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[steelepike]

Lord Stanley's Cup lost?

Hockey officials and the New Jersey Devils are breathing a big, collective sigh of relief right now.

The Stanley Cup, the most famous trophy in all of sports, was missing for at least 24 hours last week, the Toronto Sun reported on its Web site Monday.

Vincent Lukac, father-in-law of Devils forward Jiri Bicek, led a welcoming committee of 15,000 fans in the main square in Kosice, Slovakia, for the Cup's arrival on Thursday, according to The Sun.

Two Hockey Hall of Fame officials responsible for escorting the Cup arrived on Thursday. The Cup itself did not.

And panic ensued, according to The Sun.

"From what we understand, the Cup was supposed to have been flown from the United States via Toronto to Vienna, then from the Austrian capital to Kosice," Zdeno Simonides, editor-in-chief of the Sports Daily in Bratislava (Slovakia), told The Sun. "Apparently, the travel arrangements from the U.S. to Toronto were too tight, allowing the two guards to make the transfer, but not the Stanley Cup box on four wheels."

The organizers figured the Cup was left in Vienna. However, according to The Sun, Austrian airport officials said they had not seen it.

Disaster -- but not high anxiety -- was averted when the Cup was located and finally arrived in Kosice (from Vienna) on Friday.

The delay wreaked some havoc on the Cup schedule. The Cup is supposed to stay with each member of the champion Devils for a 24-hour period. To save time, Richard Smehlik reportedly drove approximately 250 miles from Ostrava to pick up the Stanley Cup. Later the Cup made its way to Trebic in the Czech Republic, so Patrik Elias could have his picture taken with the prize.

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by steelepike
[B]The Stanley Cup, the most famous trophy in all of sports, was missing for at least 24 hours last week, the Toronto Sun reported on its Web site Monday.
[B]

I dunno bout this. The Soccer World Cup trophy prob. take this honor.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Man admits he started massive B.C. wildfire


CAROL HARRINGTON and GWENDOLYN RICHARDS
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail


McLure, B.C. and Vancouver — Mike Barre told his neighbours right away that his cigarette had started a fire that was quickly getting out of control. He told the local fire inspector, and his lawyer has been worrying for days about insurance claims.

In an interview Monday, the 50-year-old unemployed prison guard and volunteer firefighter identified himself to the rest of the country as the person who accidentally started a blaze that forced thousands from their homes.

Mr. Barre said that after the massive wildfire started, he rushed from door to door, frantically trying to help with the start of the evacuation.

"I was a basket case for a while," Mr. Barre said in an interview at his house, which was not among the 65 homes destroyed in the blaze.

"I couldn't do it after a while," he said of the door-knocking. "It just got too emotional."

Mr. Barre wouldn't say what exactly he was doing on July 30, when the fire started in the backyard of his acreage at the foot of a forested mountain in McLure, a sprawling, unincorporated community of 285 people.

"I feel terrible, beyond what words can say," said the married father of a young girl.

A volunteer with the town's fire department, Mr. Barre said he admitted to Steve Grimaldi, a fire inspector with the B.C. Ministry of Forests, that he accidentally set the blaze.

"I told him the first night of the fire that I did it."

When asked whether he started the fire with a cigarette, Mr. Barre answered, "Yeah, but it was an accident."

Kamloops RCMP last week said preliminary findings from the fire investigation indicate the blaze was accidental.

B.C. Forest Service fire-information officer Steve Bachop said it is rare for someone to admit culpability in starting a forest fire, even though Mr. Barre said what happened was an accident.

"In terms of someone coming forward like that, it's sort of new for us," Mr. Bachop said. "People cause fires, and when you consider the damage they do, it's important for us to investigate the cause of all fires."

As Barriere residents mopped up the mess yesterday from the massive forest fire, which skirted its way around the small community in British Columbia's interior, firefighters got a boost from Mother Nature.

Co-operative weather and lower temperatures are bolstering efforts to contain the McLure-Barriere fire, which has grown to more than 19,000 hectares.

"We're not seeing the same extreme fire behaviour as we did last week when it was so hot and dry," fire-information officer Kirk Hughes said. "We've been able to make a lot of progress on this."

