By Katie Workman The Associated Press Petite beef sirloin is a great cut of meat to get to know. It usually is less expensive than the larger filet mignon cuts sometimes significantly and it cooks up quite quickly. That’s a lot to love! The cut comes from the top sirloin, […]
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By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Somewhere in the repertoire of every healthy-minded cook is a stir-fry. You chop up a bunch of veggies, cook them quickly at high heat, add meat or tofu, maybe a flavourful sauce or a sprinkle of chopped cashews or peanuts. Easy, healthy and versatile. […]
Staff They get knocked down but they get up again. The Fort Frances rink of skip Chris Silver, third Daniel Vandenbrand, second Jason Bazylewski, and lead Davis Jackson bounced back from their first loss by dumping Aaron Soulliere (Thessalon) 9-1 in six ends earlier today to improve to 2-1 at […]
Joey Payeur The North Western Ontario Snowmobile Trails Association (NWOSTA) President’s Ride continued its six-day trek with a stop at Couchiching yesterday morning. The group began the inaugural edition of the event Monday in Atikokan in a bid to promote the NWOSTA Wilderness Loop of trails, with the sledders expected […]
Joey Payeur The final chapter had a familiar outcome. But the rest of the story was a spellbinding page-turner. The famous cliché about the regular season meaning nothing came to life last night as the heavily-favoured Muskies had to reach deep to pull out a 4-3 victory over the Kenora […]
By Elaine Kurtenbach The Associated Press TOKYO Japan’s latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signalled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan’s population stood at 127.1 million last fall, down 0.7 per cent from 128.1 million in 2010, according to results […]
By Rachel D’Oro THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska Alice Tanaka Hikido clearly remembers the bewilderment and sense of violation she felt 74 years ago when FBI agents rifled through her family’s Juneau home, then arrested her father before he was sent to Japanese internment camps, including a little-known […]
By Julie Pace The Associated Press WASHINGTON Marco Rubio unleashed a campaign’s worth of harsh criticism on Donald Trump in the final Republican debate before Tuesday’s crucial primaries. The problem may be that it took 10 debates and three Trump victories to get Rubio fired up. Rubio, along with most […]
By Roxana Hegeman And Maria Fisher The Associated Press HESSTON, Kan. A man who shot three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protection from abuse order that likely triggered the attack, a […]
US space-endurance champ says he could do another year CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. America’s space-endurance champ, Scott Kelly, returns to Earth next week after nearly a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. High on his to-do list when he gets back: jumping into his pool and dining at a […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press With St. Patrick’s Day looming, my first thought was that nothing would be more fitting than to salute the patron saint of the Emerald Isle with a fish dish dressed in a very green sauce, one that came by its colour honestly, with no […]
Heather Latter The Place staffer Janice Florek voted for her favourite “Little Sweetheart” in the contest being run by the local Xi Tau chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. The display, featuring photos of 13 babies, is up at The Place until 3 p.m. this Sunday (Feb. 28). People are encouraged […]
