Body found is Mercyhurst College Ballerina

A student on her way home for Thanksgiving holidays wound up lifeless in a swampy patch of an 1200-acre park in the Syracuse, NY area. The victim is thought to be missing ballerina, Jenni-Lyn Watson, a Mercyhurst...

God's Gift Achiuwa Star Player For Erie College Basketball

Erie Community College Basketball Is Hoping God's Gift Achiuwa Lives Up To His Name And Maybe Be Better Than God ShammgodLeBron James maybe King but God's Gift Achiuwa is, well, God's Gift to basketball - at least Division Three basketball in Western New York.God's Gift...

Who Does that? SlumDog Millionaire Saga Continues

 A newspaper (Tabloid is more appropriate) — owned by News International Ltd., the main British subsidiary of News Corp., which also owns "Slumdog" distributor Fox Searchlight Picture- thinks of doing a remarkable stint operation and puts it into play and the rest is...

USA, Police Taser and Kill A Black Man and laugh about it.

Only in America can a black man be tasered and killed, and police laugh about it on tape. This tape is disgusting. We need to talk about torture in America against Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans http://tinyurl.com/cc3gm2

Still Searching

"Still searching By KARA MURPHYkara.murphy@timesnews.com Published: December 29. 2008 12:45AM David Lohr of Albion is involved in investigative research and missing persons. Lohr volunteers with EquuSearch, a group of volunteers to look for missing persons, and also...

Himanshu murder – who’s to blame?

warning Graphic pictures Latest:By AMRISH bAAGRIDEHRADUN, 29 Dec: A man loved her from the depth of his heart, but she reportedly killed him with the help of a new boyfriend. It was saddening to report the murder...

Hilbert mourns hit-and-run victim

"Hilbert mourns hit-and-run victim By Jay Rey News Staff Reporter The students gathered around a young flowering pear tree, freshly planted next to a pond, in memory of...

Roughly 40 Residents Evacuated After Truck Carrying Chemicals Overturns

This is my hometown. I didnt live too far from where this took place. There is some houses and then the school just to the right (does not show in pic)."About 40 residents in the Erie County Village of Alden have...

Ontario man dies after being hit by Taser

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA report released recently about the R.C.M.P. recommended officers with less than 5 years experience should not be given a taser.  One assumes the Ontario...

Cyberspace Is Not A Playground for Sex Offenders

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo believes "The playground is in cyberspace,"...children now head to the internet after school---followed, in some cases, by sex offenders". However, thanks to...

Is Cancer Cure Two to Three Years Out?

Seven months ago, I published a post about cancer researcher John Kanzius who had found a way to burn salt water (See Researcher Discovers Way to Burn Salt Water). Today, I offer an update that comes in the form of an article published at GoErie.com in Erie, Pa. Here’s...

NYS Attorney General Cuomo: "The taxpayers have been ripped off enough,"...

"ALBANY — Lawyers doing work for schools in Erie and Niagara counties have been subpoenaed by State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo as part of a statewide investigation into possibly fraudulent employment...

$60M to shoot a satellite?

A missile fired from a Navy warship on Wednesday night shot down a U.S. spy satellite that had been malfunctioning 130 miles above the Earth. The price tag for the endeavor has been pegged at upward of $30 million and even as high as $60 million, depending on the news report....

Weird -- and Tragic -- Weather Week for US

As I write this from NYC it's a near-record-setting 62 degrees Fahrenheit; it feels a little ominous but I'm not complaining. Elsewhere in the US, though, the weather's taken a turn for the grim this...

Canadians Shopping In The US Held For Five Hours At Border

Not only that, but the border guard basically told them off. This high loonie value is really throwing things for a loop."A group of Canadians say they were chastised and forced to wait for hours in a bus at a border crossing between Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Erie, Ont.,...

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