More than 800 people are battling the fire, using 122 pieces of heavy equipment and 12 helicopters. So far, about 50 per cent of the fire has been contained since it began on July 30.

Mr. Barre's neighbour, Cheryl Land, said he came running down the hill behind their homes that afternoon, yelling that he started a fire.

As smoke started billowing from the bush, Ms. Land said, her husband, Chris, ran up the hill with a shovel to throw dirt on the fire, which had started in a 10-centimetre-deep bed of tinder-dry cedar needles.

Mr. Barre was installing a satellite dish in the back of his small acreage just before the fire started, Ms. Land said.

The blaze quickly grew, forcing officials to evacuate more than a dozen homes. Eventually, emergency officials said, up to 8,500 people from McLure north to Barriere had to flee.

The village of Louis Creek, just south of Barriere, was almost destroyed. The fire, still only half-contained, was estimated at nearly 200 square kilometres yesterday.

Mr. Barre said he's aware that townsfolk have mixed feelings about him accidentally starting the fire.

He said he is not sure whether his colleagues in the fire department will want to continue working with him.

Mr. Barre's lawyer, John Hogg, said his client is worried that insurance companies that will pay out millions of dollars in damage claims to residents and businesses may try to recoup the losses from Mr. Barre.

"There's no percentage gained if someone tries to take the boots to him, so to speak," Mr. Hogg said from Kamloops.

So far, damage estimates to properties in the Kamloops-area fire total $8.2-million, including the destruction of 39 houses, 26 trailer homes, 99 sheds and barns, as well as house contents. It doesn't include the Louis Creek sawmill, other businesses and hundreds of gutted vehicles.

Mr. Hogg said that the fact his client is openly telling everyone his story speaks volumes about the man. "He's got a social conscience; he's got a heart."

Stew Geoghegan, whose house and trailer park in Louis Creek burned to the ground, said he bumped into Mr. Barre on Sunday at the local general store.

"I told him it was a stupid thing to do," said Mr. Geoghegan, who had just two of seven trailers covered by insurance. "But there's no sense in feeling bad about him. The poor guy is beating himself enough."

Donna Morgan, who was removed from her back-country acreage and then helped fight the fire, said some people fear that Mr. Barre will commit suicide.

But Mr. Barre said he hasn't contemplated it.

"I wouldn't do that. I have a five-year-old daughter," he said.

One firefighter said he has trouble imagining what Mr. Barre must be going through. "He must just feel awful."

Mr. Bachop said forest-fire prosecutions do not happen often, pointing to charges arising from the 1994 Grimaldi fire in Penticton as the last he can remember.

In that case, 21-year-old Jeremy Kraiger, the son of a Penticton firefighter, was sentenced to six months on electric monitoring after pleading guilty to five counts of arson. The fire destroyed 18 homes and 5,500 hectares of trees and bush. The court was told that Mr. Kraiger suffered from a mental disorder.

Meanwhile, fire crews have begun cleaning up after the Strawberry Hill and Cedar Hills fires, which are fully contained. Crews are working their way in from the perimeter, digging down and soaking hot spots so the fire can't spread through the trees' root systems.

"Because our drought conditions have been so high, the fires will burn deep. If there's any woody material — roots, stumps — it'll burn deep down into the soil. So it has to be dug up and extinguished," Mr. Hughes, the information officer, said.

Firefighters are also using a helicopter with an infrared scanner to detect hidden hot spots.

The Strawberry Hill fire that forced residents from Rayleigh (just outside Kamloops), Heffley Creek and nearby rural areas to leave their homes grew to 5,731 hectares before crews managed to contain the blaze. The Cedar Hills fire stretched for 1,620 hectares.

Carol Harrington is a Canadian Press reporter. Gwendolyn Richards is a reporter for The Globe and Mail. With a report from Rod Mickleburgh


Here's the link: http://sympatico.globeandmail.com/se...1.sympatico.ca

[Kristin AGD]

BREAKING NEWS

Aug. 14 — A major power blackout hit several major cities in the Northeast, the Midwest and Canada late Thursday afternoon, knocking out electricity to millions of people in New York, Toronto, Detroit, Cleveland and elsewhere.



