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Lessons From Tiger`s Tall Tales

Infidelity breeds breach of contract.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Golfer Tiger Woods merely represents the latest in a seemingly unending series of tall tales that reflect the scope of infidelity perpetrated in our country.

To his now-discredited name we can add the former governor of New York, a Democrat, and the incumbent governor of South Carolina. Mr. Spitz had a media blitz when literally caught with his pants down cajoling a call girl on unofficial business in DC.

Home Prices in Salem Continue to Depreciate

November home price index shows further decline, slowed recovery according to newly released first American CoreLogic data.

(SALEM, Ore.) - National home prices, including distressed sales, declined by 5.7 percent in November 2009 compared to November 2008, according to First American CoreLogic and its LoanPerformance Home Price Index (HPI).

This was an improvement over October's year-over-year price decline of 7.6 percent.

Storms Continue Their Attack on Southern California, Southwest

The intensity of the storm now hitting the Southwest was stronger than some hurricanes with a barometric pressure under 29.00 inches of mercury Wednesday.

(LOS ANGELES) - AccuWeather.com reports the last and strongest in the train of Pacific storms will unleash a new round of flooding rain, mudslides, feet of mountain snow, damaging winds and severe thunderstorms on California and the Southwest into Friday.

It is an all out weather war being waged by the atmosphere on the Southwest.

Earthquake Refugees Flee Port-au-Prince

The exodus began shortly after the earthquake a week ago.

(PORT-AU-PRINCE/SALEM) - Port au Prince continued to experience a mass exodus today (20 Jan) as Haitians left the capital for other provinces in search of food, shelter and security. In the capital, there is an increasing lack of food, water, loss of jobs, destruction, medical care and a growing threat of crime and insecurity.

Missouri Medical Marijuana Bill Filed With Bi-Partisan Sponsorship

14 states stand up for medicinal use of cannabis and the other U.S. states are getting in line. Who's next?

(MISSOURI) - A bill to permit Missouri citizens whose doctors believe they benefit from the use of marijuana as medicine to do so without fear of criminal prosecution and imprisonment has been filed by Representative Kate Meiners of Kansas City.

The bill has more sponsors than ever before, with 16 House members signing onto the bill, including Republican Representative Robert Schaaf, a physician from St. Joseph. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia now have laws which permit patients to use marijuana as medicine with the approval of their doctors.

Stronger Storms Bear Down on California, Southwest

Twenty-foot waves will also batter the California coast, leading to over-wash flooding, property damage and severe beach erosion.

(LOS ANGELES) - As the magnitude of storms increases from the Pacific Ocean, the risk to lives and property will escalate into Friday over California and neighboring states. Not counting the latest storm bashing the Southwest Wednesday, one to two additional storms will slam ashore through Friday evening.

The storms will continue to pack high winds, flooding rain, feet of snow in the higher elevations, massive waves and severe thunderstorms over the region during the period.

The Second Amendment Fantasy and How Americans Have Been Taken In

People who advocate for concealed and assault weapons make up an anti-government segment of society.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The Second Amendment has evolved into an emotional issue par excellence that has divided American society. But the underlying issues are not about guns but about fear—on two levels.

Early Morning Eagle Creek Blaze Under Investigation

The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office urges anyone with information to contact the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

(EAGLE CREEK, Ore.) - Clackamas County Sheriff's Office patrol personnel, Estacada Fire and Sandy Fire rescue personnel were dispatched to a large structure fire at 1:49 a.m. this morning, at 29655 SE Hwy 211, in Eagle Creek.

Det. Jim Strovink with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, says the two-alarm blaze erupted in a structure described as an unoccupied barn which had been utilized previously as a woodworking shop.

The Merchants of Fear: Israel`s Profiting from Homeland Insecurity

The day after 9/11, Benjamin Netanyahu let slip that the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans was “very good” for Israel.

(TOKYO) - In the wake of the weird Christmas Day “underwear bomber” incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue, was all over the mainstream media touting whole-body scanners as the answer to America’s airline security problems.

Since leaving public office in 2009, Chertoff had co-founded the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management firm whose clients include a manufacturer of body-imaging screening machines.

Helping Haiti`s Earthquake Orphans

The United States is loosening its visa requirements in order to expedite adoptions of 900 Haitian children.

(PORT-AU-PRINCE/SALEM) - One week after a catastrophic earthquake turned what was already a desperately poor part of the world into a full fledged humanitarian emergency, the staff of an orphanage in the Haitian capital of Port-au Prince are trying to figure out what to do with all the children who have recently lost their families.