Duane Hicks Rusty Myers Flying Service recently sold the floats off their four Beechcraft Model 18 airplanes to a company in B.C. The “Twin Beeches” haven’t been flown for the last two years as the company has been using its more reliable Cessna Caravans. The Beeches’ wings have been removed […]
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Joey Payeur Sekina Scheibler (25) changed from a running back into a guided missile as he slammed ahead on this second-quarter carry against the Daniel McIntyre Maroons on Friday. Scheibler’s ground game was part of the reason the Muskies snapped their six-game losing streak in their annual Homecoming game with […]
By Karl Ritter And Malin Rising The Associated Press STOCKHOLM ‚Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that can be used to develop new cancer treatments. Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich […]
By Desmond Butler And Vadim Ghirda The Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate several city blocks. It was earlier this year, and the two men were […]
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON The biggest study ever of women who had ovarian tissue removed, frozen and transplanted suggests the experimental technique is safe and can help about one third of them to have babies. The procedure is intended for women with cancer who wish to preserve […]
The Canadian Press In her new cookbook “True to Your Roots: Vegan Recipes to Comfort and Nourish You,” Carla Kelly uses some tricks to reinvent vegetables in creative ways. “I find the recipe generating is a really organic process and it comes from perhaps something you’ve seen somewhere or something […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK The latest on allegations that former United Nations General Assembly President Josh Ashe accepted bribes to help a Chinese real estate mogul and other businesspeople gain investments and government contracts (all times local):11:55 a.m. A federal prosecutor has formally announced bribery conspiracy charges against a […]
The Canadian Press STOCKHOLM—A Canadian is co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on tiny particles called neutrinos. Arthur McDonald, a professor emeritus at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. and the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Northern Ontario, and Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita were […]
The Canadian PressDirk Meissner VICTORIA—It was the perfect Hollywood ending to a guns-drawn pursuit of a cougar bounding across backyards, over fences, and through garages in a downtown Victoria neighbourhood steps from B.C.’s legislature. Dozens of residents peered over fences or stood on balconies watching the drama as police and […]
From the OPP Rainy River District OPP officers conducted a R.I.D.E check on Highway 71 in Chapple township on Friday evening. Officers checked more than 300 vehicles for impaired drivers, as well as Highway Traffic Act and Liquor Licence Act infractions. A total of nine young persons were charged under […]
From the OPP The Kenora OPP received a call just after 10 a.m. today that a male suspect had been observed with a firearm on the trail system in the north end of Kenora, near a number of schools. All schools in the area were placed on immediate lockdown. These […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Stephen Harper’s blockbuster trade deal upstaged Justin Trudeau’s students and the stage and screen stars backstopping Tom Mulcair yesterday as the three main parties began their two-week sprint to the ballot box. Mulcair, the NDP leader, had a stage full of television, music, and film personalities (it […]