FEDERAL POWER REGULATORS did not identify the power plant, but CNN reported that a fire had been reported at a transformer at the Consolidated Edison plant in New York City. Most of the affected cities are linked on the same regional power grid.
Officials of the Homeland Security Department said there were no indications that the blackout was the work of terrorists.
The evening rush hour was just beginning in the East, and NBC correspondents described scenes of pandemonium as thousands of New Yorkers streamed into streets where traffic signals were not operating.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it was crippled. Buses, trains and subways were not running. WNBC-TV reported that fire crews were heading down into the subways to check on thousands of stranded passengers.
Jim Tsumi of Riverdale, N.Y., was sitting on the shoulder of Highway 495 leading to the Lincoln Tunnel.
“I got no hope getting home tonight,” he said, pointing across the river at Manhattan, where the West Side Highway and a two-mile traffic jam were clearly visible. “It’s like 9/11 again. I hope this is nothing big.”

The blackout stretched from Hartford, Conn., and Syracuse, N.Y., west to Detroit and Cleveland and north to northwest Ontario. The entire city of Toronto was affected, MSNBC television reported.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that its facilities were operating normally on backup power and that planes in the air were in no danger. FAA officials told NBC News that individual airport terminals could be affected, however, and Detroit Metropolitan Airport was temporarily closed.
Much of New England, however, including all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, southern Vermont and eastern Connecticut, were unaffected, as were other areas of Canada, including Montreal and Quebec City.

[bafromkc]

This article is from foxnews.com foxnews.com


Tuesday, August 19, 2003

A huge explosion that may have been the work of a homicide bomber ripped through U.N. headquarters in Baghdad Tuesday, killing several people and injuring scores of others

A U.S. officer said at least 10 people were killed, Reuters reported, in what the U.N. Security Council (search) called a "terrorist attack."

The Coalition Press Information Center (search) said a large truck bomb - possibly a cement mixer - caused the blast around 4:30 p.m. local time.

"The explosion was caused by a massive truck bomb," Bernard Kerik, the senior U.S. law enforcement official in Baghdad and former New York City police commissioner, told reporters at the scene. "We have evidence to suggest it could have been a suicide attack."

U.N. headquarters in New York said at least one person was killed and 32 injured as of 10 a.m. ET, but that number was expected to increase.

The blast occurred at the Canal Hotel (search), home to the United Nations mission in Iraq. U.N. workers lived and worked in the building when international weapons inspectors were scouring Iraq for evidence of weapons of mass destruction before the war began. The cement mixer apparently drove through a heavy fence and exploded in the lobby.

"My house shook like it did during the bombing at the start of the war," a resident in the area said.

American Black Hawk (search) helicopters were flying toward the scene as Humvees rolled in. Black smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air.

About one-third of the buildings appeared to be destroyed. Iraqis said the blast blew out windows as far as a mile away; several cars were destroyed.

Acting Security Council President Faysaal Kendad (search) condemned the bombing, saying such attacks "cannot break the will of the international community in its efforts to help the people of Iraq."

"These attacks are unacceptable and they [terrorists] must be brought to justice," Kendad added.

U.N. workers told Fox News there were at least 150 workers inside the building. At nearby al-Kindi Hospital, Dr. Munas Amer said at least two people, both Iraqis, were killed and at least 25 other people were brought in for treatment.

Fox News' Dan Springer, reporting from Baghdad, said one entire corner of the two-story hotel has been blown away. It appeared as if the explosion was centered on the building's lobby.

Emergency workers from a nearby National Spinal Cord Injury Center, which also suffered damage, were going through the rubble, looking for survivors and victims.

"What I'm looking at is a scene of immense devastation," Springer reported.

The U.S. military said at least nine people were wounded as of 9:30 ET. The U.N. spokesman in Baghdad, Salim Lone, said dozens were wounded. Fred Eckhard, the U.N. Spokesperson in New York, said he couldn't confirm any deaths.

U.N. Iraq representative Sergio Vieira de Mello (search), one of the highest-ranking officials at the United Nations, was injured.

"Sergio Vieira de Mello's office was destroyed and Sergio himself was hurt," said Eckhard.

