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19-Year Old Canby Woman Missing Since Wednesday
*UPDATE* FOUND

Missing Canby nineteen-year old, Alicia Morgan, has been located on Courtney Road in Milwaukie. Police say she is no longer of interest and has been returned to her parents in Canby.

(CANBY, Ore.) - *UPDATE: FOUND*
A 19-year old woman from Canby is missing and police are hoping someone in the community knows the whereabouts of Alicia Morgan. She suffers from autism and was last seen November 12th 2008.

Officers with the Canby Police Department responded to the address on NW Knights Bridge Road Friday on a missing person call. Nineteen year old Alicia Morgan, who has autism, was last seen leaving the residence on Wednesday morning. Police say they are not sure what type of clothing Alicia was wearing.

Sgt. Scott Cunningham says the investigation into the whereabouts of Alicia Morgan is ongoing.

Peaceful Protestor to be Arrested at Oregon Capitol

A former Salem Mayor and attorney says the First-Amendment rights of Michele Darr, who has been on a food strike for 14 days, are being violated.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Following the delivery of a letter to Governor Kulongoski earlier today, Michele Darr was set to be arrested at 11:30 PM Friday. Darr has been vigiling and fasting in protest the deployment of the Oregon National Guard on the capitol building's steps since November 1st.

Despite the capitol building steps being public property, Darr has been issued a citation for criminal trespass. Darr and fellow citizens spoke to the police who they say were apologetic about the situation, but explained that it was "a reaffirmed administrative order".

Thursday, two-time Salem Mayor and civil rights attorney Mike Swaim advised Darr that this is a violation of her first amendment rights. In 1983, US vs. Grace upheld a protestor's right to public forums, including state buildings.

Search Underway for Missing Person in Marion County
*UPDATE*
Woman Found Uninjured

The woman is described as having limited mental capacity.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Marion County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a 47-year old female who was last seen today at approximately 10:30 AM.

UPDATE:
On 11-14-08, at 5:00 pm, Kathleen Hurtado was located near Haysville and Riemann Street NE, approximately 6 miles from the location she was last seen. It appears she walked to that location and was sitting on a curb when a concerned citizen approached her to ask if she was okay. Ms Hurtado was cold and hungry and it appeared she may have fallen but she was uninjured.

The Sheriff's Office would like to take this opportunity to thank the citizen who made contact with Ms Hurtado.

Las Vegas Magician Jackson Rayne Returns Home for Show Tour

A Salem illusionist returns to perform one of the most dangerous escapes in the history of magic.

(LAS VEGAS, Nv.) - Illusionist Jackson Rayne is coming home. The Las Vegas-based magician is preparing to return to Salem, Oregon to perform for the first time in nearly 5 years.

Rayne is a graduate of Willamette University in Salem. His 90 minute magic production is set for Friday, December 12th, at 7:30 p.m. at the Historic Elsinore Theatre. General admission tickets are available for $20 at the door. They are also available at all local TicketsWest outlets or by phone at 1-800-992-TIXX.

“I got my start performing for the Silent Movie Series at the Elsinore,” says Rayne. “I’m thrilled to be coming home to Salem. I have so many memories here and I can’t wait to share my magic with the community.”

Government Beats
The `Free Market`
With Simple Tariff

Foundation of power overwhelms world of dollars.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - “Free trade” has never been truly “free”. Even its most vocal and varied corporate-interest propagators have always bowed to the potency of government.

They well know they have no choice so long as sovereignty trumps globalization. Those worldly potent-power representatives invited to Washington this week by a “retiring” President Bush know the true nature of the game.

Many have famously (OR notoriously) played the tariff-card whenever “national interest” could somehow conceivably be cited. Bush’s impassioned pleading in defense of ostensibly “free trade” rings false and even foolish in the ongoing rush into globalization now underway worldwide. But then, why is that a surprise ? What else has his regime been providing, pandering, and proving so potently and promiscuously for its full eight years?

Vietnam War Crimes Suspect William Doyle Dies

William Doyle, the face of Vietnam crimes, dead at 75.

(SPRINGFIELD, Mo.) - Americans today largely seem to have forgotten the costly mistakes of the Vietnam War; errors that reduced credibility and ruined the popularity of defeating the Communists in that SE Asian country. One of the soldiers who helped solidify the angst and resentment toward our military was William Doyle, a "face of Vietnam crimes" who died this week in Springfield, Missouri at the age of 75.

Santa Ana Winds Drive California Wildfires Toward Celebrity Homes (VIDEO)

Santa Ana Winds Fuel Raging California Wildfire Threaten Celebrity Homes and Westmont College

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) - Santa Ana winds that developed on Thursday will continue into Sunday in Southern California. They have fueled a raging wildfire that has destroyed at least 100 homes in a celebrity enclave near Montecito, according to AccuWeather.com.

The winds began on Thursday as high pressure built over the Intermountain West. By Thursday night, the winds known locally as "sundowners" were gusting to as high as 70 mph through the canyons and passes of Southern California.

The winds fed the "Tea Fire" that broke out Thursday evening in the foothills of Montecito, just southeast of Santa Barbara. Associated Press and Fox News Channel report that by this morning, the fast-moving blaze has destroyed as many as 100 luxury homes and parts of a college campus.

Businessmen are Bad for Capitalism, Says Libertarian Party

Party believes CEOs and government assistance stand in the way of economic turnaround.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - "CEOs and government 'altruism' are standing in the way of effective economic turnaround," says Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis.

"Businessmen are bad for capitalism when they use the government as life support for failing ventures," explains Davis. "Instead of letting other companies absorb these failing businesses, CEOs and government bailouts have distorted the natural forces of capitalism and prevented the necessary—and effective—economic turnaround that only comes through an unfettered free market. These bailouts do nothing but prolong the inevitable collapse of companies suffering from extreme mismanagement and poor investments."

"The Libertarian Party is adamantly opposed to any sort of bailout of American corporations who, through their own mismanagement, find themselves at the brink of failure," says Davis.

Woman in China Faces Imminent Forced Abortion (VIDEO)

China's treatment of Muslim minority citizens is often shocking.

(HONG KONG) - Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she is entitled to only two children.

As a member of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority, Tursun is legally permitted to more than the one child allowed most people in China. But when word of a third pregnancy reached local authorities, they coerced her into the hospital for an abortion, her husband told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

"Arzigul is being kept in bed number three," a nurse in the women's section at Gulja's Water Gate Hospital said in a telephone interview with RFA's Uyghur service.

The Politics of Religion - Part One

Reasons for war range from economics to religion, but expansionism was supposed to be a lesson we already learned.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Since the turn of the 21st century, religion has become a more serious concern for the American people because the assumed authority of President Bush comes from his belief that he is God's Active Voice and refers to himself as “The Decider.”