Blackhawks deal Versteeg to Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired forward Kris Versteeg from the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks in a five-player deal.

Versteeg had 44 points in 79 regular-season games last season and …

Volunteer firefighters released from hospital

Two volunteer firefighters who were injured this week whilefighting a blaze near St. Albans were released from the hospital.

Jermaine Watson and Jeremy Buskirk of the West Side Volunteer FireDepartment were treated and released from CAMC …

Venus Has Frequent Bursts of Lightning

Nearby Venus is looking a bit more Earth-like with frequent bursts of lightning confirmed by a new European space probe.

For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning _ ever since a 1978 NASA probe showed signs of electrical activity in its atmosphere. But experts weren't sure because of signal interference.

Now a magnetic antenna on the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe proved that the lightning was real.

"We consider this to be the first definitive evidence of abundant lighting on Venus," David Grinspoon of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science told reporters Wednesday at a briefing in Paris.

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Foreclosure possible? Help nears

Homeowners at risk of foreclosure can get help at a foreclosure prevention event Saturday presented by Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, the City of Chicago and Attorneys Title Guaranty Fund Inc.

The event takes place from 9:30 …

Seeking the priesthood of all believers

Intense commitment and honesty are 'God-filled times' for some but not all

The Kitchener-Waterloo House Churches were founded in 1969 by John Miller and Walter Klaassen-both professors at the time at die then-named Conrad Grebel College-along with others. Their impulse, like tiiat of other house churches founded around that time, was to return to an early church format where "the priesthood of all believers" mentioned in I Peter 2:5,9 was to be practised. This was a fundamental part of Mennonite Church Concern Movement beliefs among scholars and church leaders in the 1960s and 70s.

The KW House Churches are intense, intimate and intentional communities of worship, mutual …

Torre Says He'll 'Just Leave Memories'

RYE BROOK, N.Y. - Joe Torre heard enough. He felt insulted. He felt unappreciated. He won't even set foot in Yankee Stadium anytime soon, not even to clean out his office. "I walked out of there, I'm not going back," he said. "I just leave the memories."

A day after he turned down a one-year contract, convinced the team no longer was committed to him after 12 seasons and four World Series titles, he went out his way - grateful, yet defiant; respectful but hurt.

He didn't say goodbye in Yankee Stadium. Instead, he spoke for 67 minutes - one minute for each year of his life - in a hotel ballroom near his home in suburban New York, close to the Connecticut border.

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Australian warships visit NY to mark centennial

Two Australian warships have arrived in New York harbor to commemorate the nearly century-old military relationship between Australia and the United States.

The HMAS Sydney and HMAS Ballarat sailed into New York Harbor on Sunday morning and are docked at a pier on Manhattan's West Side.

In 1908, the U.S. Navy's "Great White Fleet" was invited to stop at Australian ports during its round-the-world cruise _ and was greeted by nearly 250,000 people in Sydney. The Australian government …