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Fatal Crash Kills One Near Dundee on Highway 99W

Motorists should avoid the area or expect delays. Highway 18 is open and has not been affected.

(DUNDEE, Ore.) - Oregon State Police are on the scene of a fatal traffic crash on Highway 99W near milepost 27. The area is about two miles north of Highway 18.

They advise that the highway is closed as a result of the crash. At this time the Oregon Department of Transportation is on the scene with a detour in place.

U.S. Soldier Receives Distinguished Service Cross

With his Special Forces team surrounded by Taliban fighters, the soildier volunteered to lead a relief force to rescue 2 wounded colleagues.

(FORT BRAGG, N.C.) - A Special Forces Soldier who crawled 200 feet while being fired upon to save wounded soldiers, then led the besieged group to safety, received the Army's second-highest award for valor, April 30th.

New Federal Report on Marijuana Use is Misleading, Groups Say

Is this a reaction to the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition?

(SALEM, Ore.) - A new federal government report on the ill effects of marijuana on teens may be a last ditch effort to demonize the medical weed before it sees its own day of emancipation. As it stands, even the most hardcore marijuana legalization advocates do not support children using anything that causes intoxication.

Special Report on the Salem Area Chamber`s Show Biz 2008 (VIDEO)

Watch this special half hour video program on Show Biz 2008 produced by Salem-News.com.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com visited Show Biz 2008 early Thursday afternoon, for a good look at all of the Salem Chamber of Commerce vendors who set up to share product and service information with other business owners and thousands of residents who visit Show Biz every year.

Mercy Corps` Top European Official Heads to Myanmar

Agency mobilizes team to assess needs and begin on-the-ground response, humanitarian access remains challenging.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The global relief and development agency Mercy Corps is sending its top European official to Myanmar, and hopes to have several other members of an emergency-response team in the country in the coming week. Mervyn Lee, executive director of Mercy Corps Europe, is expected to arrive early next week.

Once on the ground, Mercy Corps staff will work with partner agencies to help assess needs and explore opportunities to ease suffering in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.

Boeing Begins Contract Talks With Machinists Union

Boeing will negotiate new contracts with its two largest unions this year.

(SEATTLE) - Boeing (NYSE:BA) and the International Association of M and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today began negotiating a new labor contract for more than 26,000 employees, largely in the Seattle area, Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kansas.

Portland Water Bureau Warns Residents Against Imposters

While the Water Bureau must make home visits in certain circumstances, a Water Bureau employee will never collect money from a customer at the home.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Portland Water Bureau was alarmed to find that a person posing as a Water Bureau employee successfully scammed $44 out of a customer last week. Showing up at her front door, the imposter demanded $40 from the customer in order to keep her water on.

Coincidentally, the victim was nearing a three-day shut-off period, a warning given to customers who have not paid their bills.

Little-Known Program Supplies Marijuana to Four Patients

The Federal Medical Marijuana Program marks its 30th anniversary tomorrow.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - A little-known federal government program that supplies medical marijuana to a handful of patients will mark its 30th anniversary on May 10th.

Help Could be En Route to Burma

UN appeals for $187 million to aid Myanmar cyclone victims.

(GENEVA) - The United Nations today appealed for $187 million to help provide humanitarian relief to some 1.5 million people severely affected by the recent cyclone in Myanmar for the next six months.

Launching the Flash Appeal in New York on behalf of 10 UN agencies and 9 non-governmental organizations, the UN’s top relief official emphasized that “the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe is enormous.”

Op Ed: `Pretentious` Pundits
Pervert, Trivialize
Citizen Decisions

"Free Press"-principles reduced to recycled-rubbish, issues are ignored.

(SALEM, Ore.) - America’s most crucial citizen decisions in more than a century are being “slobbered-over and stupid-ified” by overly-pretentous “ratings-fed pundits-of-the press and broadcast-media”.

They profess portentiously-probing knowledge of national-issue significance, while burying their actual participation under tons of minor trivialities; program-time/wasting repeat-accusations; false-celebrity sayings, and the most-recent/rumors of political rape and revolt; ad nauseam.