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Rough Going for Afghan Immigrants in France

While many migrants in France come from countries in conflict--they aren’t always aware they can apply for asylum. Others find themselves caught in difficult bureaucratic procedures of making an asylum claim.

(CALAIS/SALEM) - Mamad Khan has spent another night sleeping outside in freezing temperatures. He is one of hundreds of young men who have come to this port city to escape desperate situations in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Eritrea, or Sudan.

Calais has become a transit point where smugglers take them on to another country--usually the United Kingdom.

Benny & Sid presents Chapter 19 of the Serialized Graphic Novel The Truant Officer Featuring the Mysterious Futoko

Salem's only original weekly cartoon strip!

(Your City USA) - I don't blame teachers for their classrooms of non-learning. They do the best they can given the circumstances. If students were hungry to learn the teacher's task would be simple.

However with America's entitled attitude teachers must beg students to study, reward them with candy when they haven't caused too much trouble during recess, cajole parents into turning off the tv so that students can spend 15 minutes learning their math facts and practicing their spelling.

Deschutes County Man Indicted on Multiple Sex Charges

Charges include online sexual corruption of a child and furnishing sexually explicit materials to a minor.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon Attorney General John Kroger today announced the indictment and arrest of a Deschutes County man on multiple counts that include using the internet to target and attempt to sexually exploit a child.

Rhode Island House Members Introduce Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana

Bill would decriminalize the possession of less than one ounce and substitute a civil penalty of $150.

(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) - A bill to decriminalize the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana and substitute a civil penalty of $150 was introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives yesterday.

Experts Say All 4 Reactor Candidates Are `Ugly,` Risky to U.S. Taxpayers

Obama Nuclear Bailout/Not Workable - "Ugly" Field of Four Bailout Candidates Present Huge Taxpayer Risks With Rising Cost Estimates, Delays, Flawed Reactor Designs, and Credit Downgrades; January One of Worst Months Ever for Industry.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - What if the federal government held a beauty contest for taxpayer-backed nuclear reactor loan guarantee bailouts ... and no reactor project "beauties" could be lined up for the runway?

Feds Say Newberg, Oregon Amputee Was Fired Because of Disability

"Attrell's fired Ms. Jackson based on its own stereotypes about what a person who uses a wheelchair can and cannot do" - A. Luis Lucero, Jr., director of the EEOC's Seattle Field Office.

(SEATTLE) - A Newberg, Ore., funeral chapel will pay $62,500 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced today.

Remembering Israel`s Tragic Attack on Gaza

MAP FILMS visited the Gaza Strip and spoke to its residents one year on from the Israeli Operation 'Cast Lead' that killed approximately 1,400 people.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The tragedy in Haiti has commanded the world's attention in recent weeks as it should. The plight of the Haitian people is now reaching the levels of disparity that exist on a daily basis in Gaza. The difference is that Mother Nature didn't destroy Gaza, the Israeli's did.

Anything Israel does... any military act against a child or mother or senior citizen in Palestine, is totally and completely endorsed by the U.S. government. The United Nations had the courage to submit the infamous Richard Goldstone Report, but in its complicity, the U.S. totally turned the other way and dismissed it.

WHO Calls Breastfeeding Best Answer for Newborns in Haiti

Risks of miscarriages and other complications are serious.

(PORT-AU-PRINCE/SALEM) - The United Nations reports that about 7,000 women are due to give birth this month in Haiti, as medical teams continue to work around the clock in birthing tents to deliver newborns.

According to UNICEF, there are currently 120,000 pregnant women in Haiti, more than half are in earthquake-affected areas.

Veterans Demand End of `Don`t Ask Don`t Tell` Policy for Gays

"Right now we need every man on deck, we can't be picking and choosing unless we're going to bring the draft back" -Mario Benfield, American Legion Post 448

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Mario Benfield is the past commander of the only American Legion post whose membership is predominantly gay and lesbian.

Benfield and other vets are sick of Pres. Clinton's 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' policy banning gays from military service if they are honest about their lives.

Schools in Haiti Still Under Plenty of Rubble

Many survivors still harbor fears of ever being in a classroom again.

(PORT-AU-PRINCE/SALEM) - As schools in other provinces in Haiti reopened today, students of Port-au- Prince’s Daniel Fignolé high school, one of 8,000 schools damaged by the earthquake, still grieved their deceased classmates and teachers as well as struggled with the traumatic memories of being in a classroom again.

Louis Montespoir is the Director of the Daniel Fignole School. "We don't have any teachers that died in the building - but some died elsewhere. But we have 700 students who died."