The Canadian Press HALIFAX—Police have charged a 27-year-old Halifax man with second-degree murder in the death of an off-duty police officer who was reported missing earlier this week when she didn’t show up for work. Halifax police said Christopher Calvin Garnier also is charged with indecently interfering with a dead […]
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Submitted Staff at the Northern Lights Credit Union were thrilled to bring the People’s Choice plaque back to work yesterday afternoon following the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s annual “Great Canadian Chili Cook-Off.” They beat out the Seven Generations Education Institute by one vote to garner the award.
Staff The congregation of the Church of the Holy Spirit is hoping people will come out and help make the 35th anniversary of the Terry Fox Run a success. The local “Marathon of Hope” is set to go this Sunday (Sept. 20) starting at the Sorting Gap Marina, with registration […]
Duane Hicks Cassy Bernard, left, Leah Galusha, John Payne, Jeff Bernard, and James Woods of the Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre showed off “The Gizhac Chili Shack” chili they prepared for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s “Great Canadian Chili Cook-Off” yesterday at the Legion. The team ended up winning the […]
Staff The time to put preparation into practice has arrived. Gridiron fever is back as the Muskie football team opens its WHSFL season here tomorrow at 3 p.m. against the Tec Voc Hornets. With the squad hoping to pack its newly-constructed bleachers for the contest, Fort High will look to […]
The Associated Press WOODLAND PARK, Colo.Experts at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center are confident the bones found by a team in Montana are those of a previously undiscovered species. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports outside experts will confirm whether this is indeed a new species of dinosaur, nicknamed Ava […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON It’s time for flu shots again, and health officials expect to avoid a repeat of the misery last winter, when immunizations weren’t a good match for a nasty surprise strain. More than 170 million doses of flu vaccine are expected this year, with […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Jasper White, one of my favourite Boston-area chefs and an old friend, likes to tell a story about the time Julia Child insisted he make common crackers (the hard round crackers served with chowder in New England) from scratch. It all started when White […]
The Associated Press LONDON Britain is abuzz with U.S. presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s suggestion that Margaret Thatcher should grace the new $10 bill. Mock-ups of a $10 note featuring the former prime minister feature prominently on newspaper websites Thursday. Even the BBC couldn’t resist, pasting an image of a steely-eyed, […]
By Lynn Berry The Associated Press FRYAZINO, Russia The elderly former Soviet military officer who answers the door is known in the West as “The man who saved the world.” A movie with that title, which hits theatres in the United States on Friday, tells the harrowing story of Sept. […]
By David Warren And Jamie Stengle The Associated Press IRVING, Texas A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday and got an invitation to the White House after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and suspended for coming to class with a homemade clock […]
By Paul J. Weber The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas As the U.S. and Russia reached the brink of nuclear war in 1962, President John F. Kennedy received top-secret intelligence from the CIA that a new warhead launcher was spotted in Cuba. Amid those grave concerns, the memo ends on a […]
