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Labor Commissioner Announces Service Cuts in Employer Assistance Program

Revenue shortfall forces cancellation of seminars, further delays inpublications.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries,Brad Avakian, announced a serious cutback in services offered by BOLI’s Technical Assistance for Employers Program (TA).

The TA Program exists to answer employer questions about labor and employment law, from meal and rest periods to family and medical leave requirements, and operates a no-cost phone/email hotline as well as selling handbooks and teaching seminars.

Cold Case Homicide Team in Multnomah County Has Big Plans

MCSO Cold Case Homicide Unit's work‏

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Last year Multnomah County swore in 8 retired MCSO investigators to open and review 35 unsolved ‘cold' homicide or suspicious death cases more than two years old.

Indie Labels Headline Cherry City Music Festival

While languishing in the shadow of Portland and Seattle, Salem serves as an incubator for musicians marching to the beat of their own drum.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This spring, historic downtown Salem will transform into a bubbling cauldron of bleeding edge independent music as dozens of bands converge at the 3rd Annual Cherry City Music Festival on April 9-11, 2009 to benefit at-risk youth, diabetes awareness and arts education.

Independent record labels Kill Rock Stars, K Records, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Tender Loving Empire Records and Boy Gorilla Records host some of their top artists to entertain, inform and schmooze in a celebration of do-it-yourself ethic.

Marijuana Misinformation & Incredible Duplicity by a Money Grubbing Mercenary

Dr. Phillip Leveque is a WWII Combat Veteran, Professor of Pharmacology, Forensic Toxicologist and Osteopathic Physician.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - After studying the Pharmacology of cannabis/marijuana for some fifty years and treating some 4 thousand patients, very little surprises me. Over the weekend I did get the shock of my life.

I accidentally turned up the name Andrea Barthwell on my computer and an absolutely incredible amount of garbage was regurgitated.

Rush Limbaugh Slammed by New GOP Chairman Steele

It didn't take him long to backtrack, but for a short period the nation's first black GOP chairman called it the way it really is.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I am having a hard time picturing Republicans being led by an African-American political party chairman, but that's how it is these days, and it is nearly as comical as one might expect.

I don't mean that party chair Michael Steele is so funny and I actually think he has shown some guts with his less than flattering comments on the country's great divide; Rush Limbaugh.

President Obama Signs Illinois, Oregon and Washington Major Disaster Declarations

FEMA said additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the states and warranted by the results of further damage assessments.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The President today declared major disasters exist in the States of Illinois, Oregon and Washington.

Federal aid is order to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the areas struck by severe winter storms.

McMinnville Man Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography

The man was arrested on ten counts of Encouraging Child Sex Abuse in the second degree.

(MCMINNVILLE, Ore.) - McMinnville Police say they received information that a McMinnville resident named Peter O'Hara, of McMinnville was in possession of child pornography.

McMinnville Police Captain Rob Edgell says that based on that information, officers began an investigation and found numerous child pornography photographs downloaded on Mr. O'Hara's laptop computer.

UAE Buys Billions of Arms Amid Financial Crisis

The UAE signs USD 5-billion in arms deals during a defense show in Abu Dhabi amid a global financial crisis that has hit Arab Persian Gulf states.

(TEHRAN, Iran) - Major-General Obaid al-Ketbi said the contracts included a deal with Italy's Fincantieri to supply an anti-submarine warship and another with US companies of Boeing and Lockheed Martin for military transport aircrafts.

Some 897 companies from 50 countries participated in the five-day biennial International Defense Exhibition in Emirate's Abu Dhabi.

A Disarmed Palestinian State?

Should US or NATO troops be stationed along the Jordan River?

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - During an off-the-record meeting in Washington, DC on November 10, one of Obama's senior foreign policy advisers said pushing a two-state solution on Israel and the Palestinians had to take place with great urgency.

The adviser said it was the best way to turn around the Middle East.

Police Make Arrest in Middle School Bomb Scare

The student was placed in the custody of the Washington County Juvenile Department, who later released him to his parents.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Police say an arrest was made Friday afternoon in the February 6th bomb threat at Banks Junior High School. The suspect is a 13-year old student at the school.

Sgt. David Thompson with the Washington County Sheriff's Office says that around 3:00 p.m. Friday, the 13-year old male juvenile was arrested at his home in Banks regarding the February 6th bomb threat that caused the evacuation of Banks Junior High School.