| Canadiens romp over lazy Lightning
The Montreal Canadiens outworked Tampa Bay all night on Thursday, winning the game easily with more than a little help from Lightning defenceman Filip Kuba. The Canadiens dropped Tampa Bay 5-2 for their 12th road win of the season. A pair of Montreal shots went off Kuba and into the Lightning net and he was in the penalty box for a third goal. Maxim Lapierre celebrates Montreal's first goal against Tampa Bay on Thursday.(Chris O'Meara/Associated Press) Maxim Lapierre, with his first of the season, Guillaume Latendresse, Alexei Kovalev, Andrei Markov, and Andrei Kostitsyn scored for Montreal (18-13-6). Mike Komisarek and Tomas Plekanec each had two assists for the Canadiens. While Kuba and starting goaltender Johan Holmqvist were easy scapegoats, the entire Lightning team played an uninspired game, threatening Montreal netminder Cristobal Huet with good scoring chances very few times.
Arctic heat wave stuns climate change researchers
Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen's University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts. "Everything has changed dramatically in the watershed we observed," reports Geography professor Scott Lamoureux, the leader of an International Polar Year project announced yesterday in Nunavut by Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl. "It's something we'd envisioned for the future - but to see it happening now is quite remarkable." One of 44 Canadian research initiatives to receive a total of $100 million (IPY) research funding from the federal government, Dr. Lamoureux's new four-year project on remote Melville Island in the northwest Arctic brings together scientists and educators from three Canadian universities and the territory of Nunavut.
GM canola gets go-ahead in two states
THE Victorian and New South Wales Governments say farmers will enjoy higher profits after the two states today became the first to lift bans on genetically modified (GM) crops. The decision to allow farmers to grow genetically modified canola has been criticised by some farmers and environmental groups who say most people believe GM food is dangerous. But a group of eight agricultural scientists across Australia released a statement backing the move, saying every major science and health organisation in the world endorsed the safety of GM crops to human health and the environment. Farmers in Victoria and NSW would now be able to choose what type of canola crop they grew, putting them on a level playing field with overseas farmers and able to enjoy environmental benefits, Victorian Premier John Brumby said.
Arizona Serial Rape Suspect Arrested, Linked to Attacks by DNA
Santana Batiz Aceves, 39, was booked into a Maricopa County jail in Phoenix on 25 counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and trespassing in connection with the assaults that began in June 2006, police announced at a news conference. They said the most recent attack linked to the case occurred June 8 on a 14-year-old girl. Click here for video reports on this story at MyFoxPhoenix.com Police had been searching for months for a man who raped four girls and attempted to assault two others in the Chandler area. All of the victims have been girls between the ages of 12 and 15, according to authorities. Chandler Police Chief Sherry Kiyler said Aceves is an illegal immigrant who was deported twice for drug charges in California in 1999 and 2003.
A recipe for redemption
What this is, say those who knew him then and know him now, is the story of how a saute pan saved Ben Pumo. * * * "There was a time," his dad, Bennet Pumo Sr., said the other day on the phone from his home in South Florida, "when he could've gone one way or the other." The kid was a Boy Scout. He loved baseball. He made Eagle Scout. His grandfather was a builder of homes. His father builds and rents warehouse space. In Miami Shores, Pumo grew up comfortable, went to Catholic schools, ate at nice restaurants. He was hard-working and had an entrepreneurial instinct. He worked in a bowling alley and was a lifeguard in the summers. He ran a soft-serve ice cream machine in a concession stand at the local ball field.
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