoreless tie.

The Huntsville community is coming together to honor four of its own, that died tragically in Bastrop County over the weekend.

The Bearkats blew a two-run, ninth-inning lead to McNeese for the second consecutive day, but this time, they bounced back to redeem themselves in extra innings.

The Bearkats’ secondary will have a slightly different look in 2019, and the group has no shortage of confidence about its potential.

Junior Megan McDonald’s triple in the top of the seventh inning secured a Southland Conference softball series victory for Sam Houston State as the Bearkats beat Nicholls on the road 4-3 Saturday.

The Bearkats have a chance to bolster their stronghold atop the Southland Conference as they return home.

The Bearkats missed out on several chances to boost their RPI earlier this year due to weather, and will look to make up for it toward the tail end of the season.

Ty Brock knew he needed to make changes following an up-and-down freshman campaign.

The Sam Houston State men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams will be traveling this week with select athletes participating at the Texas Relays in Austin and some competing at the Bobcat Invitational in San Marcos.

The Bearkats might have made school history, but they aren’t satisfied yet.

RUSK — Rusk launched its district campaign by shutting out Palestine 13-0 Friday night in Rusk.

FRISCO – Junior pitcher Hayden Wesneski has been named the Southland Conference Pitcher of the Week for the second time this season, per a release league by officials on Monday afternoon.

Several Bearkats have battled injuries throughout the start of spring practice, including arguably the team’s top returning playmaker on either side of the ball.

There is a new team atop the District 16-5A softball standings.

RUSK - Friday night began and ended on a positive note for the Rusk Baseball Eagles and their fans.

Following an emotional high Friday night, the Bearkats came back down to earth in the series finale.

A day that typically serves as a launch pad for NFL careers meant more than football for two Bearkats looking to take their game to the next level.

The Bearkats kicked off the weekend on a good note.

The Bearkats just keep on rolling.

Scouts and coaches from a half-dozen NFL teams converged upon Bowers Stadium, with a pair of Bearkats in the spotlight.

FORT WORTH — A historic season for the Bearkats came to a close Wednesday night on the road at Schollmaier Arena.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tim Tadlock and Chris Beard, two of Texas Tech’s most popular athletic figures, shared an enlightening moment earlier this month when detailing the stark contrast between the draft process in their respective sports.

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The Dallas Stars tried a different approach in goal and skated off with a win.

Mike Modano scored twice for his first multigoal game of the season and Dan Ellis made 25 saves in his NHL debut to lead the Dallas Stars to a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.

Ellis saw his first action since being recalled from Utah of the AHL on Feb. 9, snapping a streak of 31 consecutive starts by Marty Turco.

Modano had two goals within a 5:01 span of the second period to end a six-game scoreless stretch and complete a three-game road successfully.

Jere Lehtinen and Brenden Morrow also scored for the Stars, who won for the first time in four games (1-2-1) since the All-Star break. They moved past the Kings into sixth place in the Western Conference.

Luc Robitaille, Derek Armstrong and Sean Avery scored for the Kings, winless in five games.

After Robitaille put the Kings ahead 1-0 in the first period, Modano scored his first goal by blasting a slap shot past Roman Cechmanek from the right circle at 3:20 of the second.

Modano then came down the left wing and punched in a rebound of his own shot to give the Stars a 2-1 lead five minutes later.

``The puck seemed to have eyes there, it's good to get a little weight off your shoulder,'' said Modano, who had six multigoal games last season.

Lehtinen added a power-play goal to make it 3-1 before Armstrong cut into the lead with his 11th goal.

Morrow added a power-play goal in the third to secure the win.

Avery drew the Kings within 4-3 with 5:18 to play.

The American Lung Association says 125-million people live in areas of the country with unhealthy levels of air pollution.

The sky above Bakersfield, California may look beautiful, but the polluted air sends it and another west coast city, Los Angeles, to the top of the list of unhealthiest places to breathe in the U.S.

That's according to the latest "State of the Air" report from the American Lung Association.

Janice Nolen with the American Lung Association says, "This is our 18th annual report, so we've seen a lot of improvements. But we're also seeing some trends that are scary."

Some cities, mostly in California, Utah, and Nevada, are seeing spikes in particle pollution from wildfires, factories and vehicles.

Pollutants can cause severe asthma attacks, particularly in vulnerable children. And that's not all.

Janice Nolen says, "Particle pollution is especially risky for cardiovascular harm, like heart disease, stroke. It also is greatly risky for people with diabetes and it causes lung cancer."

On the other side of the country -- progress.

Cities with the cleanest air are nearly all on the east coast including Burlington, Vermont and Naples, Florida.

The only one out west? Honolulu, Hawaii.

Find out where your city ranks in the "State of the Air" report.

Gov. Eddie Calvo must end efforts to appeal a federal order requiring the GovGuam to pay tax refunds in a timely manner.

Gov. Eddie Calvo must end efforts to appeal a federal order requiring GovGuam to pay tax refunds within six months of the tax-filing deadline.

Attorneys representing the local government on Tuesday filed a writ of certiorari — a petition asking the Supreme Court to review the 2011 class-action lawsuit that resulted in the federal court order.

