Duane Hicks Nominations for the 21st-annual Rainy River District Business Awards will open this Monday (Jan. 16). Starting that day, a link will be available on the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s website homepage (www.fortfranceschamber.com) to nominate a special business or individual in nine different categories. “There are so many […]
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The Associated Press NEW YORK — A 12-year-old New York City boy is accused of pulling a gun on a classmate and demanding that she give him her chicken nugget. Police say the boy first approached the girl inside a McDonald’s in Harlem on Tuesday and asked her for one […]
By Andrea RodriguezAlicia A. Caldwell And Julie Pace The Associated Press HAVANA — The Cuban government hailed President Barack Obama’s decision ending automatic legal residency for any Cuban who touches U.S. soil, while ordinary citizens mourned the end of an easy pathway to a new life in the United States. […]
The Associated Press JIAXING, China — A factory in eastern China has been doing a brisk business selling giant inflatable roosters, some as tall as 16 feet, based on a design widely perceived to resemble President-elect Donald Trump. Yifang Inflatables, a factory in the city of Jiaxing, near Shanghai, began […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts took another spacewalk Friday to plug in new and better batteries outside the International Space Station. It’s the same type of job that was conducted last Friday 250 miles above Earth. Commander Shane Kimbrough was back at it, but […]
By Janet McConnaughey The Associated Press Luke and Hillary Gardner never have a problem remembering each other’s birthday. After all, the husband and wife were born the same day. And so was their son, 27 years later this past December. The odds of that happening are about one in 133,000, […]
By Nancy Benac The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The inauguration of a new president requires the recitation of a 35-word oath. That’s it. Dress it up with some hoopla and glitz, though, and pretty soon you’re talking real money. Donald Trump will have it to spend. Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee […]
By Josh Boak And Carrie Antlfinger The Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Baby Boomers: your millennial children are worse off than you. With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 per cent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a […]
The Associated Press Cellebrite, a digital forensics firm known for helping law enforcement crack into locked smartphones, has itself fallen victim to hackers. Technology news website Motherboard said Thursday that it had obtained 900 gigabytes of data related to the Israel-based company. It said the trove of data includes customer […]
Staff No matter in what place or at what time they crossed the finish line, the most important first of the day already belonged to the host contingent. The Muskie Nordic ski team welcomed four other schools to the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club trails on Rocky Inlet yesterday for […]
Nicholas Donaldson Vince Gouin wrote a message in the sign-in book during Confederation College’s 50th anniversary launch party that took place yesterday at its Rainy River District campus here. Gouin, a shop teacher at Fort Frances High School, also teaches a woodworking course at the college during the summer months. […]
From the OPP The Rainy River District OPP was notified of a traffic complainant in the east end of Fort Frances on Tuesday around 3:30 p.m. Officers located the driver on the 800 block of Minnie Avenue. A Lake of the Woods Township man, aged 61, was arrested at the […]
