Joey Payeur Needing a goal to keep their shootout hopes alive, Andrew Willner put this backhander upstairs on Dryden GM Ice Dogs’ goalie Taylor Unruh in the third round of what turned out to be a nine-round shootout won by the Lakers to give them a 7-6 victory and extend […]
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Staff Rolling sevens is a sign of good luck at the craps tables. But four teams in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League were content with hitting sixes last night during matches at Fort High and St. Michael’s School. The quartet that garnered the maximum half-dozen points available included league-leading […]
By Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press WASHINGTON A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John, according to American officials. Whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of […]
By Kim Tong-Hyung The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of Eight men who had been held as slaves at South Korean salt farms for several years took the government to court on Friday for alleged negligence and police inaction they say largely caused and prolonged their ordeal. In the lawsuit […]
By Brady McCombs And Michelle L. Price The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY Utah state officials are challenging a decision made by a Utah judge to a take a baby away from lesbian foster parents and place her with a heterosexual couple for the child’s well-being. Utah Division of Child […]
By Brady McCombs The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY New Mormon church rules targeting gay members and their children have triggered a firestorm of backlash from church members of all political backgrounds. Mormon scholar Patrick Mason said the symbolism of targeting kids has riled up even conservative, orthodox Latter-day Saints […]
By Verena Dobnik The Associated Press NEW YORK Sotheby’s is offering what experts consider the world’s most important private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts, collected by a London diamond dealer. The 11,000 items document life in the Jewish diaspora from Europe and Africa to Asia, spanning a millennium, Sotheby’s […]
By Danica Kirka The Associated Press LONDON It’s no fun being in the middle. Heineken, Molson Coors and Carlsberg are storied brewers that trace their roots back hundreds of years and have loyal drinkers around the world. But the merger of their two biggest competitors leaves such mid-size brewers without […]
The Associated Press MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said plans for a new submarine-launched nuclear torpedo shown on Kremlin-controlled television were secret and should never have been aired. NTV and Channel One showed a large document ‚Äî filmed over a military officer’s shoulder during a meeting with Putin ‚Äî with […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Many of the signature dishes of Hanukkah involve either cheese or frying in oil… Or both! Since I like to have it all, I created these fried sweet cheese and almond dumplings a luscious dessert ‚Äî featuring both ingredients. Happily, they are easy to […]
The Canadian PressAlexander Panetta WASHINGTON—Critics of Justin Trudeau’s guarantee of a gender-equal cabinet have found a famous ally south of the border: Donald Trump. The billionaire politician was asked yesterday in an interview about imitating the new Canadian prime minister’s half-male, half-female cabinet—and he said no. An MSNBC interviewer brought […]
The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—There’s a new rocky Earth-size planet on our galactic block—and it’s a sizzler. Astrophysicists yesterday revealed the newfound world, which is named GJ 1132b after the small nearby star that it orbits. Even though the mercury can hit 450 degrees F on this planet, it’s […]
