Fort Frances Time Online Edition - April 17, 2017

An Iowa man who police suspect shot and killed his girlfriend Saturday night was arrested at the border here yesterday.

Abraham Roberts, 38, was stopped in International Falls and taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials who recognized his car from a press release issued by the police department in Johnston, Iowa.

The team results, as a whole, didn't have them near the top of the charts.

But plenty of individual members of the Muskie track-and-field squad established themselves as credible contenders at the season-opening Bronco Booster Track & Field Invite varsity meet Thursday at Falls High School.

Muskie Ben Olsen sailed over the bar successfully on this attempt en route to a fourth-place finish in the boys' high jump event at the Bronco Booster Track & Field Invite varsity meet on Thursday at Falls High School.

Jillian Kaun from “House of Olde Shambles” showed off her new, reclaimed, and handcrafted home decor at the Easter Market held Saturday (April 15) at the Copper River Inn here. The market ran from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and featured more than 30 local vendors selling everything from arts and crafts to meats, baking, and flowers.

FFHS student volunteer Cassidy Martin, left, handed treats to Sasha and Miranda Lowry outside of Curvy Chick on Saturday during the fourth-annual “Easter Egg-Stravaganza.” Hosted by the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club and The Shops on Scott, the event drew nearly 400 youngsters downtown, where they picked up maps at the museum courtyard and went from business to business to collect candy.

Nearly a year after the massive wildfire that devastated Fort McMurray, Alta., a climate scientist says there may be more forest fires in Canada this summer.

“If the forecast's right that it's a warmer than normal summer, we'll probably have more fires,” said Mike Flannigan, a meteorologist and professor in the University of Alberta's renewable resources department.

KASHECHEWAN, Ont.—An evacuation due to flooding fears is underway at a remote First Nation community in Northern Ontario.

Area MP Charlie Angus says 325 people from Kashechewan First Nation flew to Kapuskasing, Ont. yesterday and another 200 are expected to leave the community today as ice breaks up north of the community along the Albany River.

OTTAWA—Young scientists often don't get research grants early enough, delaying careers and stunting the growth of Canada's information-based economy, Science minister Kirsty Duncan suggested yesterday in response to a report on the state of science in Canada.

TORONTO—Some teens say their likelihood of using weed hasn't changed since the Liberal government announced details of its legalization plan—though they say it's made them more aware of information on both sides of the debate.

TORONTO—Ontario Finance minister Charles Sousa is giving strong hints the government's much-anticipated house affordability package will include measures targeting real estate speculators, or “property scalpers” as he calls them.

Rabbit rescue organizations are preparing for an influx of surrendered and stray bunnies as Easter weekend comes to an end.

Kaylie Ngo, president of London, Ont.-based Hoppy Hearts, said the peak season for her rescue starts in June and July—and much of the volume stems from bunnies that were hastily-purchased as Easter gifts for kids.

ITUNA, Sask.—It's about as Canadian as a cattle drive can get.

Ranchers northeast of Regina are shaking their heads after watching a herd of curious bovines slowly follow a beaver across one of their pastures.

Adrienne Ivey and her husband, Aaron, were out checking their 150 cattle near Ituna on Good Friday when they noticed something odd.

NEW YORK—Montreal Canadiens' coach Claude Julien happily will take the result of his team's efforts.

“I thought it was a really good road game. It wasn't mistake-free and no games are,” noted Julien after the Canadiens' 3-1 win over the N.Y. Rangers in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference quarter-final series last night.

BOSTON—The Chicago Bulls waited until the final night of the regular season to cement their spot in the post-season.

Jimmy Butler made sure the wait for a playoff victory was a short one.

Butler had 30 points and nine rebounds as the Bulls outlasted top-seeded Boston 106-102 in Game 1 yesterday on an emotional night for grieving Celtics' star Isaiah Thomas.

TORONTO—The Toronto Blue Jays lost yet another game and yet another player to injury yesterday as starting pitcher J.A. Happ exited in the fifth inning with left elbow soreness before the Baltimore Orioles slugged their way to a dominant 11-4 win.

It's another discouraging blow for the Blue Jays (2-10), whose awful April represents the worst start in franchise history.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.—Wesley Bryan remembers pestering players with a lot of crazy questions at Harbour Town Golf Links as he followed father George III's only appearance at the RBC Heritage in 2004.

“I was probably the most annoying 14-year-old there was,” Bryan noted.

Once a pesky teen, Bryan is now a PGA Tour winner.

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y.—A giraffe calf is nursing strongly and his mother is recovering “perfectly,” officials with Animal Adventure Park said yesterday after a morning veterinarian check with the newborn.

“April” gave birth to a healthy male calf Saturday at the privately-owned Animal Adventure Park before an online audience of more than a million viewers.

VATICAN CITY — On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the “latest vile” attack on civilians in Syria.

CLEVELAND — An Ohio man claimed to be angry at a woman when he shot and killed an elderly passerby Sunday afternoon while streaming the murder on Facebook. Police urged the suspect to turn himself in, but he remained on the loose into the night.

MEETOTAMULLA, Sri Lanka — Rescuers on Monday were digging through heaps of mud and trash that collapsed onto a clutch of homes near a garbage dump outside Sri Lanka’s capital, killing at least 29 people and possibly burying dozens more.

KABUL — Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the U.S. is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb “an immense atrocity against the Afghan people.”

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s main opposition party urged the country’s electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to the nation’s president, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities.

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. — April the giraffe’s calf is nursing strongly and his mother is recovering “perfectly,” said officials with Animal Adventure Park on Sunday after a morning veterinarian check with the newborn.

April gave birth to a healthy male calf Saturday at the privately owned Animal Adventure Park before an online audience of more than a million viewers.

PANMUNJOM, Korea, Republic Of — Viewing his adversaries in the distance, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence travelled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the U.S. and South Korea with its nuclear ambitions, “the era of strategic patience is over.”

Let’s say you dream of wanting to make a very special dessert for mom on Mother’s Day but don’t really have the time or the expertise. Here’s a cheating version of Baked Alaska. Sure it’s antique ‚Äî is there any other two-word phrase in English as capable of teleporting us in an instant to the dining room of a cruise ship in the 1950s? ‚Äî but it’s also delicious.

If you are a mother: Happy Mother’s Day! Please tear out this page (or print, or forward, depending on how woman-on-the-go you are) and put it somewhere your family will find it. Now, stop reading or you’ll ruin the surprise.

If you are a kid, father, or person who loves a mom: it’s almost Mother’s Day. Do you have a plan? Keep reading, because you do now.