By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. — Stephen Curry grew up just 20 minutes away from one of the showplace tracks in NASCAR. Despite the proximity, he never made it out to an event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Some 2,700 miles away, at a road course in California, […]
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By Leanne Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kerry Washington, always a red carpet favourite, won the Emmys red carpet Sunday, showing off her huge baby bump in a black custom Brandon Maxwell strapless gown with daring cutouts, her hair long, loose and curly. “She was dressing for two and got the […]
By Meera Sodha The Associated Press I love baking but until I was 16, our oven was just used as a place to keep big cutting boards and exiled frying pans. My Indian parents were of a place and time where no one had ovens at home. All breads were […]
Staff No Diggity and Rockstars got the early jump on the rest of the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League. Both teams earned the maximum six points available as regular-season action opened last night at Fort High and St. Michael’s School. Let’s Talk About Sets settled for five points to slide […]
Staff Tickets still are available for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care’s fall gala, this year entitled “Mobsters and Dames,” which is set for next Saturday (Sept. 24) at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Foundation director Samantha Manty noted tickets for the annual event typically sell out quickly. But due […]
Heather Latter Joey Payeur, co-organizer of this year’s Terry Fox Run here, showed off one of the 2016 T-shirts that will be sold on site during Sunday’s event at the Sorting Gap Marina. A fundraiser breakfast will take place there first from 9-11 a.m., with the annual 5K event getting […]
The Associated Press MADRID—If space is the final frontier, it will help to have an accurate map. The European Space Agency said yesterday its mission to chart more than one billion stars in the Milky Way is on track for completion in a year’s time. The agency released the first […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK—A New York City museum is offering visitors a chance to sit on a golden throne—but only in private. As part of his “America” exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan replaced the toilet in the museum’s fourth-floor restroom with a fully-functional […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG—Lab tests are being done on samples taken from hundreds of drug doses seized in Winnipeg this week to determine whether a dangerous opioid 100 times more powerful than fentanyl has arrived in the city. Police say officers discovered upwards of 1,500 doses at a west-end hotel […]
From the MNRF No new fires were reported in the Northwest Region by yesterday afternoon. The forest fire hazard, however, is rising to mostly “moderate” across the region, with some areas of “low.” Forest fire activity starts to ease as cooler weather arrives and days gradually get shorter, but there […]
From the OPP Around 8 p.m. yesterday, Rainy River District OPP officers, as well as the Emergency Medical Service and the Fort Frances and Watten Fire Departments, responded to a single-vehicle mishap on Highway 11 near the Windy Point bridge. A tractor-trailer unit was westbound when the driver lost control. […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK — A New York City museum is offering visitors a chance to sit on a golden throne, but only in private. As part of his “America” exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan replaced the toilet in the museum’s fourth-floor restroom […]
