Ted Flemming says a complete prescription and catastrophic drug program is scheduled to be in place before the next election in September 2014.

But the Opposition says politics is playing a role in the timing of the program’s release.

Liberal health critic Donald Arseneault says the government is holding the program back in order to buy votes in the provincial election.

Flemming says time is needed to make sure the program, which he describes as comprehensive, is right.

Police say the posted speed limit on Highway 19 near Campbell River is 110 kilometres per hour.

RCMP Const. John Anderson says the 25-year-old man behind the wheel of the black sports car apparently wanted to see how fast the car could go.

He says because the driver was caught going double the posted limit, he’ll have to pay a fine of $483.

Police say windy conditions and heavy traffic added to the danger on the road.

Three nights of NBA finals with Miami facing San Antonio were the top programs in prime time. They helped ABC, the network that aired them, to win the week overall, according to the Nielsen Co.

Sunday’s game was the week’s most-watched show, seen by 16.3 million viewers; Thursday’s game drew 16.2 million and Tuesday’s clash was seen by 14 million viewers.

NBC’s Monday edition of “The Voice” was right behind in fourth place, with the Tuesday edition of the singing competition claiming sixth place for the week. Tucked in between was “America’s Got Talent” on NBC.

For the week, front-runner ABC averaged 7.5 million viewers. NBC was second with 6.1 million, followed by CBS with 5.1 million, while Univision had 3.2 million, Fox had 3.1 million, Telemundo had 1.6 million, ION Television had 1.1 million and the CW had 750,000.

USA was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.7 million viewers in prime time. Disney Channel had 2.5 million, History had 2.1 million and Fox News Channel had 1.7 million.

NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.1 million viewers. ABC’s “World News” was second with 6.8 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.8 million viewers.

For the week of June 10-16, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Sunday), ABC, 16.27 million; NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Thursday), ABC, 16.23 million; NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Tuesday), ABC, 14.05 million; “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 11.85 million; “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 11.52 million; “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.66 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 8.67 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 8.62 million; “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 7.43 million; “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” CBS, 7.14 million.

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Thirty-seven-year-old Tina Marie Garrison and Junior Lee Dillon, both of Preston, were charged last month with receiving stolen property and theft.

Garrison has pleaded not guilty. Her son has a court hearing next month.

The complaint alleges a gopher trapper contacted the Fillmore County sheriff’s office, saying bags of frozen gopher feet had been stolen from his freezer.

The owner contacted local townships that offer rewards for gophers to keep down their numbers and found Dillon had turned in $1,014 in feet in November. In December, Garrison turned in $3,780 in feet.

The Post-Bulletin (http://bit.ly/1299xC8) reports Dillon denied turning in any feet for the bounty.

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Seconds later, police say Jennings fired a single shot at the back of Cheryl’s father’s head, nearly killing him. The loud bang pierced the silence, sending people diving for cover beneath pews and the priest behind the altar.

“It was echoing in my head so loud,” said Rebecca Ory Hernandez, who was only a few feet away with her 5-year-old son. She grabbed the boy, threw him under the pew and got on top of him. She heard the pastor blurt out an expletive into his microphone. “I was waiting for another gunman,” she said.

The shooter ran from the church, the pastor and a half dozen other men close on his heels. Ory Hernandez and other parishioners went to James Evans. They used scarves and a shirt to help soak up the blood, and she cradled his head. His wife, Tara, who had been standing next to him, and others prayed.

“I’m OK, I’m OK,” Evans kept saying, as blood spilled from his mouth.

Meanwhile, Charles Richard Jennings Jr., 35, stole a truck from a nearby neighbour at gunpoint and led police on a highway chase, police said. He was caught hours later on foot after the truck ran out of gas.

Jennings was charged Tuesday with attempted murder. The Weber County attorney also charged him with two counts each of aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery and possession of a firearm by a restricted person.

Jennings made a brief court appearance by video. Bail was set at $105,000. His next court hearing has been set for Thursday afternoon. Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Jennings’ attorney were not immediately successful. He has not yet entered a plea.

Police are still trying to determine why Jennings shot his father-in-law, said Ogden Police Lt. Danielle Croyle on Tuesday. They think he may have been drinking or on drugs, and detectives know the couple had a history of domestic disputes that may have triggered Sunday’s shooting, she said. But, she said Jennings has not given any specific confession as to why he shot Evans.

The Evans family, meanwhile, is grateful for a small miracle.

Evans, who turns 66 on Tuesday, was struck at the side of his head, the bullet going through near his ear and out his cheek and missing his brain, said Dr. Barbara Kerwin, the director of the intensive care unit at McDay-Dee Hospital in Ogden.

