As reported by Betsy Hammond in “The Oregonian,” the Oregon House Education Committee is calling for improvements in its anti-bullying, anti-harassment laws.  They’re responding to the Oregon Healthy Teens Survey which stated that more than 40 percent of Oregon eighth-graders reported being subjected to name-calling, bullying or other harassment at school, with the highest rates […]

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Yreka California- Monday morning at 4:30am an intruder went in to the home of 3 year old Francis Collins and abducted her. Francis is 3 ft tall and 30 pounds and she has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen in a tie dye shirt. Her abductor is Cody Kaplin a 22 year […]

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25 Years Later
Diane Downs: Convicted Killer Mom Has Parole Hearing
What the Parole Board Said

Diane Downs, the sociopath mom who shot her three children, was denied parole yesterday by the state of Oregon.
The Oregon state parole board deliberated two hours yesterday after 53-yr-old Downs answered questions via closed-circuit television from Valley State Prison for Women in […]

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Diane Downs, The Murder Mom from “Small Sacrifices” Fame
Is Up for Parole 25 Years After Shooing Her Three Children

One Child Dead, One Wheelchair-Bound for Life
Mother Claimed She Was Victim of a Drug Hit
Diane Downs, the subject of true crime author Ann Rule’s book, Small Sacrifices is up for parole on December 9 in the […]

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Thomas Beatie, 34 was born a woman but decided about 10 years ago to have the sex changed so he could become a legal man. During the process he kept his female reproductive organs but he did have his breasts removed surgically so he could have a flat chest and then went through hormone treatment.
Beatie […]

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“I am wearing a hemp g-string. The real American fabric of our lives!”
–Jennifer Moss, formerly “The Pastie Lady” & “Earth Friend Jen”; new nickname: “The Naked Lady”

Jennifer Moss–with clothes on–campaigns
for the environment and hemp.
Jennifer Moss, the Environmental Exhibitionist–also known as “The Pastie Lady”, “The Naked Lady” and “Earth Friend Jen”–is back in the news again. […]

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I remember it being a joke in my family as I was growing up that you can never find too many uses for a roll of duct tape. There have been jokes spread out all over how a Man without a roll of duct tape in his tool box was unheard of.
This morning as I […]

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Jumping off a sinking ship and jumping on the bandwagon are just doing what comes naturally, right? Not for Hillary Clinton’s supporters in KY, who stuck by their candidate, despite the certainty that Barack Obama’s win in OR would push him past her in pledged delegates. And as in WV and other states in which […]

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Barack Obama (D-IL) had said that IN would be the tie-breaker, after Hillary Clinton (D-NY) won PA and he won NC as he was expecting to. And so the tie was broken – but just barely. Hillary won IN 51 percent to 49 percent, and lost NC by 41 percent to 56 percent.
Hillary’s disappointing […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the “MySpace Mayor”, in her 15 minutes of fame picture–which led to her recall by the citizens of Arlington, OR.
When you’re caught posing on the town’s firetruck in your underwear and you lose your job, there’s only one thing left to do in America: sue.
Carment Kontur-Gronquist, dubbed the “MySpace Mayor” from Arlington OR, […]

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The lilly smelling three foot long lilly white spitting earthworm is going extinct, and it’s Bush’s fault.
Well, actually, the Palouse earthworm had been thought to be extinct already, since the last one was sighted in 1988, but now that an Idaho scientist found one in 2006.
So now conservationists are suing the administration to try to […]

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The Citizens of Arlington, OR have Spoken
Carmen Kontur-Gronquist is no Longer Mayor
Mayor Stripped to Underwear for MySpace, Town Stripped the Mayor of Her Job
Will the MySpace Mayor Ride Quietly into the Sunset?

The most famous underwear in small-town mayoral politics has surfaced–so to speak–again.
This time, it has cost Carmen Kontur-Gronquist her job as Arlington, […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist Posed in her Underwear for her MySpace Page
Some of the Town’s Citizens Were Not Impressed
MySpace Mayor now Fights Off Recall Effort
“I’m not going to change who I am. There’s a lot of officials that have a personal life, and you have people in this community who have nothing better to do than […]

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Well before the September 11 terror attacks, U.S. government officials worried about Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and other despots creating and stockpiling biological weapons – and supplying terrorist groups with the means to wipe out entire cities with smallpox infection, for instance.
Because no one had ever followed the health status of people who had acquired […]

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Last month, New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced that the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) would reverse a post-9/11 policy by the Pataki administration to deny a driver’s license to anyone who could not prove legal status – immediately prompting at least a dozen county clerks who operate DMV offices as agents of […]

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Rob serves up fresh corn for today’s Lunch, filing this report from Oregon to discuss John McCain and ethanol subsidies.
Watch Now!

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It might be a good idea to be careful (or extremely anonymous), when reporting a data breach.
Jaikumar Vijayan at Computer World is reporting an interesting case — where reporting a data breach brought about some personal grief for both the person, who reported it — and the person they reported it to.
This person, who was […]

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I feel I must warn you that the following news item is not for the weak of heart or easily creeped out…
Jesse Courtney, a 9-year-old in Oregon, is hearing his mother a little better these days since Dr. David Irvine removed two spiders from Jesse’s left ear canal. Jesse had complained of an earache and […]

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The story of James Kim, who died of hypothermia in a remote part of Oregon after setting out on foot to seek help for his stranded family, was a sad capper to the year 2006 for many. A lot of things went wrong for the Kims as they started out for a holiday trip only […]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands.
In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases are […]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.”
Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement:
In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after verification of […]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now - I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.”
I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were selling […]

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       Let’s see, we have a stolen truck in the pole barn…stolen electricity leading to it…a drug lab in there…chemicals in there…and the police “interview” the residents? I would love to be a fly on the wall for that interview.
(Note:for the slow of mind the below is complete fiction intended for comedic purposes and should in […]

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   We do not all drive the same way. For some of us this means it takes a bit longer to get where we want to go or maybe we are the people who stay out of the fast lane (or should). Face it, there are a lot of people on the roads today who […]

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     Bandon Dunes was rated as a top course so golfing legend Arnold Palmer thought he would drop in and play a round. But horror of horrors, the guy behind the counter expected him to pay.
    As Palmer pointed out, “That’s the first time I’ve had to pay to play golf since I was 17.”
     On […]

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