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Salem-News.com Video Production: Put Your Business on the Map

Ever picture your business on YouTube? YouTube and Salem-News.com combined means a winning ticket for your business.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It's time to catch up with the millions of daily YouTube users who are watching the popular video Website quickly become a national pastime. We are your ticket at getting in front of countless numbers of people who want to hear your message or know about your business.

VA Busted Again Over Poor Diagnosis and Mistreatment of PTSD Vets

There are good people working for the VA, but its leadership keeps trying to cut wounded veterans off at the knees.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The true spirit of the VA reared its ugly head last week when an email in a few simple words, nearly sized up what many believe is their general policy in its treatment of combat veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder..

It all came to a head over a simple email containing a VA psychologist’s direction to staff at a Texas veterans facility to withhold diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder from soldiers.

Top UN Official Visits Cyclone Ravaged Myanmar

The UN has deployed 100 satellite terminals to facilitate in-country coordination of the humanitarian effort.

(PYAPON, Myanmar) - The United Nations’ top relief official John Holmes has travelled to the Irrawaddy delta, the area in Myanmar hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis, which struck early this month and has affected up to 2.4 million people.

As the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs travels within Myanmar, UN agencies report that they are making progress in reaching victims of the cyclone, but that the operation still needs to be ramped up.

Polls: Clinton Solid in Kentucky; Oregon is Obama`s in Tight Race

Two States Worlds Apart on Obama Popularity.

(BOSTON) - Two states. Two Democratic Primaries on the same night. And the differences in the contests are like night and day, according to a Suffolk University poll.

In Kentucky, Hillary Clinton (51 percent) led Barack Obama (25 percent) by 26 points, followed by John Edwards (6 percent) and "uncommitted" (5 percent), while 11 percent were undecided. In Oregon, Obama (45 percent) led Clinton (41 percent) by 4 points, with 8 percent undecided and 6 percent refusing a response.

`Toxic Trader` Street Theater Protesting Free Trade Premiers Outside Gordon Smith`s Office

Gordon Smith is being called out by American workers over his record on facilitating unsafe imports.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The United Steelworkers will present a primary election day premier of "The Toxic Trader," a street theater production designed to hold elected officials accountable for facilitating unsafe imports. It happens tomorrow, May 20th at noon.

Gasoline Tanker Truck Crash Halts Highway 26 in Oregon

Highway 26 is closed in both directions with a detour using Barlow Trail Road

(WELCHES, Ore.) - Police say a tanker trailer loaded with approximately 4,000 gallons of gasoline separated from the semi truck that was hauling it this morning and crashed off the side of Highway 26.

It happened about 1 1/2 miles west of Welches Road on Highway 26, which remains closed as the company is off-loading the remaining gasoline into another tanker trailer and ODOT has a detour in place.

Obama Supporters Rock Downtown Portland, Oregon

During a campaign fundraiser Saturday night in Portland, Obama said in order for Democrats to win in Novemeber it will require a unified Party and that means all of you have to be nice to Clinton supporters.

(PORTLAND, Ore. ) - Whoever said Oregonains don't know how to throw a great party had better think again.

Sunday afternoon, an estimated 75,000 people -- 60,000 inside the gates and another 15,000 outside -- some even on boats and rafts on the Willamette River -- jammed Waterfront Park in downtown Portland to hear Sen. Barack Obama speak at a rally.

PTSD: One Million Plus American Military Victims

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - It is comforting for me as a combat infantryman and physician for PTSD victims to see an article in the Oregonian newspaper on PTSD citing disgrace over the gross mistreatment of not only hundreds of thousands of battle veterans, but the mistreatment of all PTSD veterans going back even to the Civil War.

The figures usually given by the newspapers is 300 thousand PTSD veterans. What is not mentioned is their families. They have PTSD also. One of the symptoms or signs of PTSD is hypervigilance, in other words veterans are as "jumpy as a cat".

Roger Yost Launches Scholarship Program For School Artists

The show involves hundreds of students in Art.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem Downtown Civic Leader Roger Yost, who in the last year has created one of Oregon’s largest art galleries at his Alessandro’s Ristorante, is launching an art scholarship program for Salem high school students.

Motorcycle Chase Leads to Arrest Near Donald

Local residents direct a deputy to a chase suspect who apparently thought he was in the clear.

(DONALD, Ore.) - A Marion County deputy says he is grateful to members of the Donald community for assisting him in locating a motorcycle rider that he says gave chase at speeds up to 114 MPH.