Since the federal injunction was imposed in January 2013, the administration has twice appealed the ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Calvo and his administration argued they don’t need the federal government to tell them when to pay tax refunds, and stressed the burden the injunction will have on GovGuam’s finances.

“In this case, the Ninth Circuit tied Guam’s hands by affirming an onerous injunction that required Guam to repay all taxes within six months of the filing of a refund claim,” the petition states.

The administration also has contended it shouldn’t pay the roughly $2 million in attorney fees to the plaintiffs of the case.

There’s a reason for the permanent injunction. For decades, the local government failed to pay tax refunds on time because it used refund money to pay for government operations. It required a class-action suit and the intervention of the federal court to force local elected officials to obey the law and pay refunds on time.

Yet, Calvo continues to fight the ruling. The administration should end its efforts to fight this and focus on ensuring the government of Guam continues to pay tax refunds in a timely manner.

(Reuters) - Tiger Woods, in his second round of competitive golf since returning from a chronic back injury that kept him out for almost 16 months, shot a flawless seven-under 65 at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Friday.

Fourteen-times major winner Woods, who teed off alone after partner Justin Rose of Britain pulled out of the 18-man tournament with a bad back, was three-under on the front nine and four-under on the homeward stretch.

After a rollercoaster opening round, Woods displayed the type of focus and form that once made him the dominant player of his generation in his second tour of the Albany course.

An eight-shot improvement from his opening 73 lifted Woods into a tie for ninth at six under, six shots back of co-leaders American Dustin Johnson (66) and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (67).

Only defending champion Bubba Watson (63) and Brandt Snedeker (64) had better rounds on another hot, humid day.

"It feels good. As I said yesterday I had it going through eight holes and lost it and finished over par," Woods told Golf Channel. "Today was different ... I played the middle part of the round better, turned it around and kept the momentum going and I moved myself up the board."

Woods got off to a bright start rolling in a four-footer for a birdie on his opening hole then reeled off four straight pars before he birdied the sixth for the second consecutive day.

With another birdie at nine Woods entered the turn at three-under, the same as he did in the first round before his game unravelled.

But this time Woods held firm on the back nine picking up birdies at 11, 12, 14 and 15 but it was a 25-foot putt to save par at 16 that was the highlight of the round prompting a mighty fist pump from the former world number one.

"To not drop a shot, to not lose the momentum that was a biggie," said Woods, host of the unofficial PGA Tour event.

A municipal prosecutor who is a member of a noted police family did prosecute a traffic court case against a former Gloucester police chief, despite having declared a conflict in the matter, the Citizen has learned.

The Citizen first reported that the city prosecution officer was “reviewing” the handling of a Jan. 25 traffic court hearing after prosecutor Terry Callaghan declared a conflict in prosecuting former Gloucester police chief Lester Thompson but is alleged by police sources to have encouraged Const. William Cantin — the officer who ticketed Thompson — to leave traffic court before he could provide any evidence on the matter.

Lester Thompson was charged with careless driving after a motor vehicle collision in September of 2015. On Jan. 25 he was accompanied to court by his daughter, who is a lawyer and also the wife of Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau. Lynda Bordeleau works as a police prosecutor and as general legal counsel for Peel Regional Police.

She prosecutes officers for misconduct under the Police Services Act, but is also a partner at private practice Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall.

David Migicovsky, the head of the litigation department at Lynda Bordeleau’s private firm, told the Citizen that she attended the hearing not as counsel but “to assist her father in seeing if the matter could be resolved.” Migicovsky maintained that there was no conflict of interest for Lynda Bordeleau to be present at the hearing.

According to Migicovsky, Terry Callaghan saw Lynda Bordeleau and her father outside the court area. Callaghan then “immediately” told Bordeleau that she (Callaghan) had to recuse herself and that she would direct Bordeleau to another provincial prosecutor, Migicovsky said.

That prosecutor, Marc Legault, met with Lynda Bordeleau and Lester Thompson and Legault agreed that Thompson could plead to a lesser offence.

A court transcript obtained by the Citizen reveals that although Callaghan earlier declared a conflict and another prosecutor was assigned the case, it was she herself who spoke to the matter in traffic court in front of Justice of the Peace Louise Logue.

Callaghan asks the court’s permission to specifically address Thompson’s matter on the docket. She receives it.

“This is a matter I was going to resolve but the witness is not here so I’m going to ask — suggest that the Defendant plead not guilty as I have no evidence to offer,” Callaghan says.

The court transcript does not indicate whether the witness was a civilian, as the prosecution’s office and Migicovsky have told the Citizen.

Without the civilian witness, who Migicovsky said was the driver of other car involved in the collision, the only person who could have presented evidence against Thompson was Cantin, the ticketing officer who had already been dismissed because of a plea deal in the works.

Thompson states his name for the record and then enter his plea of “not guilty” after his charge is read aloud.

“There’s no evidence?” Logue asks. “No evidence,” Callaghan replies. “So the charge will be dismissed,” Logue says.

Callaghan is the wife of a former Ottawa police officer, the mother of two new recruits to the force, and sister of a former Ottawa police deputy chief. Officers across the Ottawa police force allege that dismissal of the charge against Thompson was orchestrated.

It’s now clear that the “review” was only prompted after the Citizen put the allegations to the parties involved in the matter.