A senior UNICEF official also was seriously wounded in the blast, U.N. officials said.

Sources at the State Department told Fox News: "It is too early to know if any Americans are among the casualties. A U.S. consular official is on the scene."

President Bush, who was playing golf in Waco, Texas, was informed of the bombing and cut short his golf game at the 12th hole.

"He decided to return to the ranch to monitor events related to the bombing," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

Pentagon officials say they are monitoring the situation with updates from U.S. Central Command (search).

A car was seen ablaze outside the collapsed corner of the building. Many injured were on the scene, which was secured by the U.S. Army and Iraqi police.

One wounded man had a yard-long, inch-thick aluminum rod driven into his face just below his right eye. He was able to speak and identified himself as a security consultant for the International Monetary Fund, saying he had just arrived in the country over the weekend.

Tuesday's explosion seemed to be more powerful than the car bomb that rocked the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad (search)on Aug. 7, which killed at least 11 people and left more than 50 wounded.

The latest attack was the latest in a string of incidents at so-called "soft targets," or lightly guarded civilian and diplomatic facilities.

Oil and water pipelines also came under what is thought to be sabotage attacks this week.

"Our response has to be to show the strength of the United Nations in these circumstances," Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Mexico's ambassador to the U.N., said from New York. "An act of terrorism… simply indicates that terrorists respect no boundaries."

Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, just Tuesday morning was warning against the flood of potential terrorists coming in to Iraq from neighboring countries to boost opposition forces.

U.S. administrators and the military "do believe that there are professional terrorists, foreign regime leaders … coming in from the border of Iraq," Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who met with U.S. military leaders in Iraq earlier in the day, told Fox News. "But we cannot cut and run. We must stay here and build the security of this country ... and start helping the people of Iraq recover."

She added: "The escalation of terrorists attacks are of great concern to everyone,"

Other lawmakers agreed the latest bombing is evidence of the threat that still plagues post-regime reconstruction efforts.

"I think what this shows is an increase in the level of org. of the opposition we face," Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., told Fox News. "We have to assume a further escalation of violence against coalition forces and allies."

"There seems to me rather stark evidence in the heart of Baghdad that terrorists are afoot, even Al Qaeda afoot, in the provinces of Iraq," added Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., told Fox News.

The United Nations distributes humanitarian aid and is developing programs aimed at boosting Iraq's emerging free press, justice system and monitoring of human rights.

The United States failed to win the backing of the U.N. Security Council before it invaded Iraq on March 20, and since major fighting ended in April, the United States has been reluctant to let the United Nations play a large role in rebuilding the country.

Fox News military analyst, Maj. Bob Bevelacqua, said the bombing is a clear example of terror groups sending a message: "if you're going to assist the United States, we're going to come after you."

Amb. Dennis Ross, Fox News foreign affairs analyst, argued the message was directed at the Iraqi people.

"What they're [terrorists] trying to convey right now is that nothing is going to go back to normal - that those who are determined to prevent the United States from succeeding will continue, will persevere … every time something is done to build infrastructure, it will be destroyed."

The Canal Hotel operates more as an office building than a hotel. The cafeteria is a popular place for humanitarian workers and journalists to meet.

The three-floor building houses the offices of most U.N. agencies with the exception of UNICEF and the Food and Agriculture Organization.

foxnews.com

[Schmeer]

I have been watching this coverage of the bombing of Fox News and its so sad...they keep playing this tape from inside the bombing and this woman is screaming.....ugh...I am glad that Fox is covering this so well though as I am interested in knowing how things turn out...thanks for posting that article.

[bafromkc]

I'm chillin at home now just flicking through the channels and I stopped on Fox News for a second because they were showing pictures of a duck shot with an arrow in Salt Lake City. It was sad but it looked funny at the same time. Who in the hell would shoot a duck with an arrow? What a jack@ss.

[Tom Earp]

bafromkc,

is the kc, Kansas city area?????

Let me know!

A few GCers here!

[bafromkc]

No its not. I take it you are from Kansas City thouhg?

Did anyone see Anna "Pornokova" on Fox and Friends this morning? She is really hot.

[DeltaSigStan]

Inmate Kills Pedophile Priest In Prison


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...rch_geoghan_dc

[Tom Earp]

bafromkc,

that is a trueism, from K C Ks.

