Niagara Falls jumper identified as 30-year-old Canadian

The man who jumped off Niagara Falls yesterday has been identified as a 30 year old Canadian man, who was trying to commit suicide. He went into the water and was swept over the edge without any resistance, but hit the bottom of the Horseshoe Falls and survived. He is...

Who has survived going over Niagara Falls?

A man went over Niagara Falls today on the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side, but he survived the plunge in to the icy water below. The man is currently in hospital with hypothermia and a head injury. As it is...

Plane Crashes in Buffalo, N.Y. - 50 Dead

BUFFALO - A small passenger plane with as many as 50 passengers on board has crashed into a home near Buffalo, New York.  CNN is announcing they it was Continental flight 3407 traveling from Newark to...

Plane Crash Kills 49 outside Buffalo, NY

New York state police said a 50-passenger commuter plane has crashed into a home in suburban Buffalo. Fire officials said there were no survivors. Authorities said Continental Airlines Flight 3407 was operated by...

All good things must and inevitable do come to an end . . .

All good things must and inevitable do come to an end . . . this will hopefully will be the lesson learned by the young men of the Ontario Hockey Leagues Brampton Battalion following last nights loss to the...

Is sleep healthy, or hurtful?

Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,Balm of hurt minds,...

A history runs through it: press photography in Niagara

(St. Catharines ON) A new museum exhibit and book publication are the first documents to surface from a collection of over half a million press photographs taken of the Niagara region over the last 70 years. ...

Listeria takes two in Niagara

Listeria takes two in Niagara : Links to Maple Leaf outbreak to be confirmed   (Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada) Two recent deaths in Niagara caused by listeria bacteria may be linked to a national outbreak that has been traced to food products that originated in a...

"I Shook Hands With Li" says Teen Who Bought the Bus Beheader's Laptop

It has been revealed that a Manitoba teenager shook hands with Greyhound Bus maniac Vince Li just hours before Li's heinous alleged crime.  "He seemed a straight, regular guy" the teen said.   " ...

Full steam again (comment)

Could the steam engine be on its way back? The romance of the steam train has never gone but is the old technology with a few tweaks possibly the new technology?"In 1946 Paul Kiefer, chief mechanical engineer of...

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...

Nominate New7Wonders of Nature Candidates

" www.new7wonders.com The new New7Wonders of Nature campaign was launched at the end of the Declaration gala on 07.07.07. Since then, organizes have received input from more than half a million people around the planet, and hundreds of natural sites have been nominated....

Niagara Opens Hoops Season With Many Questions

Athens, GA (Nov 21, 2007) - Last year was a season that, in some ways, Coach Joe Mihalich and the returning Niagara University Purple Eagles (2-0, 0-0 MAAC) would like to put behind them. A beatdown of a baseball...

Farmers losing fight against urban sprawl

Even with  British Columbia's own Agricultural Land Reserve legislation in place to protect our shrinking farmlands from development of sorts, we cannot place our full trust in that.  BC Transportation...

Not your average "fat farm"

Not your average “fat farm” © By Mike Keenan The old European spas in Baden-Baden, Germany, Bath, England and Hungary were once called "fat farms." They focused on losing weight. Modern spas...

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