From the OPP On Thursday around 4:30 p.m., Atikokan OPP officers responded to a call for assistance on Marmion Lake. A 63-year-old Missouri man, who had entered the water to retrieve a boat, subsequently went underwater and did not surface. On Friday around 12:15 p.m., members of the Rainy River […]
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Staff They went with dreams but had to settle for coming home with only moral victories. The Muskie girls’ and boys’ soccer teams both went 0-4 at the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships in North Bay and Kingsville, respectively. Needing a win to stay alive for a playoff spot after dropping their […]
Staff Let it never be said that Jacob Empey didn’t give it his best. The Muskie athlete notched a new personal best in finishing 20th in the senior boys’ long jump at the OFSAA track and field championships Saturday in Windsor. Empey’s top leap measured at 5.69m—one centimetre better than […]
By Jill Colvin The Associated Press JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Donald Trump says he made “a lot of money” in a deal years ago with Moammar Gadhafi, despite suggesting at the time he had no idea the former Libyan dictator was involved in renting his suburban New York estate. “Don’t […]
By Michele Salcedo The Associated Press WASHINGTON — David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the network says. Gilkey and Tamanna were travelling with an Afghan army unit […]
By Kathleen Hennessey And Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is running out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible and considering novel legal strategies that include allowing some […]
By Alexander Panetta The Canadian Press SAN FRANCISCO — A soul-searching exercise awaits Democrats opposed to Hillary Clinton, who is on the cusp of securing their party’s presidential nomination Tuesday. They’ll soon be asked to support her in the general-election showdown against Donald Trump if she concludes the last big […]
The Associated Press LAYLAND, W.Va. — Authorities in West Virginia say a man and woman have been arrested on charges that they tried to sell the woman’s baby. Fayette County Sheriff Steve Kessler says in a news release that 25-year-old Ashley N. Harmon and 20-year-old Jonathan Isaac Lucas Flint were […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — Two months before Joe Clark died of colon cancer at age 31, a doctor gently told him it was time to stop treatment. He had suffered through more than a year of chemotherapy that produced painful sores in his mouth, last-ditch major […]
Staff Double-gold dreams went unfulfilled for Sekina Scheibler. The Muskie track-and-field athlete placed fifth in the junior boys’ discus throw event yesterday at the OFSAA championships in Windsor. Scheibler had a top throw of 46.48m in the fifth of six rounds—almost two metres less than his first-place throw at the […]
Staff After a frustrating first half in their usual purple attire, Al’s Racquet Stringing went retro in the second half—with monumental results. Sara Kellar and Hailey Beaudry each scored twice as Al’s doubled Taggs 6-3 yesterday evening in the Borderland Soccer League women’s division season-opener. It looked like it was […]
Joey Payeur Jess Badiuk of Taggs wasn’t going to make it easy for Jennie Dyck (27) of Al’s Racquet Stringing to get past during the first half of Al’s 6-3 win yesterday evening as the Borderland Soccer League kicked off another season of action.
