Staff They are the top two teams for a reason—and they made that reason clear last night. How I Set Your Mother and Kiss My Pass each garnered the maximum six points in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action to further widen the gap between themselves and the rest […]
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Nicholas Donaldson Mary O’Connor (right), Client Services co-ordinator for the local Alzheimer’s Society, listened to stories at her information booth set up at the Fort Frances Public Library yesterday afternoon. She also held a public information session yesterday morning at the Sister Kennedy Center for those wanting to learn more […]
Staff Coming off one of her roughest performances of the season, Kamryn Sandelovich put forth one of her best. The Grade 9 rookie goalie made 38 saves and was the big reason the Muskie girls’ hockey team was able to salvage a 1-1 tie with the host Bemidji Lumberjacks in […]
Staff When a team gets more first-place finishes than it has team members, it’s safe to say it had a successful outing. So it went for the nine-person contingent from the Border Skating Club, which glided to 16 gold medals and 26 top-three finishes at the “Icebox Days” figure skating […]
Staff They’re halfway home and halfway to St. Catharines all at once. The Sudbury-based rink skipped by Tracy Fleury, which includes second Jenna Walsh (née Enge) from Devlin, is riding high with a 3-0 record so far at the 2017 Scotties Northern Ontario provincial women’s curling championship in Nipigon. On […]
By Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON — As many as 117 civilians have been killed in drone and other counterterror attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere during President Barack Obama’s presidency, according to a report released late Thursday by U.S. intelligence officials. It was the second public assessment the […]
The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A scientist in California has named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump, saying the white and yellow scales on the insect’s head are reminiscent of Trump’s blond hairdo. The moth was named Neopalpa donadltrumpi by evolutionary biologist Dr. Vazrick Nazari, who […]
By Tom Hays The Associated Press NEW YORK — Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, one of the world’s most notorious drug kingpins, is finally headed for a court date the United States sought for two decades while he made brazen prison escapes and spent years on the run in Mexico. Extradited […]
The Associated Press LONDON — Britain’s Royal Navy has removed a suspected World War II bomb whose discovery in the River Thames shut down a chunk of central London. The Metropolitan Police force says that officers were called Thursday afternoon “to reports of suspected World War II ordnance in the […]
The Associated Press PARIS — UNESCO says about a third of the ancient city of Aleppo has been destroyed during the war in Syria. The United Nations cultural organization conducted an emergency mission in Aleppo from between Monday and Thursday this week to assess damage at the World Heritage Site […]
By Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian officials and lawmakers lauded Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday, hoping it will herald a period of better ties with the United States, while revelers in Moscow and elsewhere gathered for celebrations as bar and club owners sought to cash in on public […]
By Sarah El Deeb And Zeina Karam The Associated Press BEIRUT — Syrian rebels are sending more than a dozen representatives next week to the capital of Kazakhstan for talks with government representatives, the first such negotiations between the two sides in a year. But the loss of Aleppo, the […]
