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NEWS RELEASE ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES ******************** Black bear believed responsible for fatal attack on woman has been killed TORONTO, Sept.

She was born 48 years ago in Smooth Rock Falls, north of Cochrane. But she doesn't look anything like 48 because she works out four times a week. She can type 100 words a minute, and supported herself doing exactly that for three years in Toronto.

As SooToday.com reported earlier this week, the MV Columbus was in town for her first visit of the 2005 cruise season.

Kyle Blau, a freshman in biology and pre-dental studies at Lake Superior State University, was up to his eyeteeth in personal belongings yesterday as he moved a carload of stuff into residence.

Representatives of Parsons Transportation Group, the international engineering group that's been inspecting the International Bridge since it was built in 1962, will be starting their annual check-up next week.

The U.S. National Hurricane Centre says Tropical Storm Ophelia has regained hurricane strength and might hit land in South Carolina as early as Monday or Tuesday.

NEWS RELEASES CANADIAN RED CROSS MIKE PRENTICE LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY *********************** Red Cross workers from Algoma to assist Katrina relief effort SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – SEPTEMBER 9, 2005 – A Red Cross volunteer from Sault Ste.

Ottawa's major traffic artery was blocked for more than nine hours yesterday after a transport hauling three big coils of Algoma Steel lost its load. The driver was killed instantly when his truck crashed into a median on the Queensway.

Fednor Minister Andy Mitchell Mitchell will be in Sault Ste. Marie next week. Mitchell, who's also the federal minister of agiculture and agri-food, is expected at Flakeboard Co. Ltd.'s Sault operation at 3:15 p.m.

CNN is reporting this afternoon that Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown has been recalled to Washington, and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is expected to announce a new leader for Katrina relief efforts.