The Associated PressYuras KarmanauAnd Nataliya Vasilyeva KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin lamented Friday the inability of his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to ensure a pullback of heavy weaponry in eastern Ukraine as the first step toward peace settlement. Putin’s remarks today came a week after Ukraine, along with […]
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The Associated Press WAILUKU, Hawaii–A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world’s heaviest avocado. The Pokini family from the island of Maui received the Guinness certificate this week for the avocado weighing 5.6 pounds (2.54 kilograms), The Maui News reported yesterday. The average […]
The Associated PressThomas Adamson CHAMPS-SUR-MARNE, France — The golden angel once glimmered majestically from Notre Dame’s vault. Now, with a broken nose, chipped gold-leaf and a smashed bust, it stares up blankly at a warehouse roof in the outskirts of Paris where blackened fragments of the famed cathedral’s stained glass […]
The Associated PressRick Callahan INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s attorney general said 165 sets of fetal remains have been found in the Chicago area inside a car owned by a late Indiana abortion doctor today, boosting the total number of abandoned sets of fetal remains discovered at properties linked to him to […]
Sherri DeBungie, left, Carol Whitiker, and Steve Brown of Sunset Country Ford showed off a trunk load of donations for the BDO Food Drive yesterday morning. The donations will support the Fort Frances Food Bank and help those in who struggle with food insecurity locally. The Sunset Country Ford team […]
Luz and Christine McGoldrick stopped by the “Quilt for a Cure” raffle table to buy a ticket during the Luncheon of Hope at the Copper River Inn on Saturday. The quilt was donated by the Friends of Barb Ross group and the winner of the raffle was Maureen Hayward, In […]
Construction crews burn the midnight oil as they lay a concrete curb at the work site on Second Street in Fort Frances on Tuesday night. Construction has dragged on through the summer and into the fall, with completion dates being pushed back into November. No doubt the rain isn’t helping. […]
The Canadian Press QUEBEC–The Quebec government is appealing a court decision last month that invalidated the parts of the province’s cannabis law that prohibit home cultivation. Premier Francois Legault told reporters yesterday his government “will go right to the limit in the courts to do what we think is good […]
The Canadian PressMichelle McQuigge TORONTO — An Ontario judge has dismissed an advocacy group’s bid to secure the right to speak on behalf of animals in legal settings. Superior Court Justice Lorne Sossin says several of the issues raised by Canadians for Animal Protection have merit and deserve to be […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–Hundreds of affordable child-care spaces in Toronto could be put at risk next year due to funding cuts made by the provincial government, says a new report released by the city on Tuesday. Recent changes to a child-care expansion fund will result in a reduction of […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The political weight attached to whether and where to build pipelines in Canada came through clearly last night (Oct. 10) in the French-language leaders’ debate, in a spirited two-hour contest that marks a milestone for the federal election campaign. Advance polls open today (Oct. 11) and with […]
The Canadian PressBill Graveland A South Carolina man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted an Alberta woman after luring her south of the border with the promise of a modelling job has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Fred Russell Urey, 41, was arrested in May 2017. He pleaded guilty […]
