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IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon died earlier this evening following a fiery crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Wheldon, 33, was involved in a crash that saw 14 other cars also involved.

The picturesque little town of Nashwauk, Minnesota is going through some big changes. On Tuesday the first beams in what will be an Essar Steel Ltd. taconite mine and iron-ore pellet production plant where erected.

NEWS RELEASE SAULT STE. MARIE YMCA ************************* All ChildCare Programs including before and after school programs are running as normal and will be operating on Monday morning. Please use the Tower Entrance to access ChildCare Programs.

The Occupy Movement has gained steam in recent weeks and Saturday saw the movement represented in Sault Ste. Marie. “Sault Ste.

PUC POWER OUTAGE ADVISORY ***************************** Past Outages This is a description of an unplanned power interruption(s) that recently affected PUC Distribution customers in Sault Ste. Marie. Power has been restored to all customers.

Week In Review 10.14.11 Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of the week that was. Sometimes life is just too hectic to take it all in, we understand and have compiled the events of the last week for your viewing pleasure.

12:25 a.m. The power is back on in the west end. When the lights went out in our west end office at about 11:25 p.m., SooToday.com's Black Berry went bats. 19 messages came in over about a five minute span of time.

A late third-period goal gave the Barrie Colts a 5-4 win over the Soo Greyhounds. Joe Rogalski, Ryan Sproul, Corey Durocher and Michael Schumacher scored for the Greyhounds in the loss. Matt Murray stopped 23 shots in the loss.

The photo above was submitted today by faithful SooToday.com readers Sylvia and Megan Sherwood. "By the looks of it, no pumpkins where hurt during the nasty wind storm," they wrote. "It's okay, Charlie Brown. There will be pumpkins for Halloween.