The Associated PressKyle Hightower BOSTON–When Drew Pomeranz has been on the mound this season, it’s usually meant good things for the Boston Red Sox. Pomeranz pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning, and Dustin Pedroia drove in three runs, as the Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 last […]
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The Canadian Press ORLEANS, Ont.–Olympic medallists John Morris and Shannon Kleibrink are two of the headliners in the 28-team field for the Home Hardware Road to the Roar pre-trials curling competition. The Nov. 6-12 event at Summerside’s Credit Union Place will determine the final entries for the Canadian curling trials […]
The Associated Press PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y.–A dog that saw a baby deer in danger of drowning in New York jumped in and dragged it to shore. The daring rescue in Long Island Sound was caught on video by his owner, Mark Freeley. He told WCBS-TV that he was taking the […]
The Associated Press LAS CRUCES, N.M.–A New Mexico State University anthropology professor is on a mission to save moon-landing sites. Beth O’Leary is speaking this week in Washington, D.C. on preserving the spots where humans stepped on the surface of the moon. She is giving presentations at the National Geographic […]
The Associated Press LAS CRUCES, N.M.–A boy’s misstep on a family hike in New Mexico has given the world a prehistoric wonder. Ten-year-old Jude Sparks was on a desert hike in Las Cruces in November when he tripped over what turned out to be the fossilized tusk of a 1.2 […]
Staff John Desaulniers left the Northwest Bay Chieftains starving for hits after the first game. But the road team was able to take a bite out of Murray Armstrong to salvage its evening. Desaulniers tossed a no-hitter to lead the defending Rainy River District Fastball League champion Sight & Sound […]
Staff A resilient keeper and another positive cameo appearance by a female sharpshooter led to a big turnaround for Pharmasave. Steve Hands went from shell-shocked to superb as he stopped everything fired his way as last-place Pharmasave (4-10) upset second-place Manitou Forest Products (5-4-2) by a 1-0 score in Borderland […]
A photo cutline in yesterday’s Times incorrectly identified the person venerating the cross as Fr. Robert Hladiuk. In fact, he is a deacon. As well, he wrongly was identified as previously having served as a parish priest here from the late 1950s to the early ’60s (that, in fact, was […]
Joey Payeur Micaela Jack of the Big Grassy Lynx waited for a throw from Northwest Bay Beavers’ third baseman Connie Smith for Team One during the second inning of the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League’s annual all-star game yesterday evening at Manitou. Rylee Redford of the Fort Frances Angels […]
Kiera Kowalski Carl Murray of New Brunswick was one of the many “Canadian Coasters” who cruised into Fort Frances yesterday. Once he arrived, he parked his 1958 Austin Cambridge pickup, with its matching boler, to participate in the annual “Scott Street Show ‘n Shine” organized by the local International Early […]
Joey Payeur It was full speed ahead for Team #25 as Norm Wood and Hunter Koles of Fort Frances headed out on Rainy Lake for Day 1 of the 23rd-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship this morning. Some 95 boats launched from the Sorting Gap Marina, where the weigh-in gets […]
The Canadian Press EDMONTON–Doctors at the University of Alberta are raising the alarm about a rare tapeworm that, until recently, hadn’t been seen in humans in Canada since the 1920s. The worm is harmless to coyotes and other dogs, but can spread like a slow-moving cancer in humans and is […]
