Dale Mussen

A hot air balloon tragedy in Egypt claimed the lives of 19 tourists when the sightseeing balloon they were aboard exploded and crashed to the ground. But there have been many fatalities over the years since the very first balloon flight in 1783.

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New York City's ban on sugary soft drinks larger than 16 ounces begins March 12.  Now Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants New York State to do the same thing.

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Something I’ll never get arrested for – whistling too loud. I can’t whistle in the first place. I can make a couple of whistling sounds but they’re never very loud.

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New York State gas prices are 30 cents a gallon higher than the national average, so Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set up a gas price complaint hotline.

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The 85th Annual Academy Awards were presented last night (February 24) in  Hollywood, recognizing the best in filmmaking over the past year.

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Following the tragedy of the day before in the Nationwide race, the Daytona 500 finished with a big wreck on the final lap, but the track was clear to the finish line so the race stayed green to the end. Dale Earnhardt, Junior got a shove from Mark Martin to threaten, but it was Jimmie Johnson holding on to win the series biggest race for the second time his career.

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I've been following this Buffalo Sabres team since its inception in 1970 and I can say without a doubt this is the lowest point in franchise history.  They've already fired the long-time coach and there's been no noticeable change in the team's performance.  Saturday night at First Niagara Center the boos were mixed with calls to fire the general manager.  You can fire the entire front office and the entire support staff and it still wouldn't make a difference.  This team is bad and its the players.

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The coach bids farewell and the cowboy rides away.  Long-time Buffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff says goodbye after being fired two days earlier, and George Strait gives his final concert in Buffalo -- on the same day! This is a way too emotional day for me.  Two class acts that I've admired for years, and it's hard to let go.

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Coaching didn't make a difference in the Sabres first game with a new coach.  With Ron Rolston behind the Buffalo bench the Sabres made the same mistakes they've been making all season in a 3-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Today (February 22), we celebrate the birthday of George Washington, born in 1732.  He was pretty sickly during his life – suffering from malaria, smallpox, pleurisy and dysentery, all before he was 30. He almost drowned twice when he fell into an icy river on his way back from an expedition to a French fort in northwestern Pennsylvania.

The story of how he cut down a cherry tree with his new axe never happened. It was made up by a biographer years after he died. 

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The field is now set for Sunday’s Daytona 500 after Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch emerged the winners of Thursday’s Budweiser Duels. Coming off the victory in the Sprint Unlimited, Harvick won his heat in the Duel 150's and that will place him in the third starting position on Sunday while Busch will start fourth. Danica Patrick and Jeff Gordon already clinched the front row last Sunday. Patrick came in 17th in the day’s first Duel and Gordon finished 12th in his heat.

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What do the words we use on Twitter say about us and where we live?

Researchers at the University of Vermont did a study of 10 million tweets and the words that were used, then mapped out where they originated to determine the happiest and saddest states.

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