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7th Grader Jeremy Wuitschick Saves Busload of Students - A Genuine Hero

Event was recorded by the bus video camera.

(PORTLAND, OR) - A middle school boy was a true hero today when his school bus driver collapsed at the wheel, and the boy acted instinctively, taking control of the vehicle.

Review of Sarah Gillespie`s New Music Release `The War on Trevor`

The new release also bears her trademark captivating style of music, produced by Gilad Atzmon, whose playing of the accordion, clarinet and saxophone can be pleasingly traced throughout her work.

(LONDON) - Politics and human rights have always been among the dominant themes in Sarah Gillespie's albums.

Her latest release 'The War on Trevor' - a fifteen minute music narrative divided into four sections – indulges her passion for these topics further, as the whole piece was exclusively dedicated to them.

Fiery Crash of Navy Jet Spares All

Five of the six injured people were reportedly released from the hospital before 6:00 p.m. before local time.

(VIRGINIA BEACH) - A U.S. Navy FA/18-D jet crashed into an apartment building in Virginia Beach today, just after take-off. Amazingly, according to reports, nobody died in the violent crash, however six people in the low-rise apartment complex were injured and transported from the scene.

The scene was described as a a massive inferno as the video clearly shows. The two naval aviators aboard the plane both survived.

Ali Abunimah on History & Culture

It is obvious to me that, Abunimah didn’t think it through. However, it is never too late to admit a mistake and get it right.

(LONDON) - In the clip below I elaborate on Ali Abunimah’s attitude towards history and culture.

More Cop Garbage - This Time in Oakland

The cops know pot is not harmful, they crap on state laws and make a joke of our rights.

(SALEM) - There is no respect for state's rights in the United States. Unpopular laws are not respected by our lawmakers and the people of America are getting sick of it.

Duff on Press TV - `Americans Ashamed of Troops` Atrocities in Afghanistan

Sunday Night, April Fools Day, 2012 Deadbeat Congressman Joe Walsh Goes Nuts.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - Since the beginning of 2012, seventeen foreign troops have been shot dead by Afghan personnel in 10 separate attacks.

Tensions have mounted between Afghan and US-led NATO forces this year due to a series of incidents at the hands of US troops.

White Men Can Dance

In Washington, Thomas Kennedy is released over false charges while in Oregon, Terrence Kimble continues to sit in prison. Is the fact that Kennedy is white a coincidence?

(SALEM) - A Longview, Washington man was released after being held in prison for years on a false charge of rape against his daughter.

At the age of 23, she recanted her story about being a victim as a young teenager. Because her conscience apparently kicked in. Oregon needs to follow suit.

The `Curveball` that Took Americans to War and Killed Over a Million

In case you missed the story of the Iraqi curveball, a defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi.

(SALEM) - As we lament the status of the war in Afghanistan; a situation that will soon simply be abandoned and lost... we are offered a reminder of what part of this went terribly wrong. It's called Iraq.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball, carries the dubious honor of having convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons program.

Dow Chemical Greenwashing Exposed

Dow's PR folks got a big surprise with this one...

(CAMBRIDGE, MASS) - When a Dow Chemical PR firm asked "green" author Anna Lappé to contribute a video about the future of water for Dow's greenwashing effort, she provided what they had asked for.

In her 60-second submission, Lappé stressed that toxic chemicals are one of the biggest global threats to water and people, and that Dow itself is one of the biggest sources of such threats.

Radio NPR`s Report on Violence in Balochistan

When asked which agencies were involved in enforced disappearances and killings, Balochistan communications minister Sadiq Ali Umrani quipped, "I have told you enough. If I tell you more my body will also be found along a roadside."

(SALEM) - One of American's most popular public radio stations NPR (National Public Radio) carried a news story last July about the ongoing independence struggle in occupied Balochistan.

This is a subject we explored in the recent Salem-News.com article, Balochistan & Bangladesh - Enduring Pakistan's Selective Genocide.