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Miss Oregon Will Tour Portland Air National Guard Base

Her tour will include Fighter Wing Flight Operations, Life Support, maintenance shops, base security forces, the new base firehouse, and the 125th Special Tactics Squadron. Barber will also be able to view an F-15 Eagle.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Airmen at the Portland Air National Guard Base in Portland, Oregon, will host the newly-crowned Miss Oregon today.

22-year old CC Barber of Scappoose, Oregon, who was crowned Miss Oregon on July 18, at the Miss Oregon Scholarship Pageant in Seaside, will tour units at the 142nd Fighter Wing.

Taser Use in the U.S. is a Serious Problem

Just because we have the guts to talk about it.

(SALEM, Ore.) - You know, Sigmund Freud would have had a time with the psychology behind police Taser abuse. My story Monday on the new Taser gun that shoots and tortures up to three people at once, did not go over well with the Taser company in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Skateboarding on a sidewalk, being disrespectful, refusing to sign a speeding ticket; these are the reasons some cops use Tasers on people.

North Santiam River Levels Will Rise Tuesday

This operation is expected to be completed by the end of the day.

(SANTIAM, Ore.) - The US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) will be executing a drawdown of Big Cliff Reservoir upon completion of emergency repairs tomorrow morning.

This is part of an on-going repair process which has caused changes in flow rates and river temperatures this year for the North Santiam River.

Obama: Now Panderer-in-Chief

I think it comes down to politics with President Obama. He would rather get re-elected in 2012, than do the right thing now and tell it like it is.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - He had to do some pandering to get elected. But he doesn’t have to pander to stay elected.

Obama inherited problems on a scale that no other president has ever seen: trillion dollar problems—wars, bailouts, health care reform and deficits. His popularity is now sliding because he hasn’t been able, in his first 200 days, to fix everything.

Adventist Medical Center Opens First Human Milk Donor Depot in Portland, Oregon

World Breastfeeding Week is August 1st - 7th.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Today, in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week, Adventist Medical Center opened the first human milk donor depot for Portland, Oregon.

The depot, which is only the second in the Pacific Northwest, encourages and collects human milk donations for medically fragile infants and children.

Fishing for Energy Comes to the Oregon Coast

Innovative program helps with the disposal and removal of old fishing gear and marine debris.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Fishing for Energy is catching on in Oregon. Garibaldi and Newport will be the first port communities in the state to participate in the innovative partnership that provides a cost-free solution for fishermen to dispose of old fishing gear that is then turned into energy.

The Fishing for Energy partnership will place collection bins at the ports to collect old, abandoned or lost fishing gear beginning in August.

Pirates Free MV Hansa Stavanger Along With Crew

The box-ship with around 1,070 containers was sea-jacked by Somali sea-shifta on 3rd April 2009 400 km off the southern Somali port of Kismaayu.

(NAIROBI, Kenya) - "The nightmare of being held hostage in Somalia is over for five Germans, three Russians, two Ukrainians, two Filipinos, 11 Tuvaluans and one sailor from Fiji," according to Ecoterra International, a group in Africa that monitors the pirate situation off Somalia around the clock since 1986.

They say pirates freed the German owned, German-flagged MV Hansa Stavanger and the vessel is sailing - Ecoterra's sources confirmed.

American Combat Veterans Facing Deportation

Warning to Immigrants seeking military service, Get U.S. Citizenship Naturalization before joining the U.S. Armed Forces.

(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) - A scandal of deception and broken promises of citizenship in exchange for military service to past immigrant veterans has been exposed.

The DOD targeted 9,000 non-immigrants in the US in a "pilot" military recruitment program designed to entice young dreamers with promises of US citizenship for military service.

PTSD Epidemic in Nurses and Doctors

Their PTSD is as bad as Combat Infantry.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Thousands have read my PTSD articles in salem-news.com and hundreds have emailed comments and questions.

ABI Asks: Why Would MADD Oppose Obama`s Beer Summit?

MADD's Opposition to Beers at the White House Exposes Group's Anti-Alcohol Sentiment.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Today, the American Beverage Institute (ABI) criticized Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) for publicly lamenting that President Obama chose to hold a “Beer Summit” in an effort to cool tensions between the gentlemen involved in the recent police incident in Cambridge.

“MADD is no longer an organization that opposes drunk driving, but an anti-alcohol group that has been hijacked by the modern day temperance movement,” said Sarah Longwell, ABI Managing Director.