The Associated PressStephen Whyno WASHINGTON—T.J. Oshie raised his arms in celebration and looked at referee Dan O’Rourke. Oshie was pretty sure he scored in overtime to complete a hat trick and one of the biggest games of his career. Oshie’s third goal of the night stood up after video review […]
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By Mark Pratt The Associated Press BOSTON — A dozen giant bronze animal heads representing the signs of the Chinese zodiac are stopping people in their tracks in downtown Boston and sparking conversations. “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” by contemporary Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei, is the latest […]
By Tim Sullivan The Associated Press INCHEON, Korea, Republic Of — For much of the world, North Korea is a Stalinist nightmare, an isolated enclave of prison camps, poverty and hunger. But for tens of thousands of people scattered across South Korea and living underground in China, it’s something far […]
By David Rising The Associated Press DETMOLD, Germany — A 94-year-old former SS sergeant admitted in court Friday that he had served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, apologizing to Nazi Holocaust survivors looking on in a German courtroom that even though he was aware Jews were being gassed and […]
By Terry Tang The Associated Press PHOENIX — A stack of shipping containers sitting in a lot in an industrial section of Phoenix has some developers thinking inside the box. The structures usually used to transport cargo have been transformed into eight apartments. Scuff marks, old serial numbers and shipping […]
The Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government has blocked a Chinese-led consortium from buying the nation’s largest private land holding, a collection of Outback cattle ranches, for 371 million Australian dollars ($284 million). Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Friday the sale of pioneering dynasty-owned S. Kidman & Co. […]
The Associated Press MARSEILLE, France — French officials have unveiled a humanoid diving robot that they hope will give a big artificial hand to the practice of underwater archaeology. Ocean One, which looks like something out of a scuba-diving sequel to “Transformers,” is the work of a team of roboticists, […]
By Dusan Stojanovic The Associated Press KRNJACA, Serbia — She has wide brown eyes, rosy cheeks and thick black hair. Her name is Serbia Merkel al-Mustafa. Serbia for the country where she was born just a few days ago, Merkel for the leader of Germany, where her Syrian refugee parents […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK — Birth rates are falling dramatically for black and Hispanic teenagers, but they continue to be much higher than the birth rate for white teens. The Hispanic teen birth rate fell by half over about eight years, and the black teen birth […]
Joey Payeur Maggie Jean, seen here slipping past Savannah Basaraba of the La Place Rendez-Vous Rage, netted a pair of goals in lifting the Wright Physiotherapy Rockettes to a 5-2 win in the Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League final last night at Fort High. The Fine Foods Fury claimed third […]
Staff Dylan Robertson may be in line for yet another honour after a standout season. The Fort Frances Lakers’ captain was nominated for the CJHL player-of-the-year award yesterday after the 20-year-old from Atlanta led the local squad to its third-straight SIJHL crown. The honour is given annually to the player […]
The Canadian PressSidhartha Banerjee MONTREAL—For decades, she simply was known as Jane Doe No. 59—an unidentified body dumped with 150 stab wounds in Los Angeles in 1969 near the site of several killings perpetrated by the notorious Manson family. Yesterday, a Canadian connection was confirmed in the 47-year-old cold case […]
