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Oregon Surfrider Chapters Celebrate International Surfing Day With Otter Rock N` Roll

Otter Rock N' Roll Surf Contest registration now available

(PORTLAND) - The Surfrider Foundation’s Newport, Siuslaw, and Portland Chapters have announced they will be hosting the 6th annual Otter Rock N’ Roll Youth Surf Contest and Beach Cleanup Challenge in celebration of International Surfing Day.

Observed globally, International Surfing Day celebrates the sport of surfing and helps raise awareness about issues facing our oceans, waves, and beaches.

Community Members Say Officer Bob Owings is a Hazard for Salem Residents

Salem-News.com made an effort to reach the chief of Salem Police for an interview. Salem Police Lt. Dave Okada says the chief declined the opportunity as there is an investigation into the officer's actions.

(SALEM) - Salem Police Officer Bob Owings has a temper. We all saw the video last week of Owings tasering a young man with Asperger's Syndrome, it wasn't cool.

Owings has been making a name for himself on the Salem downtown beat, the taser incident is just the latest bout of reported violence from this man who could potentially target anyone he doesn't like.

Head of OSP Office of Professional Standards Placed on Administrative Leave Pending Criminal Investigation

The reports of that investigation are now being reviewed for possible criminal charges by Senior Deputy District Attorney George Eder of the Linn County District Attorney's Office.

(SALEM) - Oregon State Police has placed the head of the Department's Office of Professional Standards on administrative leave while a criminal investigation is being conducted.

Captain Jeff Lanz, age 39, assigned to the agency headquarters in Salem, was placed on administrative leave April 29, 2014, after a criminal investigation was begun. An OSP major from outside the Salem area was assigned to conduct the investigation.

Gaza: Where Cemeteries Serve the Living

Welcome to Baraka City --Gaza

(SALEM / GAZA) - Most people know about the suffering in Gaza, or do they? Israeli propaganda groups like to send out photos of shopping malls with happy people and claim they are from Gaza, and God knows people of Gaza deserve what everyone else has, but I would bet my life on the fact that a very tiny percentage of Gazans ever actually go to a mall.

But they do go to their graves.

Frivolous Lawsuit Trends Fall Back

Lawsuits and attorneys are part of the national landscape. People should assert their legal rights as Americans

(SAN DIEGO) - A trend developed across the US during the Bush years that touted "frivolous lawsuits"; many recall this period and political climate which discouraged people from filing a law suit even when they totally deserved to be compensated.

``Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently``

The author has also been given eye-witness accounts of events surrounding late April-early May, 2014 from persons who escaped from Raqqa, some of whom now reside in Palestinian refugee camps and elsewhere in Lebanon.

(DAMASCUS) - The following is a transcript of an interview conducted by the author at the National Museum of Syria with an employee of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM).

Linn Deputies Find Body in Pond

The body, a white male adult, has not been positively identified. Sheriff Riley advises that the investigation is continuing and more information will be released as it becomes available.

(SWEET HOME, OR) - Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley reports his deputies have recovered a body from a pond near Sweet Home.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office received a call today, May 7, 2014, at 11:56 a.m. reporting a body was face down in a pond located in the 25000 block of Crescent Hill Road which is approximately 7 miles south of Sweet Home.

Mohammad Shah: He Defeated the Soviets but Could Not Help the Suffering in Home Country Burma

Mohammad Shah fought heroically, along with the great leaders like Gulbadin Hekmatyr, Rubbani, and Ahmed Shah Massoud, until all Russians were cleared from Afghan soil.

(RANGOON) - Mohammad Shah was a man of high morals, simple, brave and honest; a truth teller. He was born in 1944 in Dan Khali (Rwa Thikay) in southern Mgdaw.

His father, the late Mohammad Yusoof, was a school teacher educated from Akyab St Pol British High school and his grandfather was a rich land owner.

VA Medical Malpractice with Death: They are killing our Veterans!

Are our VA hospitals equal to NAZI death camps?

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A recent expose’ of at least 40 medical malpractice deaths at the Phoenix Arizona VA hospital brings to the forefront the fact that VA medical care is more dangerous than combat itself.

My first article about this subject was published on Salem-News.com Feb 26, 2009, “VA Malpractice with Veterans and President Obama”, with the hope of alerting whoever might be in charge, but nothing appears to have happened except for many more expose’s and articles about the obscene reports of millions in financial payouts such as the recent report from the Dayton, Ohio Daily News which posted “VA Malpractice payouts hits a 10-year high”.

Anyone for Ouija Board?
The Board Game

When the rank and file are jumping off the caboose, you'll see me climbing on the locomotive. - Joe Granville, The Kansas City Guru

(DAYTONA BEACH) - When I was a kid, there were no computer games. In fact there were no computers.

But there were games. One game, typical for its intellectual content, went like this: you had this piece of cardboard with four corner spaces and laddered spaces in between, a pair of dice and several little plastic disks. Check that – there was no plastic then, either.