“He turned his head just at the right time,” his wife said Monday, crying at a hospital news conference. “If didn’t turn his head, he would have been hit in the back of the head and he would have been dead.”

Evans was upgraded to fair condition Tuesday and moved out of the hospital’s intensive care unit. Doctors expect him to survive, although he’ll need reconstructive surgery and rehab to learn to swallow and speak again, Kerwin said. He was awake on Monday, nodding yes and no, writing and using hand signals to communicate.

Jennings was booked on suspicion of attempted aggravated criminal homicide, aggravated robbery and possession of a firearm by a restricted user. Charges are expected to be filed Tuesday, and Jennings will appear by video for arraignment in Ogden, said Weber County deputy county attorney Dean Saunders.

Court records show Jennings has a criminal record going back to 1996, when he pleaded no contest to several traffic-related misdemeanours. Over the years, he’s pleaded no contest to felony charges of failing to yield to police and attempting to receive a stolen vehicle, and misdemeanour charges for traffic violations, criminal trespassing and theft. He’s also pleaded guilty to theft charges and a felony charge of attempting to tamper with a witness or juror.

Lt. Croyle said his wife, Cheryl, stayed inside the church after her husband fled. There is no indication she knew what her husband was going to do, and authorities don’t expect to file any charges against her, Croyle said.

After paramedics rushed James Evans to the hospital, the Rev. Erik Richtsteig returned to the brick church that sits on the east side of Ogden at the foot of a steep rock mountain called Jumpoff Canyon, surrounded by middle-class houses with manicured lawns and rose bushes.

As doctors operated on James Evans, who had recently accompanied the priest on a trip to the Holy Land in Jerusalem, Richtsteig told his congregation who the shooter was, and asked them to pray for the couple and their 3-year-old son.

Then, for those who stayed, he finished the Mass, explaining his reasons matter-of-factly, Ory Hernandez said.

“Evil will not prevail,” Richtsteig said.

The congregation is shaken, Richtsteig said Monday: “They were a mess — they were worshipping God and this man came in and did an act of violence.”

Ory Hernandez says she has cried, enraged that violence came to the house of worship, and was at a loss for words when her son told her, “I didn’t know there were any bad guys in this town, mommy.”

But it won’t stop her from coming back to church.

“The bad guy doesn’t get to win this time,” she said.

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Loud voices could be heard in the jury room a few hours before jurors threw in the towel and were dismissed. They sent three notes, the last one indicating they still couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict on the third day of deliberations, despite encouragement from Wayne County Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway.

Joseph Weekley, a member of an elite police squad, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones.

He was accused of being “grossly negligent” in how he handled his submachine gun as his black-clad, masked and armed unit stormed the Detroit home to capture a suspect in May 2010. Police threw a stun grenade through a window, and Weekley was the first officer through the door.

He told jurors that he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with the girl’s grandmother, but Mertilla Jones denied interfering with the gun. Weekley was not charged with intentionally shooting Aiyana.

The hunt for a murder suspect was being recorded by a crew from “The First 48,” a police show on A&E Networks. Some video shot from the sidewalk was part of the evidence.

The jury could have convicted Weekley of involuntary manslaughter, a felony, or reckless discharge of a firearm, a misdemeanour. He also could have been cleared of all charges.

The judge listed several factors for the jury to consider on the involuntary manslaughter charge. To convict, the jury had to find that he wilfully disregarded possible injuries to others by failing to control his gun, as well as other elements.

“We are stuck,” the jury said in its first note Tuesday.

Before dismissing the jurors, the judge asked if anyone felt that more deliberations would be fruitful if “some matters” could be addressed. She didn’t elaborate. Only one juror raised her hand.

“One out of 12 probably won’t be enough,” Hathaway said.

The mistrial doesn’t mean the charges go away. Hathaway will hold future hearings to discuss the case.

“The Wayne County prosecutor’s office is prepared to proceed with the case,” Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement.

There was no immediate comment from Weekley or his attorney, Steve Fishman.

Separately, a videographer for the “The First 48,” Allison Howard, is charged with perjury and withholding video crucial to the investigation. Her trial is set for June 24.

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Britain’s Guardian newspaper says spies monitored the computers and intercepted the phone calls of foreign politicians and officials at two G20 meetings in London in 2009.

The paper says the effort included penetration of delegates’ BlackBerry smartphones to monitor their email messages and calls.

The Guardian published PowerPoint slides describing the operation, including one featuring the emblem of the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency.

It appears alongside the logos of key allies — the U.S. National Security agency and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters — along with an icon labelled Joint Apps.

