GRIMSBY — The Niagara Storm Football Club is inviting football players for early registration this weekend. On Saturday, recruits for the 2010 season can visit Grimsby Peach King Centre, 162 Livingston Ave.[...]

OTTAWA — Twenty years after MPs pledged to end child poverty, activists say little progress has been achieved and the situation is a "national disgrace.[...]

HAMILTON — Two armed men wearing hospital masks overpowered two prison guards and helped a third man escape custody from Hamilton General Hospital Tuesday. Police alerts were issued throughout the GTA following the morning escape from the hospital at Victoria Ave.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Third-period goals from John D'Onofrio and Carson Minor was all the offence the Port Colborne Pirates could muster in a 7-2 loss on the road to the St. Catharines Falcons.[...]

TORONTO — Here are the winning numbers from the Ontario Lottery Corp. for Tuesday's Encore, Ontario Pick 3, Ontario Pick 4 and Daily Keno draws: The winning Encore number was 1967669. The winning Ontario Pick 3 number was 263.[...]

Ryan Pilkington nets 4 Ryan Pilkington scored four goals and collected five assists and Alex Fontaine had a hat trick as the Welland Tigers skated past Thorold 12-3 to improved their midget A record to a league-leading 13-1.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Constable Coffee has a secret. For 27 hours in a row, Evan Lindsay pulled double-double duty at the Tim Hortons on Lake St. The Niagara Regional Police constable was buttering bagels and slinging coffee from one morning shift right through to the next.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Just like Santa, Niagara police officers can tell if motorists are being bad or good and obeying the province's month-old cellphone ban.[...]

WELLAND — People wanting to help a local mother raising funds for the Princess Half-Marathon in support of leukemia and lymphoma can drop off donations at The Tribune.[...]

PORT COLBORNE — Another Lakeshore Catholic football team is going to Toronto to compete in a playoff game, this one hoping it won't be for the last time this year.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Skills Canada – Ontario is hosting a networking dinner Thursday for high school girls, at the Parkway Quality Inn and Convention Centre at 327 Ontario St., in St. Catharines.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Local Internet providers say they would have helped police crack down on child pornography with or without a new law.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Mayor Brian McMullan doesn't pretend to be an artist — despite childhood memories of painting pictures with his grandmother in her "art room." But it's McMullan's job to choose the winner of St.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — The beleaguered Wine Council of Ontario, which recently lost its biggest vintner members, will continue to have the support and dollars of the provincial government. Last week, Andrew Peller Ltd.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — Public health officials are scratching their heads over an apparent increase in Niagara women who smoke during pregnancy. It's not a big jump. Between 2006 and 2008, the number of moms-to-be who admitted smoking rose from 527 to 563, or from 13.[...]

ST. CATHARINES — City councillors have approved a $38.1-million Shickluna Generating Station, including a $1-million fish ladder — in a project that will generate both power and cash for St. Catharines.[...]

NIAGARA FALLS — The unmistakable sound of winter in Canada — metal cutting into ice — will blend with the roar of Niagara Falls when the Rink at the Brink opens Wednesday.[...]

PORT COLBORNE — The people of Port Colborne have not forgotten Katherine VanPatten. And the generosity and kindness they showed the young woman now living in East Amherst, N.Y., made her wish she'd never left her hometown, she said.[...]

NIAGARA FALLS — Legendary rockers Styx and Canadian group Glass Tiger will take to the stage on New Year's Eve in Niagara Falls. Styx is now fronted by singer Lawrence Gowan, of Strange Animal fame.[...]

FORT ERIE — With his buff arms and thick tattoos, Brad Morris had a strange reason to be at the Leisureplex Tuesday. "Maybe I can catch a break and be the next Pam Anderson," he said with a laugh while scarfing some pizza.[...]