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List of Ships with Agent Orange Exposure ConfirmedFebruary 20, 2010, 11:11 am 6 comments in the last 180 days. comments
List of Ships with Agent Orange Exposure Confirmed.

The VA this week outlined which ships are now considered to have been exposed to Agent Orange during Viet Nam. A number of offshore “blue water” naval vessels conducted operations on the inland “brown water” rivers and delta areas of Vietnam.


6 Crucial Business Travel TipsDecember 13, 2022, 3:11 pm 5 comments in the last 180 days. comments
6 Crucial Business Travel Tips.

Business travel is an essential business aspect. Traveling for business allows you to network with other industry professionals while meeting new people and connecting with prospective customers.


The Root of Violence Is Oppression.October 7, 2023, 8:48 pm 5 comments in the last 180 days. comments
The Root of Violence Is Oppression..

Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government may have just declared war, but its war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago.


O Little Town in Occupied TerritoryDecember 26, 2012, 8:13 pm 4 comments in the last 180 days. comments
O Little Town in Occupied Territory.

What people might not know is that the city of Bethlehem today is not in Israel but in Palestine, and that it is a bustling city with 28,000 people. One third of them are Palestinian Christians. 

When Christians today sing “O little town of Bethlehem” they seldom think of the real city with the real people.


Aumsville Man Gets Lengthy Prison Term for Assaulting 6-Month-Old BoyJuly 4, 2014, 6:38 am 2 comments in the last 180 days. comments
Aumsville Man Gets Lengthy Prison Term for Assaulting 6-Month-Old Boy.

A former Oregon National Guard Soldier from Aumsville will spend nearly nine years in prison for assaulting his ex-girlfriends 6-month-old son. Robert Pinsky was convicted of first-degree assault in a Marion County Courtroom and Judge Vance Day sentenced Pinksy to 105 months in prison, and he is not able to receive any time off of his Measure 11 sentence.


Disconnecting War from Its ConsequencesJune 3, 2023, 6:13 pm 2 comments in the last 180 days. comments
Disconnecting War from Its Consequences.

Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. Sanity lost in the House, 420-1. It lost in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s lone vote for sanity remains a tiny light of courageous hope flickering in a chaotic world.


Police Search in McMinnville May Have Led to Discovery of Christopher Lampkin's BodySeptember 5, 2007, 9:07 pm 2 comments in the last 180 days. comments
Police Search in McMinnville May Have Led to Discovery of Christopher Lampkin's Body.

The remains of a Salem man named Christopher Lampkin who has been missing since April 2006, may have been discovered on a farm on SW Oldsfield Road in McMinnville this week. Information released today by Prosecutor Courtland Geyer confirms that a warrant, served by Salem Police, was related to the ongoing investigation into the murder of Christopher Marcus Lampkin, though he says a positive identification has not been made at this point.


Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in Salem Burning Body DeathDecember 5, 2006, 12:05 pm 2 comments in the last 180 days. comments
Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in Salem Burning Body Death.

Twenty-six year old Philip Michael Florek, a convicted sex offender, who faces charges of murder, abuse of a corpse and failure to register as a sex offender, in the death of 20-year-old June Inez “Candy Kell, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Marion County Court. Florek, was indicted by a Marion County grand jury in September in connection with Kell’s death. Kell’s burning body was found Aug. 29th by a Salem police officer beneath a 13th Street SE bridge. Florek, was indicted by a Marion County grand jury in September in connection with Kell’s death. Florek is being held at the jail without bail.


Veterans Kept in the Dark Over Chemical ExposureNovember 1, 2010, 10:18 pm 2 comments in the last 180 days. comments
Veterans Kept in the Dark Over Chemical Exposure.

DOD is the biggest owner of EPA Superfund sites. The contaminants and health effects of exposure are published on the EPA Superfund website. A simple website hyperlink to military installations on the National Priority List (EPA Superfund), identifying the contaminants and health effects can save lives, but no one seems interested in setting up this hyperlink.


EXCLUSIVE: Diane Downs Never Held a Weapon, How Could She Have Shot Her Kids?May 20, 2013, 3:24 am 1 comments in the last 180 days. comments
EXCLUSIVE: Diane Downs Never Held a Weapon, How Could She Have Shot Her Kids?.

It's hard to say exactly what convicted Diane Downs in the shooting of her children, a terrible event that played out on a dark night in 1983. If one word plays into the scenario over and over, it is "emotion" and that is indeed a raw, powerful determiner of guilt in many cases, sometimes appropriately, sometimes not.


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