[Lady Pi Phi]

It's an old news story but I hadn't heard until now.



Link: http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/08/st...egnancy.tests/




NEW YORK (CNN) -- School administrators forced several eighth-grade students to undergo tests for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases after they attended a party, the New York Civil Liberties Union claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday with federal court in Manhattan.

"Our jaws just dropped when we heard what went on," Anna Schissel, an attorney with the NYCLU, told CNN. "This is such an invasion of privacy and due process issues."

Schissel said her clients -- 13- and 14-year-old female students -- skipped school April 11 to attend a party in the same Washington Heights neighborhood as their school, Intermediate School 164.

The clients, along with nine other students, were called into the principal's office soon afterward and told they had to be tested for pregnancy, STDs and HIV, and that they were suspended from school until they could provide doctor's notes with test results.

The principal suspected there might have been sexual activity at the party, Schissel said.

New York Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said he hadn't seen the lawsuit, which names the school's principal, Lavern Reid, and administrator Vera Hamburger as defendants.

"As in any lawsuit, there are two sides," Klein told reporters Tuesday. "Different people have different views of what happened and we will respond appropriately in court."

A Board of Education spokesman said the board would "never defend a policy where kids were not allowed to enter a school because they did not undergo these tests."

The Board of Education has been in touch with the defendants about the allegations, the spokesman said.

The 13-year-old plaintiff released a statement through her attorney which reads: "I knew that I was being punished, so I didn't think I had a choice when the principal told me I had to get all these medical tests, even though it didn't make sense to me. The tests were painful and embarrassing, and the principal told me that I couldn't even go to my regular clinic, that I had to go to a doctor I'd never met before. The whole experience was awful and really upsetting."

Dr. David Bell, an adolescent medicine specialist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, saw several of the students seeking notes.

"When you force teens to undergo intrusive medical procedures as punishment, you alienate them from the health care system and health providers they need to be able to rely on and trust in order to protect their well-being," Bell said.

No one at IS 164 could be reached for comment.

[Schmeer]

This is breaking news and I am watching information on this at Fox News right now:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95721,00.html

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel launched two separate strikes on Gaza City (search) targets on Tuesday, killing one and wounding at least 23 people.

An Israeli helicopter fired rockets at a car of a Hamas fugitive driving north of the city, destroying the vehicle. One person died and 16 bystanders were wounded in that strike, doctors said.

The passengers of the car, a small red Renault, apparently escaped.

Earlier, an Israeli gunboat shelled an area north of Gaza City, wounding seven people, witnesses said. The target of that attack was not immediately known.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers disguised as Arabs raided a West Bank (search) hospital before dawn Tuesday and snatched two wounded Palestinian militants from their beds -- one of them wanted for planning a homicide bombing.

Troops staging an arrest sweep in this Palestinian city jumped from the back of a truck and poured into Raffidiyeh Hospital from two sides. They declared a lock-down, confining nurses and doctors to a few rooms, and broke down an electrically operated door to the Intensive Care Unit.

Soldiers armed with M-16 rifles (search) asked a nurse to lead them to the wounded fugitives. They grabbed the militants' medical files and wheeled the men out on their hospital beds to waiting military ambulances.

The wanted men -- members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (search), a militant group loosely affiliated with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction -- were driven to Israel's Beilinson Hospital near Tel Aviv (search) and were being treated for moderate injuries, military sources said.

Israel accuses one of the men -- Othman Younis, 27 -- of helping plan several attacks in which at least 10 people were killed, including an Aug. 12 supermarket bombing that killed a father of two in central Israel. That bombing came in the midst of a cease-fire declared by militant groups on June 29.

The other fugitive, Fahid Bani-Odeh, 25, is wanted for shooting attacks. Both are "hardcore" members of Al Aqsa, said the group's spokesman, who goes by the name Abu Mujahed. He confirmed that Younis helped plan the suicide bombing.

A two-month truce, which had reduced three years of violence, collapsed under last week's violence. A homicide bomber killed 21 people on a Jerusalem bus on Tuesday, and Israel killed a top-ranking Hamas political leader two days later.

