France’s most famous gangster on Sunday made a spectacular jailbreak with the help of three heavily-armed accomplices who landed in his jail in a helicopter and flew out with him on board. Redoine Faid was being visited by his brother in Réau prison in the Paris region when the men burst into the room on Sunday…

Vaudevillains in-ring promo The New Era overload continues as Aiden English boasts that leaving the New Day laying “singlehandedly” on RAW proves, once and for all, that the “New Era” reflects the “Bygone Era”, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. Simon Gotch then introduces English’s “pre-emptive eulogy” for the New Day’s tag team titles “in…

A controversial Korean laboratory has successfully cloned the world’s smallest living dog 49 times for a commercial breeder. ‘Miracle Milly,’ a six-year-old chihuahua who lives with her owner in Florida, weighed less than an ounce and could fit in a teaspoon when she was born.  The tiny pet, who entered the record books in 2013 and…

Submitted by Robert Sce and Nick Bishop from the BJCC Theater. The building wasn’t sold out by any stretch. – No Way Jose defeated Riddick Moss Good match and solid heel work from Moss. Jose won with the wind-up punch followed by a Cobra Clutch slam. – Ember Moon defeated Daria Berenato Slow match until the finish. Berenato worked the ground…

An Icelandic whaling company has been accused of slaughtering an endangered blue whale in a "deplorable act", provoking anger and condemnation from the international marine conservationist community.   Animal rights campaigners who photographed the whale’s carcass, say it was harpooned and killed off the west coast of Iceland on July 8.   Genetic sampling has…

And relax. Put away the baby blimp, take down the US flags. Donald Trump’s week-long romp around Europe is over.  There were fireworks in Brussels, a bombshell in Britain and a blossoming new relationship in Helsinki’s Presidential Palace.  With the US president safely ensconced back in the Oval Office, it is time to try and make…

Russian hackers have attacked a Swiss lab that analysed Novichok nerve agent samples from the Salisbury, according to local media.  The state-run Spiez laboratory near Bern was targeted by hackers believed to be linked to the Russian government ahead of a conference of chemical and biological warfare experts in September, the mass-market Swiss newspaper Blick…

500th Coaching Win – Neil Jennissen, Cambridge-Isanti 150th Win – Paul Fitterer, Randolph/Cannon Falls, 12th, 138lbs 125th Win – Logan Saltou, Rochester John Marshall, 11th, 132 lbs 100th Win – Cory Flaata, Park, 12th, 170 lbs 100th Win – Josh Tarum, St. Thomas Academy, 12th, 106 lbs 100th Win – Nate Tesch, Glencoe-Lester Prairie, 12th, 152…

Former Northfield coach and MWCA Dave Bartelma Hall of Fame member Howard Carl Peterson, born May 2, 1928, passed away Friday, January 2 after a prolonged battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. He is survived by his children Debra DeWolfe (Paul), John (Julie), Sue Mertens (Troy) and David (Lynae), seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded…

By Nick Hansen, Marshall Independent MARSHALL ­- Tom Caron’s road to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame started in an ice cream truck. The former Schwan’s employee is being inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an Outstanding American for his accomplished business career. Caron used the principles he learned as a wrestler…