Cameron Penney Sgt. Greg Beazley, right, the Emergency Response Team (ERT) leader here in Fort Frances, showed off a rubber bullet to Randy Cameron yesterday afternoon at Canadian Tire. The display of equipment used by the ERT was part of a promotion for “Police Week,” which also included an appearance […]
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Staff There was no room for error and the Carleton Place Canadians suffered for it. The Canadians, captained by Fort Frances native Jordan Larson, had a mighty task in front of them yesterday if they hoped to make it to the playoff round at the RBC Cup in Lloydminster. Instead, […]
Staff Three new fires were confirmed yesterday in the Northwest Region. Fort Frances Fire #5 was reported as “being held” at 0.9 hectares in size. The human-caused blaze is located just west of Sakwite Lake. Kenora Fire #30, meanwhile, is a .01-ha blaze currently listed as “not under control” Thunder […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK — The number of pregnant women in the United States infected with Zika virus is suddenly tripling, due to a change in how the government is reporting cases. Previously, officials had reported how many pregnant women had both Zika symptoms and positive […]
By Jocelyn Noveck The Associated Press NEW YORK — When Eric Ripert turned 18, he had a crisis of confidence. He was working in Paris at the famed La Tour D’Argent, a grueling first step on the journey from his childhood in the mountains of Andorra to where he is […]
By Marcy Gordon And Tom Hays The Associated Press NEW YORK — Phil Mickelson paid off a debt to a professional gambler with nearly $1 million that was unfairly reaped from an insider trading scheme, according to a federal investigation that led to two arrests but spared the golf great […]
By Michelle Faul The Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria — Aid workers and parents of the girls who were kidnapped from a school in 2014 lashed out at the Nigerian government and military Thursday for their handling of the first of the so-called Chibok girls to escape the Islamic extremist group […]
The Associated Press KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan man is facing charges after a stripper was paid with a counterfeit $100 bill following a lap dance. Stephen Gidcumb is charged with intentionally passing counterfeit notes. Police tell The Detroit News that fake bills were mixed in with real $100 […]
By Marina Starleaf Riker The Associated Press HONOLULU — The last 50 wild donkeys on Hawaii’s Big Island will be rounded up to mark the final step in a six-year effort to get them in adoptive homes. The donkeys are the last of more than 500 who were cast-offs from […]
By Muneeza Naqvi And Manish Mehta The Associated Press DEVADI VILLAGE, India — For two years the farmer was hopeful. He borrowed hundreds of thousands of rupees (thousands of dollars) to build a pipeline that connected a local dam to his fields of cotton and sugarcane. Two years ago the […]
The Associated Press CAIRO — An Egyptian army spokesman says plane wreckage has been found 290 kilometres from Alexandria. EgyptAir flight 804 disappeared from the radar early Thursday while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo. The passengers included two unidentified Canadians. The wreckage was found as authorities […]
The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — A spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum says a Polish-made golden ring and chain have been found hidden under the false base of an enameled mug that must have belonged to a victim of the Nazis’ death camp. Piotr Sawicki told The Associated Press on […]
