The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C.–Two more goals for Patrik Laine. Two more points in the standings for the Winnipeg Jets. Laine scored twice for the second-straight game, and extended his points streak to eight, in the Jets’ 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes last night. Laine had his third multi-goal […]
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Staff How I Set Your Mother and Take A Hit both garnered the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action Thursday night. The Volley Llamas and Kiss My Pass each snared four points. Gillons’, Scared Hitless, Duck and Dive, Let’s Talk About Sets, and No Diggity all […]
The Associated PressJake Coyle LOS ANGELES–Against all odds, love won out at the 90th Academy Awards last night. Guillermo del Toro’s lavish, full-hearted monster romance, “The Shape of Water,” swam away with best picture at an Oscar ceremony flooded by a sense of a change for a movie business confronting […]
Staff A three-goal outburst in the first period ultimately was the Fort Frances Lakers’ undoing in a 5-2 loss to the English River Miners on Saturday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. It was all Miners in the opening 20 minutes as the visitors got tallies from Ethan Wong, […]
The Canadian PressPaige Kreutzwieser REGINA–A warm Brandt Centre is keeping the skips at the Tim Hortons Brier guessing. Saskatchewan’s Steve Laycock finally got a win for his hometown crowd with a 9-4 eight-end decision over New Brunswick’s James Grattan yesterday in Draw 5 of Canada’s men’s curling championship. Grattan had […]
The Associated PressSeth Borenstein WASHINGTON–After the “Big Bang,” it was cold and black. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that “dawn” of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were turning on the light in the cosmic darkness. And if […]
Press Release In voting held yesterday, 135 members of Unifor Local 324-99 voted 85 percent in favour of a new five-year collective agreement with Norbord covering its Oriented Strand Board (OSB) mill in Barwick. “The significant improvements achieved in this new deal are reflective of an improved relationship with Norbord […]
Staff It’s your last chance to sing in this year’s Easter cantata. The Fort Frances Choraliers will hold their second practice for “Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb” this Monday (March 5) at 7 p.m. at the New Beginnings Fellowship (1301 Mill Rd.) “If they want to get in, […]
The Associated PressNick Perry WELLINGTON, New Zealand–A troubled teenager who wanted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her 1981 visit to New Zealand fired a shot near her motorcade, newly-released documents show. New Zealand’s internal spy agency, the Security Intelligence Service, released the previously-classified documents to the news website Stuff, […]
Jamie Mountain A three-goal outburst in the opening five minutes was all the Muskie girls’ hockey team needed to skate to a 4-1 win over the Dryden Eagles in the opener of their best-of-three NorWOSSA final last night at the Ice For Kids Arena. Jillian Calder notched a pair of […]
Jamie Mountain Muskie Taylor Croswell tied up Dryden Eagles’ defender Katelyn Sillery while teammate Jillian Calder tried to dig the puck free during Fort High’s 4-1 win in the opener of the NorWOSSA girls’ hockey final last night at the Ice For Kids Arena. Calder scored twice to help the […]
The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla.–The Toronto Raptors have been on a tear offensively for the past month. They paused for a few minutes of defence–and it made the difference against Orlando last night. DeMar DeRozan scored 21 points and Kyle Lowry added 17 points, 11 assists, and seven rebounds to […]
