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  • Search on for Indo-Canadian man missing in Australia

    A frantic search is on for a 25-year-old Indo-Canadian man who went missing in a national park in Australia. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton in the Canadian province of Ontario was last seen May 13 parking his rental vehicle at village Charlotte Pass and entering the Kosciuszko National Park in the Australian state of New South Wales, according to local media. A law student of Bond University in ...

  • Deadly US Twister Hits Tornado Alley

    Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. Comparison of Tornado paths in ...

  • Montreal issues boil-water advisory to large part of the city

    Montreal has issued a boil-water advisory to a large swath of the city.It has released the advisory, which applies to the lower half of the island, after a water-filtration station broke down.Residents are advised to boil their water for at least a minute, or to use bottled water.Tap water can still be used to wash dishes, take a shower or wash ...

  • Video Toronto Mayor Rob Ford mocked on The Daily Show

    Satirical news program "The Daily Show" took aim at Toronto's gaffe-prone mayor Tuesday night. Host Jon Stewart poked fun at the alleged video showing Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine and looked back at his other ...

  • Deputy mayor urges mayor to address crack video

    TORONTO -; A close ally of Toronto mayor Rob Ford said Wednesday that Ford has followed legal advice in remaining silent about a purported video that appears to show him smoking crack ...

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The Hills Have Eyes II

The Hills Have Eyes II

After the relatively positive critical and undeniably commercial success of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), writer/director Wes Craven followed it up with what is generally considered the worst film of his career, if not one of the worst horror fil ... ...

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  • ‘RHOOC’ star Tamra Barney stresses over her business and children

    Tamra is learning just how stressful it is to run a business and be a parent to several children - all at the same time. "JOY! Two morning employees called in sick and my daughter home sick. ...the stress of owning your own ...

  • ‘RHOBH’ star Kyle Richards threatens to quit the show over cheating allegations

    Kyle Richards has been on the show since the very beginning and fans saw her as the reasonable one on the first season. During the dinner party from hell, Kyle was told by Camille Grammer's psychic friend that her husband would never emotionally fulfill her and there have been recent cheating rumors about her marriage. However, Kyle doesn't want her marriage to be portrayed in a ...

  • Tamra Barney follows in Bethenny Frankel and Kim Zolciak’s footsteps

    Tamra Barney has gone through some big changes over the past couple of years. She has divorced her husband, Simon Barney, after several fights captured on the show. They couldn't agree on how to raise their children and Simon couldn't get along with Tamra's son Ryan, who isn't biologically Simon's child. However, it sounds like Eddie accepts all of her children and is ...

  • ‘RHOOC’ star Lauri Peterson explains how her marriage to George has changed

    Lauri Peterson started out on the show as a single mother of several children and she was working hard to make ends meet. She was working with Vicki Gunvalson at Coto Insurance back when Vicki was working in her home office but she was clearly not measuring up to Vicki's standards, as Lauri was often called home because of her children. However, after she met George, Lauri quit working and ...

  • Boil water advisory in effect for most of Montreal

    Almost the entire city of Montreal is under a boil water advisory, after tests at a city filtration plant showed the water was not safe to drink. City officials advised residents Wednesday morning that the drinking water is unfit for consumption everywhere south of Highway 40, also called the Metropolitan Expressway. That includes the neighbourhoods of Mount Royal, Westmount, Cote Saint ...

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