REYES-Born to Aram Reyes and Alyson Reyes Ricard, of Seoul, South Korea, a girl, Nuri Marvel, weighing 7 lbs 3 oz on October 17, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. Proud grandparents are Lorne and Maureen Ricard and Alma Rosa Alcarez of Monterrey, Mexico. Proud great grandmother is Crete McLeod.
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Staff The Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is putting out a last call for nominations for its 2017-18 board of directors and executive. The Chamber will hold its general meeting next Tuesday (Nov. 29) from 5:30-7 p.m. at La Place Rendez-Vous, at which time nominations will close, with the voting […]
Duane Hicks Sgt. Mark Chwastyk stopped a motorist on Second Street East yesterday afternoon during the first day of the OPP’s annual Festive R.I.D.E. campaign. Until Jan. 7, officers will be holding R.I.D.E. checks at all times of day across Rainy River District to make sure people aren’t driving impaired, […]
By Todd Richmond The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Federal judges struck down Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn legislative districts as unconstitutional on Monday, marking a victory for minority Democrats that could force the Legislature to redraw the maps. The three-judge panel didn’t order any immediate changes to district boundaries, instead saying they […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States is already setting twice as many daily heat records as cold records, but a new study predicts that will get a lot more lopsided as man-made climate change worsens. Under normal conditions, without extra heat-trapping gases from human activity, […]
By Menelaos Hadjicostis The Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus — Crucial talks being held at a Swiss resort aiming to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus have hit an impasse, officials said Monday, in a serious setback that casts doubt over whether 18 months of negotiations can successfully resolve the decades-old dispute. Cyprus’ […]
By Frank Eltman The Associated Press NEW YORK — The blue and grey stripes struck Jillian Eisman like a lightning bolt. She was rummaging through a packed closet during a Long Island tag sale when she immediately recognized the symbol of horror and hate: A jacket worn by a prisoner […]
The Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Police arrested a Chattanooga school bus driver on charges including vehicular homicide after a bus crash killed five students. Calling the Monday afternoon crash “every public safety professional’s worst nightmare,” Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher told an overnight news conference that 24-year-old bus driver […]
The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for the leader of a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed a threat to oust Syrian Kurds from a town in northern Syria. Prosecutors in Ankara demanded the arrest of 48 Kurdish […]
By Karin Laub The Associated Press BEIRUT — For the first few weeks of her job recycling garbage, Haela Kalawi often went home crying. It wasn’t just the grungy setting a dimly lit, airless basement where the 31-year-old refugee with a cherubic face slips on plastic gloves and digs into […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK — A painting by Norman Rockwell that depicts the undecided voter sentiment during the 1944 presidential election ‚Äî much like the 2016 race ‚Äî has sold for $6.5 million at an auction of American art in New York. “Which One? (Undecided; Man in Voting Booth)” […]
By Ken Moritsugu The Associated Press TOKYO — Coastal residents fled to higher ground as a powerful earthquake sent a series of moderate tsunamis toward Japan’s northeastern shore Tuesday and fueled concerns about the Fukushima nuclear power plant destroyed by a much larger tsunami five years ago. Lines of cars […]
