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Law Enforcement for Youth is gearing up for the 2010 Shop with a Cop

(Salem, Oregon) - Law Enforcement for Youth is gearing up for the 2010 Shop with a Cop. Our Shop with a Cop program provides an opportunity for local youth in need to partner with a law enforcement officer to shop together for a holiday gift. Law Enforcement for Youth provides each youth participant with a $25.00 gift card.

This event is a great opportunity for youth to develop a positive relationship with the law enforcement community. Many of the participants may also be recieving their only holiday present.

T.V. Junk: Another Drug

Lets always keep in mind that T.V. junk is just as dangerous, if not even more so, than terrorism and drugs.

(MADRID) - It is clear that televised Media walks a path of bad taste, vulgarity, rudeness, and mediocrity. Violence, sex, the addiction to private lives, and the lack of even the most basic moral, ethical, and social life values.

All of this founded upon one objective: the each time more radicalized research for profitability. To reach this objective, the audience is the only thing that matters.

Television for Kids

A final reflection: efforts must be headed towards a more open, more free, and especially, a more diverse Media.

(MADRID) - The social passivity that reality has created does not know how to look for other ways to spend its leisure time. This represents an empirical example of something that is not functioning well in our society.

In principle, it seems as if reading, discussions, family time, friend reunions, and studies are things of another world.

Shannon Tavares (In Memorial) The Lion King

Shannon's contributions in this lifetime were amazing.

(CLEVELAND) - Broadway Actress Shannon Tavares, who performed in “The Lion King”, who was 11-years old, died Monday after losing a battle with leukemia. The news was confirmed by her family Monday.

After experiencing lower back and leg pain, Shannon was diagnosed last April with acute myeloid leukemia, which is also known as AML.

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant. Our commitment to one another, to human rights, and the ability to learn should always keep us connected no matter the severity and complexity of problems.

Oregon Shows its Heart by Arresting `Delinquent` Parents

How does Oregon benefit by taking a parent who can't pay their bills, and placing them in an overcrowded taxpayer funded jail?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon's Attorney General says arrests of moms and dads in the Portland area and a new Website are part of an effort to raise awareness about the importance of child support collection in Oregon.

Dissolvable Tobacco Dubbed `Candy` by Oregon`s Sen. Merkley

Merkley urges Oregonians to share concerns Over dissolvable tobacco products with FDA; comment period begins this week...

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week opened a 60-day comment period on dissolvable tobacco candy products. Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley urged Oregonians to submit their stories and opinions relating to the sale, distribution, and use of tobacco candy to the FDA.

“Tobacco candy poses two significant threats to our children,” Merkley said.

Soles4Souls Announces Completion of First Haiti Housing Project

Soles4Souls has provided sustained relief to Haiti since the earthquake in January, including distributing more than 1 million pairs of shoes to the victims.

(NASHVILLE, Tn.) - Soles4Souls Inc., the international shoe charity dedicated to providing shoes to people in need, announced this morning it has finished construction on its first housing project in Haiti.

A Strong Woman vs A Woman Of Strength

Dedicated to Salem-News.com's Bonnie King and other women who set the bar high.

(CLEVELAND) - Many women's names are featured prominently on the list of the world's most noteworthy leaders. Overcoming all types of adversity and hardship, these are people who held fast to their values, making the world a better place.

There are so many qualities that are connected to these leaders. Confidence, the ability to reason, diplomacy, and always the dominating factor, that is love.

AMBER Alert Activated Over Reported Child Abduction in Spokane

Authorities say that the children may be in the company of Chad Phillips, a 33-year old white male, who may be traveling in a 1996 Dark Green Chevrolet Monte Carlo vehicle.

(SPOKANE, Wash.) - The AMBER Alert System has been activated for a missing children's case out of Spokane, Washington.

Washington State Patrol reports that they are looking for children who were last seen at W 1100 Mallon in Spokane, Wash. They believe these children are in danger.