Fort Frances Times Online Edition - March 6, 2018

On Thursday shortly before 6:30 p.m., members of the Kenora OPP responded to a 9-1-1 call of an unknown male intruder in a residence in the Rideout area of Kenora.

Police attended and were advised the home owner had arrived home and found the door to the residence had been forced open and the suspect was inside.

When confronted by the home owner, the male fled the scene.

The Revco Renegades pulled out an impressive upset during their Fort Frances Men's Basketball League semi-final against the second-place RBC Lions on Tuesday night at the Fort High gym.

Steve Windels of the Revco Renegades went up to put a basket home during his team's 85-35 upset win of the second-place RBC Lions last Tuesday night during the Fort Frances Men's Basketball League's first semi-final. Windels chipped in 16 points to help send third-place Revco into tonight's final against Sunset Landscaping at Fort High.

Monica Sus, left, Heather Johnson, and Mary Martinson took a brief break late yesterday afternoon from getting ready for the grand-opening of the new Fort Frances Women's Centre, which is set for this Thursday (March 8). The public is urged to drop by anytime from 10 a..m.-6 p.m. and check out what the centre (located at 330 Scott St.) has to offer.

AJAX, Ont.—While consistently dismissing critics who accuse her of cashing in on her family name, Caroline Mulroney has recruited her famous father to shore up support as she fights to seize the reins of Ontario's Opposition.

TORONTO—A decision by police officers in Thunder Bay, Ont. to rule out foul play just hours after the body of an indigenous man was found floating in a river was the result of a grossly-inadequate investigation tainted by racism, an independent review has determined.

OTTAWA—Right about now, the kings of the butterfly world are emerging from hibernation in Mexico looking for love and ready to make more butterflies.

But scientists said the number of monarch butterflies that will start their annual, 5,000-km migration north to Canadian gardens and wild flower patches this summer is down sharply thanks to extreme weather last fall.

OTTAWA—The government of Alberta is being lambasted in a review of Canada's justice system as the only province to keep secret the number of indigenous people it has locked up over the last five years.

MINNEAPOLIS — General Mills announced a deal Tuesday to create South Dakota’s largest organic crop farm as the food giant works to secure enough organic ingredients to meet growing consumer demand worldwide.

REGINA—Team Canada's Brad Gushue showed the form that won him last year's Tim Hortons Brier last night, edging Mike McEwen's wild-card rink 6-5 in Draw 8 of Canada's men's curling championship.

Gushue, from St. John's N.L., came into the game as the skip with the most Brier wins of all time at 114, and he used that experience to capitalize on McEwen's mistakes.

BUFFALO, N.Y.—Don't tell Jason Pominville and the Buffalo Sabres they have nothing to play for.

For a team all but mathematically out of playoff contention, the Sabres continued making a dent in in the Eastern Conference playoff race with a 5-3 win against their cross-border and Atlantic Division rival Toronto Maple Leafs last night.

BANGKOK — A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un grins, just on the verge of a belly laugh, as he grasps the hand of a visiting South Korean official. He sits at a wide conference table and beams as the envoys look on deferentially. He smiles broadly again at dinner, his wife at his side, the South Koreans seeming to hang on his every word.

LEWISTON, Idaho — Five types of apples, once thought to be extinct, have been rediscovered in northern Idaho and eastern Washington.

The Lewiston Tribune newspaper reported Monday that “apple detective” David Benscoter located the trees growing near a butte in the rolling hills of the vast Palouse agricultural area.

SALISBURY, England — Britain will respond “appropriately and robustly” if Russia’s involvement is established in the case of an ex-Russian spy who fell ill after coming into contact with an “unknown substance” in southern England, the U.K. foreign secretary said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON—It's pretty extraordinary for people in their 80s and 90s to keep the same sharp memory as someone several decades younger, and now scientists are peeking into the brains of these “superagers” to uncover their secret.

The work is the flip side of the disappointing hunt for new drugs to fight or prevent Alzheimer's disease.

COLUMBIA, Md. — Please God, give me salvation and a car.

That prayer may have been uttered by more than a few people at a Maryland church on Sunday. That’s because Destiny Church in Columbia handed out five used cars to demonstrate God’s goodness and to attract new members.