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Fatal Traffic Crash - Highway 97 North of Madras

(MADRAS, Ore.) - Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers are continuing the investigation into an early Friday morning single vehicle fatal traffic crash along Highway 97 about twenty miles north of Madras. The crash resulted in the death of a 26-year old Madras-area man and serious injuries to a female passenger.

Update: Driver Arrested - Fatal Traffic Crash - Highway 101 North of Port Orford

(Port Orford, Oregon) - A Portland-area woman died Tuesday morning when the pickup she was riding in crashed off Highway 101 about one mile north of Port Orford on the southern Oregon coast. The 57-year old driver was arrested for Manslaughter in the Second Degree Thursday by Oregon State Police (OSP) in relation to the ongoing investigation.

Oregon Department of Forestry Daily Fire Update for Friday, August 26, 2011

(Salem, Oregon) - This is the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) fire update for Friday, August 26, 2011.

Over the past 24 hours, lightning continued to move through Oregon, including systems through western Oregon, starting near Eugene, that moved northeast through Wasco County/Cascade crest, out of Oregon into central Washington, and then veering south into Oregon again into portions of Umatilla County. Precipitation accompanying this lightning was variable. More lightning and thunderstorms are in the weather forecasts for parts of Oregon from today through Sunday.

Jewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision

“Genital Integrity is a Human Right” – Protest by Jews for the Rights of the Child

(SALEM, Ore.) - The past century has been marked by the declaration and protection of universal human rights, as well as a marked increase in the quality of life, both in the United States and worldwide.

With these improvements, higher expectations regarding a child’s right to bodily autonomy have become socially accepted and legally mandated.

(VIDEO added) Bizarre Lightning in Salem- What Was it?

Before the lightning strikes gave way to thunder, we watched an aircraft fly in from the north to, it appeared, take a look.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Shortly after 3:00 a.m. today, Dexter Phoenix and I noticed a very strange weather occurrence that I suspect many Salem area residents heard from inside of their homes.

What we saw was a series of lightning strikes to the east, they were almost flashing in a consistent pattern, roughly every 20 seconds. I've absolutely never witnessed anything like it in my life.

Everyone`s asking `Where`s Prageeth?` as Free Media Campaign Goes Viral

"The response has been incredible. By noon (GMT) people had tweeted the campaign to over twenty four thousand of their followers..." - Fred Carver, Campaign Director of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice

(LONDON) - Hundreds of people took to twitter yesterday to ask the Government of Sri Lanka where Prageeth Ekneligoda is.

They were responding to a campaign launched by the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice to help track down the journalist who has been missing for 19 months to the day. Prageeth was abducted on 24 January 2010 and has not been heard from since.

The Siege of Tripoli

The West is gobbling up the fake NTC (NATO) “media advisories” being regurgitated by “Libya experts” interviewed ad nausea on CNN, BCC, FOX and other MSM outlets...

(TRIPOLI) - This observer’s tentative appraisal of Tuesday’s events along the north Tripoli port area as of late afternoon 8/23/11 is that the “65,000 well trained and well-armed troops” hyped Sunday by the Gaddafi government don’t in fact exist.

Gilad Atzmon: The Flag And The Penis

For many of us, the blue & white flag stands for horrendous crimes against humanity...

(LONDON) - The Daily Mail reported this week that young Paul Donnachie was found to have acted in a racially aggravated manner when he defiled an Israeli flag in a supposed political protest.

A judge ruled against him, and Donnachie will lose his place at St Andrews University with immediate effect.

Change and Challenge in a New Mexico Border Town

As Vado-Del Cerro moves into the next century of New Mexico statehood, what are some of the visions of the future its residents and neighbors hold?

(VEDO-DEL CERRO, N.M.) - Down a country lane in southern New Mexico‘s Mesilla Valley, a new walk-path and park took shape as the summer heat beat relentlessly down upon the land.

While a similar project might not even draw so much as a wink in a bigger community, residents of the rural community of Vado-Del Cerro are “very excited” about getting a new recreational space, says Vado Village Council Chair Mitch Boyer.

Book Festival Interview: Gordon Weiss on Sri Lanka`s Civil War

UN spokesman during the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Gordon Weiss says the organisation ‘should have pushed harder’ to save lives, especially those of trapped civilians.
Warning!! Very Graphic Photos!!

(EDINBURGH) - Gordon Weiss is driving across Sydney when I call. "Don't worry, I've got a hands-free doo-da," he says. "The police here will arrest me and do terrible things to me if they see me driving holding a handset."

Of course, the Australian police are unlikely to do terrible things to anyone, even if they catch them breaking the law.