Every minute, nearly four million cubic feet of water cascades over Niagara Falls’ 167-foot drop, giving the falls the greatest flow rate in the world of any waterfall over 50 meters high. Such a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bobby Leach used a steel barrel, also known as a plug (pictured), to go over Horseshoe Falls, the largest of Niagara's three ...

There are a lot of famous people and events with connections to Toledo.Today marks the anniversary of the first person to successfully ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel. And you guessed it, the ...

In this mad world of stunt-person outdoing stunt-person with increasingly complex escapades (witness 60 Minutes’ recent piece on JT Holmes helicoptering to the Eiger summit to ski, fly and parachute ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Carolyn Thompson, The Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Niagara Falls, whose most famous thrill-seekers have gone over the brink in barrels, wants to ...

Annie Edson Taylor is said to have become the first person to survive a plunge over Niagara Falls when she plummeted 158 feet to the “boiling cauldron below” in a 4-foot-tall wooden barrel made of ...

Bugs Bunny would probably describe Niagara Falls as "wet, wild and wo-mantic," but that wacky wabbit doesn't know the half of it. David Lindsay-Abaire's comedy "Wonder of the World" is a human version ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Niagara Falls, whose most famous thrill-seekers have gone over the brink in barrels, wants to be the place the rest of us go for outdoor adventure, too. A new marketing ...