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Oregon Coast Climate Conference Coincides with World Oceans Day (AUDIO)

This week, the Oregon Senate is expected to decide on a bill to study six prospective marine reserve areas for the Oregon coast that could eventually be part of a national reserve system.

(NEWPORT, Ore. ONS) - Today's celebration of "World Oceans Day" is especially timely for Oregon this year, as the Oregon Shores Coastal Climate Action Conference gets underway in Newport. For both events, a major topic is healthy oceans and climate change.

A biologist and keynote speaker at the Newport conference, Dr. Jennifer Hoffman studies how marine ecosystems adapt to changing climate conditions.

High Speed Crash Leaves Two Oregon Teenagers Dead

Police say it is not known at this time if alcohol was involved.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Police say two teens died Saturday night in a single vehicle crash on SW Laurel Road that left the vehicle they had been traveling in mangled. Sgt. Dave Thompson with the Washington County Sheriff's Office says the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed when it left the roadway and struck a tree.

PTSD=Depression: A Mis-Diagnosis?
Perpetual Anguish: Probable Cause

When the soldier or Marine is first committed to battle, apprehension is paramount concurrent with blood freezing fear and anxiety. Any Combat Veteran who does not have these feeling has probably not really been there.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - PTSD has been kicked around since about 1970 for what previously had been called SHELL SHOCK which it isn’t, and BATTLE FATIGUE which it also isn’t.

As a former WWII Combat Infantryman, Scout, Pointman and Forward Observer I would like to present my opinion based on been there, done that, seen that and now taking care of PTSD Veteran Victims.

Historic Navy PT Boat Prevented from Sinking at Rose Fest

The PT 658 is owned by Dick Lowe, a Portland resident, and normally moors at the Swan Island Navy Reserve dock in Portland.

(ASTORIA, Ore.) - Coast Guard officials say a restored Navy motor torpedo boat PT-658 was saved from sinking today after a multi-agency effort at the 2009 Portland Rose Festival in Portland, Oregon. The crew of PT-658 had just returned to the dock after taking visitors on a short cruise when flooding was discovered aboard the vessel.

Shawn Eggert with the U.S. Coast Guard explains that all of the visitors were safely evacuated to shore while Commander Russ Proctor, Coast Guard Sector Portland Deputy Commander, who happened to be aboard the vessel for the cruise, coordinated damage control efforts.

Rate of American Casualties in Iraq & Afghanistan Accelerates

Seven of the 14 killed were from states at or below the Mason-Dixon line. One is from New Mexico, one is from Pennsylvania, one is from Alaska, one is from Hawaii, one is from Nebraska and one is from New York.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The number of casualties reported out of Afghanistan and Iraq is steadily increasing. Last month was the deadliest in Iraq alone since last September.

As we complete the first week of June 2009, we report 13 servicemembers killed in the war theaters. That averages to more than two per day. Two Marines who were killed died in what the military calls non-hostile incidents and one of the 14 listed in this report is a U.S. Army soldier who also died under non-hostile circumstances.

Oregon Woman Accused of Killing Mother-to-Be & Taking Her Baby (UPDATE)

Detectives determined that the victim, a 21-year old Tigard woman, was killed by homicidal violence and her unborn male child did not survive.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - In a bizarre and tragic, developing story, Portland Police have identified a woman whose body was found in the crawlspace of a home in the Community of Marlene Village today.

President Speaks at Normandy`s 65th Anniversary Ceremony for D-Day

"May God bless you, and may God bless the memory of all those who rest here" - President Barack Obama

(NORMANDY, France) - Lyndon Johnson once said that there are certain moments when "...history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom."

The Tone and the Music: ONE MAN Spoke to the World, and the World Listened

THE TONE makes the music - and this applies also to the President's words on Israel and Palestine.

(CAIRO) - He walked onto the stage in Cairo, alone, without hosts and without aides, and delivered a sermon to an audience of billions. Egyptians and Americans, Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, Copts and Maronites - and they all listened attentively.

He unfolded before them the map of a new world, a different world, whose values and laws he spelled out in simple and clear language - a mixture of idealism and practical politics, vision and pragmatism.

Oregon Guard and U.S. Navy to Conduct Air Defense Exercise

Officials say there will be no live munitions involved in the exercise.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon National Guard soldiers and airmen, along with the U.S. Navy will participate in a U.S. Northern Command air defense exercise near Camp Rilea, Ore. in June. Exercise Amalgam Dart '09 will take place at Camp Rilea and nearby Warrenton, Ore June 18-20. It is one of several exercises under the Ardent Sentry '09 exercise series.

Driver Arrested in Fatal Traffic Crash on Interstate 82 (PHOTOS)

Before the fatal crash, the pair of men, enroute to a funeral in Salem, Oregon, were cited by police in three states for speeding.

(UMATILLA, Ore.) - Oregon State Police troopers arrested the driver of a van involved in Friday morning's fatal traffic crash that resulted in the death of a Forest Grove-area man on Interstate 82 south of Umatilla.

Prior to the fatal crash the driver, who was lodged in the Umatilla County Jail on multiple charges, had received speeding citations earlier in day from police agencies as he traveled through three other states.