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'Extreme Makeover' comes knocking for Buffalo family

Updated: 12:17 PM /
Television personality Ty Pennington this morning knocked on the door of a Jamaican immigrant living on Buffalo's West Side.

In historic vote, House approves health care bill

12:21 AM /
WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, the House late Saturday passed comprehensive legislation aimed at remaking the American health care system to provide coverage for all. The bill passed, 220-215, prompting raucous cheers and hugs among Democrats.

Review today's high school football playoff action

Updated: 8:21 PM /
Today's Section VI playoff tripleheader concluded with North Tonawanda rolling past Lancaster, 54-7, at Ralph Wilson Stadium. Reporter Keith McShea and photographer Mark Mulville tracked the action on Prep Talk Live. Earlier, Cheektowaga beat Alden, 27-13, and Southwestern defeated Eden, 21-8.

Delores Powell, center, and her four children in the backyard of their Massachusetts Avenue home in April 2008. From left are Deborah, Gabrielle, Delores, Anschell and Joel.
Charles Lewis/News file photo

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News & Opinion

Got jobs?

The breaking news on the economic front this morning is the latest, and still frightening, unemployment situation:…

— from Strictly Business

Editorials: Today's editorial board meeting (11/6)

Hi, all. Today's board meeting opened with discussion of the tragedy at Fort Hood, but we're not going to weigh in…

— from Matters of Opinion

Sports

Prep Talk Live's Class AA replay: NT clobbers Lancaster, 54-7

Check the Prep Talk Live page for outstanding photography from The News' Mark Mulville. Class AA final: Lancaster…

— from Prep Talk

This Day in Buffalo Sports History: Significant addition

Nov. 8, 1986 -- Usually when a player is picked up on the waiver wire in the middle of a football season, it means…

— from Sports, Ink

Life & Arts

Zeppelin Fighters of the Stone Age

Not sure I could've dreamed up a cooler band then Them Crooked Vultures. Foo Fighter Dave Grohl back behind the kit…

— from Miers on Music

Zagajewski's poetry of the cosmic world and the human face

"Poetry summons us to life, to courage/ in the face of growing shadow./ Can you gaze at the Earth/ like the perfect…

— from ArtsBeat

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Sports

Bills are stalled in twilight zone

Updated: 1:20 AM /
Buffalo's offense is staggering through the halfway point of the 2009 season. The Bills are headed for some terrible statistical milestones in a variety of categories at this rate.

Business

Obama signs law benefiting unemployed and home buyers

Updated: 12:00 AM /
President Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective home buyers and additional jobless benefits to those idled by the business slump.

World & Nation

Obama to attend memorial for Fort Hood victims

Updated: 11:56 PM /
President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as "all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable" because it occurred on the nation's largest Army post.

Opinion

Looking at these elections

Updated: 9:57 PM /
Today's editorial page looks back at Tuesday's elections? Would it have been too much for Sheriff Tim Howard to pledge to fix the real problems at the jail, rather than thanking his followers for not believing in them? And the low voter turnout was dismaying but Niagara Legislature downsizing was a plus.

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