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Horse Rescued From Ravine After Falling 40 Feet

It is a happy ending for a Clearlake family, after a 5 hour successful rescue of their horse.

(KEIZER, Ore.) - Sunday at about 7:00 AM, firefighters from Marion County Fire District #1 and support personnel from Turner Fire District responded to Wheatland Rd. NE near River Rd NE to assist a local resident with an injured horse.

Officials say the horse had become frightened from a night on the loose and sometime early morning, fell approx 40 feet down a cliffs edge, landing in a ravine below.

The Vital Mission of U.S. Air Support in Iraq (VIDEO)

Tim King is embedded with Oregon's 2/641 Aviation Support Group in Balad, Iraq and filed this report from the flightline where they operate.

(BALAD, Iraq) - Members of the Oregon National Guard have a big mission on their hands and minds over the next several months. Their tour of duty in Iraq is an aviation support mission.

The 2/641 Aviation Support Group's specific responsibility, revolves around the C-23 Sherpa transport plane, known to these soldiers simply as "The Boxcar".

Major Brian Houston is a Blackhawk pilot who drew this unique mission that supports not helicopters, but large cargo planes and another type of high-speed Army transport planes known as "White Birds".

14-Year Old Tualatin Girl Missing

Tiffany Rosado did not go to the Tualatin High School Football game Friday evening, did not return home all weekend and did not attend school on Monday.

(TUALATIN, Ore.) - Friday evening, September 12th, a 14-year-old Tualatin High School sophomore was reported as a missing person by her mother.

Police Praise Oktoberfest Organizer`s Hard Work as DUII Arrests Drop

Oktoberfest was a great success, thanks to the responsible drivers who kept it safe.

(SALEM, Ore.) - DUII arrests made by Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers, Marion County Sheriff's Office deputies and Mt. Angel police dropped in comparison to previous years during 2008 Oktoberfest in Mt. Angel.

Police agencies reported seven people were arrested for DUII, two of which involved individuals attending Oktoberfest activities. Last year officers reported 11 DUII arrests, ten involving people attending the event. During the 2006 Oktoberfest, officers arrested nine DUII drivers.

Dangerous Times

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. [Sinclair Lewis, 1935] HIS PREDICTION seems ON THE VERGE OF COMING TRUE

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - There are a number of ways to look at Presidential Campaigns, and McCain’s age is an important one. Another is the increased influence of Evangelism.

For a vote for McCain may well be a vote for Sarah Palin, a woman whose fundamentalism is all the Republican’s Far Right [its passive-voice] could hope for. If she passes her first test, it remains to be seen how she will handle the test of being President, if necessary.

If she proves to be a good Christian-Soldier doing as she is told, America could regress toward the Middle-Age [c.1000 A.D.-15000 A.D.] when Roman Catholicism became all powerful, but also corrupt.

Wheeling in Help From U.S. Families to Iraqi People (VIDEO)

Soldiers go the extra mile to make a difference in Iraq.

(BALAD, Iraq) - On this day, U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Iraq made a big difference for the life of one Iraqi citizen. People in this faraway land of war and hardship have few alternatives when it comes to things like wheelchairs.

To help change that, one soldier's family in Minnesota decided to take matters into their own hands and they have been sending a number of these into Iraq to help the local people here.

Sgt. Jonathan Fondow is the man who spearheaded this mission.

"Iraq has one of the highest percentages of handicapped people in the world. They just don't have the facilities or the medical doctors to take care of these people. So we're just doing whatever we can to help them."

HempStalk 2008 Gives Legalization Activists a Voice

"Relax it, Tax it!" was the mantra heard throughout the 2-day festival.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Bringing Oregon's hemp movement to center stage, HempStalk 08 created an environment where rational discussion regarding Cannabis legalization was the norm.

Marijuana Doctors and Schizophrenia

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician Pharmacologist and Toxicologist. After surviving WWII, he went on to treat veterans for years who suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - After going through almost ten years of medical marijuana patients I’m beginning to think that the movie Reefer Madness was correct in its title - but it wasn’t the lousy actors who were acting crazy but the people who had it made.

I’m sure Harry Aslinger had a lot to do with it. He was like the vicious drug czars anti-marijuana fakers of this day - all hat and nothing under the hat in the way of brains and knowledge that marijuana had been used safely as medicine for at least 4 thousand years without any deaths and was the most popular medicine in the U.S. from 1850 till at least 1900.

Dangerous Times in Iraq War Zone

Victims from a car bomb attack fill the hospital at the Balad Joint Air Base

(BALAD, Iraq) - A sandstorm reminiscent of a Hollywood movie is descending over the base in Iraq where I have been for the last few weeks, yet it seems like small change next to other events here in the last two days.

Medical personnel from all over Balad were called out last night as victims from a car bomb that exploded in an undisclosed location launched medical crews and helicopter
rescue teams into action. The victims from what I understand were soldiers from the Iraqi Army and small children who reportedly received serious burns.

Medical technicians told me that it was as busy of a night as any they have seen in the past three to four months. The sandstorm accompanied by wild lightning strikes only seemed to raise the tension.

Iraq`s July 14th Bridge: Baghdad Divided (VIDEO)

It is almost a tale of two cities; Baghdad's International Zone continues to see relative peace while the unsecured Red Zone is another story.

(BAGHDAD, Iraq) - Soldiers stationed in the Green or 'International Zone' of Baghdad, like Andrew Hanselman, a Public Affairs Specialist with the U.S. Army, say there is a relative state of calm that is not the case on the other side of the Tigris River, in what is known as the 'Red Zone'.

Baghdad's International Zone is a relatively safe place for both Americans and Iraqi people today. The other side of the bridge however, is a different story. The bridge itself is of historical significance to the people of Iraq.