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`Cool Country Benefit Concert` to Support Local Families At-Risk for Abuse

Concert leads efforts to reopen Child Abuse Prevention Center in downtown Salem.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A little bit of Nashville, TN will be coming to the Oregon State Fairgrounds. The “Cool Country Benefit Concert,” benefiting the Salem/Keizer based charity ESCAPE, will take place at the L.B. Day Amphitheater on Friday, August 14th starting at 6:30 p.m.

Viva Palestina Convoy Arrives in Gaza

The current convoy, which first tried to cross into Gaza on July 11th, faced numerous obstacles.

(PALOS HILLS, Ill.) - To chants of ‘Viva! Viva! Palestina!’ more than 200 members of the Viva Palestina convoy made it into the Gaza Strip Wednesday after spending about six hours at the Rafah border processing paperwork.

Israel’s two-year siege of the Gaza Strip has plunged the tiny area of 1.5 million people into a humanitarian crisis. And Israel’s three-week assault further devastated the area when the military bombed homes, schools, mosques, hospitals and universities. The attack killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, wounded more than 5,300 and left more than 50,000 people homeless.

Police Need Help Locating Missing Man

Anyone with information to help find John Adkins is asked to call Oregon State Police Northern Command Center dispatch at 1-800-452-7888.

(LONG BEACH, Wash.) - Oregon State Police detectives are assisting Long Beach, Washington police with the investigation of a missing Albany man last seen July 5th at the Port of Ilwaco on the south Washington coast.

Sergeant Kevin Martin with the Long Beach, Washington Police Department, says 53-year old John Curtis Adkins, left with two men on the 48-foot fishing vessel "Tiger" from Garibaldi, Oregon on the Fourth of July weekend, heading for Ilwaco, Washington.

Christina Aguilera Lends Powerful Voice in Fight to End Hunger

She becomes the Global Spokesperson for World Hunger Relief Effort this Fall; she'll Raise Awareness of Hunger Issue by Appearing in PSA, Advertising, Posters and Online Campaign, FromHungerToHope.com.

(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) - Five-time Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera is giving hunger a powerful voice by becoming the global spokesperson for World Hunger Relief.

Aguilera will help raise awareness of the hunger issue this fall by appearing in a new public service announcement, advertising and posters.

Mitchell Man Charged with 12 Counts of Animal Neglect (PHOTOS)

The owner has been charged with twelve counts of Animal Neglect in the Second Degree, a Class B misdemeanor, with a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $2,500 fine.

(MITCHELL, Ore.) - A Mitchell, Oregon man has been charged through the Wheeler County District Attorney's Office with twelve counts of Animal Neglect in the Second Degree.

Thirty horses and two mules were seized and evidence of neglect was found in each animal. Lack of hoof care was a primary issue, as well as the conditions the animals were being held in.

Oregon Motorcycle Wipeout Caught on Video

The motorcycle dropped onto its side and the operator went down onto the pavement as the radar unit obtained a speed of 85 mph.

(THE DALLES, Ore.) - Oregon State Police have released video of a serious motorcycle crash from June 18th that was recorded by a patrol car video camera.

Oregon State Police spokesman Gregg Hastings says the in-car video caught the sliding motorcycle and rolling operator as both passed the trooper's stopped patrol car along Interstate 84 in The Dalles.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #53

The autumn has a beauty of its own, but for me the dream of summer persists through the other seasons.

(Salem) - Life is good in the summer. The sense of summer freedom is intoxicating to me.

Every color that the sun picks out in the flowers, every bird-song sung, every shimmy of trees in the wind reminds me that this is the best of all seasons. Summers should last forever. We should be kids forever walking around, skipping rocks across ponds, reading books that we want to read--not books that someone else has picked for us and are so boring that it dulls the imagination.

Oregon Tops National Homelessness Tally (AUDIO)

The AHAR report on homelessness is compiled for Congress by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

(SALEM, Ore. ONS) - The number of homeless people in Oregon has climbed for the third straight year. A new national report compiled for Congress by the Department of Housing and Urban Development says about one-half of one percent of Oregonians are homeless.

That may not sound like much, but it's a higher percentage than in any other state, compared to its total population, and it means 17,000 people statewide are living in shelters or on the street.

The American Problem

Because America is such a huge economy and military power, it has influences, positive and negative, virtually everywhere on the earth. The American problem, in fact, the world’s problem, is that as long as Americans continue to act, politically and militarily, as if they are the only people on earth, the future looks rocky indeed—for everyone.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Sonia Sotomayor said during confirmation hearings: “American law does not permit the use of foreign law or international law to interpret the Constitution.”

She had little choice, when other Supreme Court justices in the past mentioned taking wisdom from other jurisdictions, they received death threats.

Op Ed: Healthcare Reform
Demands Responsible
Public Demonstration

D-I-Y Democracy Endangered By Citizen Ennui.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Factual probing by wide-ranging channels long ago proved up solid American public demand for direct and strong reform of our obviously now-corrupted and broken healthcare system.

Many current continuing polls, journalistic projects and formal reports from agencies involved show the same continuing demands: The American people understand their healthcare dilemma, and when properly consulted they demand true and comprehensive reform as their human right.