Over a century ago, daredevil Bobby Leach hopped inside a fully riveted, 1/2-inch steel barrel for his trip over Niagara Falls in 1911. Today, after a forklift successfully situated the device at ...

Metro New York mother sent her kids over Niagara Falls first in ‘intentional’ fatal plunge: report By Shane Galvin Published Nov. 2, 2024, 2:05 a.m. ET ...

But people kept going for it. Michael Clarkson, who wrote a book about Daredevilry and the falls called "The Age Of Daredevils," told WBUR that the falls seem "to draw people. It seems to pull them." ...

Time will tell whether he's right. Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year-old teacher and the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, hoped the stunt would provide her a pension of sorts.

A local Niagara Falls, N.Y., woman Chianti Means, 33, and her children Roman Rossman, 9, and Mecca Means, 5 months, fell to their deaths Oct. 28 at Niagara Falls State Park after bypassing safety ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - A man survived a plunge of at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt Monday - only the third person known to ...

O n the train ride home from his neighborly visit to Ottawa (see CANADA), Harry Truman paused for a look at Niagara Falls. He remarked thoughtfully: “I’d hate to go over ’em in a barrel ...

We got a kick out of the Niagara Falls Bar Association's new World Wide Web site at www.niagbar.org. When you click on the site, you see a depiction of a barrel coming toward you and dropping off ...