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Articles from the February 13, 2014 edition


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  • Iced-up Lake Superior draws thousands of winter tourists

    Ralph Ansami|Feb 13, 2014

    Pile it up and they will come. In a brutally cold winter, Lake Superior's ice formations continue to attract thousands of tourists and local residents, from Bayfield to Little Girl's Point. An estimated 4,000 people have been walking along the Lake Superior ice to the sea caves near Bayfield every weekend. Likewise, hundreds of people have been carefully edging out on the blue ice at Little Girl's Point on a typical weekend day. Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce director Dorrene O'Donnell told...

  • Don't leave chocolate to the end - infuse the meal

    Feb 13, 2014

    By ALISON LADMAN Associated Press A box of chocolates? A slice of chocolate cake? So very been-there-done-that. This Valentine's Day, up the ante with your expression of love via chocolate. Rather than simply end the meal with a sweet hit of cocoa, why not use it as the inspiration for the entire menu? Start with slices of soft goat cheese sprinkled with a blend of unsweetened cocoa powder and chili powder, then topped with a Peppadew pepper. Then move on to our flank steak rubbed with ground...

  • Hurley Students enjoy Mt. Zion

    Feb 13, 2014

  • Sinkhole swallows cars at Corvette Museum in Kentucky

    Feb 13, 2014

    BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - It was a sight to make a classic car lover weep: A gaping sinkhole opened beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky and swallowed eight prized cars like they were toys, piling them in a heap amid loose dirt and concrete fragments. It happened early Wednesday morning while the attraction dedicated to the classic American sports car was closed to visitors. "They're all just kind of nose down in the bottom of the hole," said Western Kentucky University engineering...

  • Hundreds of marijuana plants seized

    Feb 13, 2014

    WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - Marathon County drug agents have confiscated more than $2 million in marijuana plants in what they say is the largest drug seizure in the county. Sheriff's officials searched a home in Wausau and another in rural Athens after getting a tip from a local delivery company about a suspicious package. Authorities say more than 700 marijuana plants were found at the rural Athens home as well as growing equipment and processed marijuana. Agents seized cash and drugs at the Wausau...