The documents were leaked to the Guardian by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The Calgary-based oil company (TSX:CVE) is expecting to finish 2014 by moving 30,000 barrels by rail — up from the 10,000 it’s anticipating by the end of 2013.

As part of the strategy, Cenovus has signed multi-year leases for 800 railcars.

Of those, 500 will be equipped with heated coils so that they can carry thick oilsands bitumen.

Cenovus and many of its peers are looking at rail as an alternative to get their oil to the most lucrative markets, as environmental opposition has led to delays in building pipeline projects such as Keystone XL and Northern Gateway.

CEO Brian Ferguson says trains have been carrying materials much more hazardous than oil through North America for decades, so he doubts there will be much public outcry to increasing crude transport by rail.

Encephalitis has already killed at least 118 children this year, and authorities fear the death toll could reach about 1,000, said Dr. R.N. Singh of the Encephalitis Eradication Movement, an Indian non-profit.

While India’s efforts against polio and tuberculosis get plenty of attention, the poor farmers and day labourers of eastern Uttar Pradesh state face an almost-silent emergency, battling a disease that has killed thousands of children over the past eight years.

Many families have taken out crushing loans for treatment. The children who survive often cannot communicate because of brain damage. They stare off listlessly, unable to recognize friends they played with just months before. Some are so severely disabled that their impoverished parents are told to abandon them.

Sangita Devi’s 4-year-old son Anup Kumar has been in a hospital for four months.

“We have mortgaged our house for our son’s treatment. But there is no improvement in his condition. He cannot even stand now,” she said.

The disease is predictable and preventable. Every year the monsoon fills the region’s parched paddy fields, heralding the arrival of the mosquitoes that spread Japanese encephalitis from pigs to humans, devastating malnourished children with low immunity. Another strain of the disease — Acute Encephalitis Syndrome — spreads through contaminated water. Residents use the fields for defecation, contaminating the ground water.

A vaccine has long been available, but the state government — which spent tens of millions of dollars building monuments to its last top politician — has failed to muster the sustained political will to focus on the communities hardest hit by the illness.

The disease killed more than 1,500 children in 2005, the worst recent year,

Shocked by the deaths, Uttar Pradesh’s highest court in 2006 asked the state and federal governments to declare encephalitis a national health emergency. “A concrete action plan must be drawn,” it said.

That year the government started vaccinating children against Japanese encephalitis. The government vowed to immunize every child in the worst-affected areas and to launch a massive drive to improve sanitation. For a couple of years, the numbers dropped. In 2006, the disease killed 431 children.

But the crowded hospital wards of the tiny town of Gorakhpur reflect how the immunization drive has fizzled out. Last year, more than 700 children died.

Amid the cloying smells of ether and disinfectant, 7-year-old Amit jostled his mother. His words were slurred and, every time he tried to break free of her grip, he fell to the floor. She kissed his dry and dirty cheek.

“He cannot stand on his own any more. He cannot speak. Cannot say whether he wants food or water. He has no control over his bladder,” said his mother, Kunti, as she held him close. Like many poor Indians they use one name.

Her husband, a labourer on a construction site in neighbouring Bihar state, earns about 180 rupees, or $3, a day. He had to borrow $850 from a money lender to pay for his son’s treatment, and had to sell his only cow.

The family is like hundreds of others in this area. They have sold their tiny fields, their cattle and their bits of family jewelry. They have buried themselves under loans they may never be able to repay. They have done all this to give their children some hope of a normal life.

Health experts say the government has made repeated mistakes in the fight against encephalitis. Most of the 7.5 million children vaccinated between 2006 and 2010 were given only a single dose of a two-dose vaccine, said Singh, of the Encephalitis Eradication Movement.

“Who is responsible for the children who died between 2006 and 2010?” Singh asked.

In 2010 the vaccination drive suddenly stopped because funds dried up. The sanitation drive never fully started.

To make matters worse, in the 23 worst-affected districts in the state, only one hospital — the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur — is equipped to deal with the hundreds of sick children. They fill its 108-bed encephalitis ward.

“By the time they reach here, it’s too late,” said Dr. K.P. Kushwaha, who heads the hospital.

According to hospital data, 5,136 children with encephalitis died in its wards between 2005 and 2012. This year, 118 children had died by the end of May. The figures don’t include children treated at private clinics or those who never made it to medical care.

Survivors who develop brain damage, common among young children, have no rehabilitation centres despite a 2011 court order telling the state government to set them up.

For Amit’s father, Birza Majhi, there is little hope.

“People in my village have asked us to leave our son at a railway station or somewhere else. They say this boy has no future. He is just a burden on us,” he said. “How can we do it, sir? As long as I’m alive I’ll keep trying.”