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Rutgers` Women`s Basketball Players Agree to Meet with Don Imus (VIDEO)

Imus has said he is a good person who made a stupid, idiotic mistake. See the video at the bottom of the page.

(PISCATAWAY, N.J.) - The players, coach, Athletic Director, and President of Rutgers University's women's basketball team during a press conference Tuesday, expressed "anger, disgust, and great hurt" over the comments made by radio talk show host Don Imus, who has been suspended for calling team members last week "nappy-headed hos" during his radio program.

Hosts Come Close to Blows on FOX TV (VIDEO)

It wasn't your average day on TV, even for the FOX network, and while punches didn't fly and chairs did not sail, it makes the viewer wonder what is happening as it quickly spirals out of control.

(NEW YORK, N.Y.) - An extraordinary shouting match broke out between FOX network hosts Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly this week. It began after O'Reilly singled out a fatal drunk driving incident in Virginia and attributed the problem to the offender's immigration status.

They were talking about Alfredo Ramos, a man charged with manslaughter and suspected of being drunk when his car crashed into another in Virginia Beach one week ago. Two teenaged girls were killed. Ramos, a Mexican who has been in the United States seven years, allegedly entered the country illegally.

Merkley Backs Cap on Consumer Loan Rates (VIDEO)

“Those lenders prey on the dire financial circumstances of some Oregonians to line their own pockets.”- House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D-Portland)

(SALEM) - House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D-Portland) today encouraged his colleagues to enact a bill that would place a 36 percent annual interest rate cap on all consumer finance loans in Oregon.

Legislative Leaders To Tour Rural Oregon Counties (VIDEO)

Thirty-two of Oregon’s 36 counties will lose federal dollars if the county payments program is not renewed.

(SALEM) - House and Senate leaders today appointed a delegation to tour counties affected by the potential loss of federal dollars from the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self Determination Act, commonly known as the “county payments” law.

Anti-Clinton Video Ad Huge With YouTube Viewers

More than 1.5 million people have already watched the video, which is included at the bottom of this story.

(SALEM) - A hugely publicized YouTube video portraying Hillary Clinton on a huge television screen addressing robot-like humans in a stark, futuristic hall is a remake of the famous Apple 1984 Super Bowl ad.

The ad has been called guerrilla politics at its cleverest and had become a hit of the YouTube video-sharing Web site.

Hillary Video Zings but Bush Baby Eating Cartoon is Side Splitting

The cartoon features an animated George Bush doing the unspeakable.

(SALEM) - While a video about Hillary Clinton inspired by a 1980's Apple advertisement is attracting worldwide attention, left leaning comedians have released a video that they say draws on humor while offering a form of relief to many critics of George W. Bush.

What the animation does it focus on Bush's track record of using Christianity as an excuse for policy, with his six covered by his spokesman and media friends who ensure he is never questioned, substantially.

Salem, Oregon Volunteers Keep Soldiers Well Supplied With Love Boxes (VIDEO)

Some of the soldier's most requested items include twinkies, peanut M&M's and beef jerky.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The holidays may be over but a group of volunteers in Salem is making sure that the gifts keep on coming to our military service men and women in Afghanistan and Iraq.

They gather monthly in the capitol city to take part in a project called Love Boxes.

For the price of the postage, they fill and mail all kinds of items to soldiers that are easy to buy in the states, but very hard to find in a war zone.

Helicopters Thunder Across Afghanistan Territory (VIDEO)

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The helcopters fly fast and low is because a fast moving target is difficult to hit when it is close to the ground.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - The thunderous blades of U.S. Army helicopters mean many things to soldiers at war.

Sometimes the sound means an infantryman is approaching battle, while other times the deafening roar is the sound of rescue and evacuation.

These helicopters making an approach in an Afghanistan mountain valley carry combat troops that are on the move. This CH-47 Chinook was also my ride back to the Afghanistan capitol, Kabul.

Female Afghan Burqa Band Breaks Barriers

“You give me all your love, you give me all your kisses, and then you touch my burqa, and don’t know who it is...” Blue Burqa Band

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - Music was banned in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Lingering attitudes from that era keep life dangerous for women there, but some are rising out of silence with a song that makes fun of the burqa, a garment worn by women in Afghanistan that covers all of their body and face.

Oregon Siblings Work Side By Side in Afghanistan (VIDEO)

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A brother-sister pair from Salem find themselves stationed together far from home.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - They may have had their battles while growing up in Oregon, but brother and sister Jay and Heather Louisiana never thought they would end up in a war zone together, in the same unit, at the same base - in Afghanistan.

They live at a mountain base where soldiers are a tight knit combat group. They say having a family support network on the base helps during the hard times.