Since the bombing, Israel has killed seven Hamas members, including a senior leader, in missile strikes, which marked the renewal of Israel's policy to hunt and kill militants. Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon has made clear that all members of the militant group are targets for "liquidation."

The latest missile strike, on Gaza's beach front late Sunday, forced senior Hamas members to go into hiding, while the group's spokesmen turned off their cellular phones. Hamas leaders were conspicuously absent from funerals Monday for four men killed in Sunday's missile strike.

Also Tuesday, Muslim-Jewish friction intensified at a disputed holy site in Jerusalem. Police arrested three Islamic officials after Muslim worshippers scuffled with police officers escorting Jewish visitors. In September 2000, deadly riots erupted at the shrine following a visit by then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon. The unrest escalated into three years of fighting.

After Sharon's visit, the site -- holy to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif and Jews as the Temple Mount -- was closed to visitors. It was reopened by police last week, with the initial acquiescence of the Islamic Trust, which administers the site.

The shrine is revered by Jews as the site of the biblical Jewish temples and by Muslims as the spot where Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. It is a potent symbol of rival claims on Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, the U.S.-backed Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas (search) -- who is trying to implement the "road map" peace plan to Palestinian statehood -- scheduled a new round of talks with leaders of Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip. It appeared that leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were not invited. Abbas said last week, after the Jerusalem bus bombing, that he is boycotting the militant groups.

Abbas's advisers have said he is hoping to negotiate a new cease-fire, this time making Israel a party to such a deal. Israel has said the Palestinians must live up to their obligations under the peace plan, including dismantling militant groups, and that it will continue hunting armed men until Palestinian security forces take action.

Brig. Gen. Jibril Rajoub, a former West Bank security chief named by Arafat earlier this week to the vacant post of national security adviser, said Tuesday that both sides must cooperate.

"We have to all think together how we are going to break the tension and put an end to the bloodshed," Rajoub told Israel Army Radio, speaking in Hebrew. "Part of it depends on us and the more important part depends on you and whether you are really willing to end the occupation."

Arafat fired Rajoub from his job as West Bank security chief after a violent argument in July 2002, but apparently brought him back in hopes of sidelining Abbas and his security chief Mohammed Dahlan. Rajoub and Dahlan have been rivals for years.

Secretary of State Colin Powell last week appealed in vain to Arafat to give Abbas full authority over security.

Abbas has been reluctant to crack down on militants, fearing it could spark civil war. He has appealed to Arafat to give him control of the key security branches, something he says is necessary to confront the militant groups.

In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian militants fired homemade Qassam rockets and mortar shells into nearby Israeli towns and Jewish settlements in the coastal strip overnight and early Tuesday, the army said.

Palestinians reported that soldiers were firing from the area where the shells and rockets were landing. Two Palestinians were wounded by gunfire, hospital officials and security sources said.

[bafromkc]

I was watching this on Fox News until the storm took out my dish...

Plane With Two Crew Members Crashes Off Cape Cod, Airline Says

Tuesday, August 26, 2003



YARMOUTH, Mass. — A commuter plane carrying only two pilots crashed Tuesday in Hyannis Harbor off Cape Cod, an airline spokeswoman said.

The condition of the pilots was not immediately known, according to Mary Finnegan, a spokeswoman for Colgan Air, based in Manassas, Va. The plane was on its way from Hyannis to Albany, N.Y., Finnegan said.

She said initial reports that the plane was carrying as many as 21 passengers were not accurate.

Colgan Air is a carrier for US Airways Express, serving Cape Cod. The plane was in the middle of a "repositioning" flight, not a scheduled flight, when it went down three miles short of the runway at Hyannis Airport, Finnegan said.

Debris could be seen floating in the water.

"Our thoughts and prayers are that our crew members are OK," Finnegan said.

Colgan Air provides service to 31 cities and 11 states on the East Coast. It has hubs in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh and Washington.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95765,00.html

[bafromkc]

I just watched them move the 10 Commandments from the Alabama on Fox News. They described it as "anti-climatic" because nothing out of the ordinary went down. Wow, some of the people of TV are crazy. There is some guy on Fox right now screaming "Put it back!" Its really pretty funny.