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Help a Brother and Sister With Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Any donation would be greatly appreciated by the family.

(FRISCO CITY, AL) - I am writing in honor of a friend of mine's grand kids. They both suffer from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. They are having their 2nd Annual Walk-n-Roll for SMA in honor of Alexus & Zane Saturday, April 26th, 2014. I am writing to see if any of you would like to donate to the SMA foundation in their honor. The SMA has been very helpful to Becky and Edward Dick, the parents of Alexus and Zane.

The family is also preparing cook books with southern recipes for sale in April. The cook books will be $20. If you would like to order one, let me know and I will let Becky know.

Son of Murdered Keizer Couple Charged in Double Homicide Along With Second Teen

Although both suspects are 17-years old, the crimes they have been arrested for are Ballot Measure 11 offenses.

(KEIZER) - On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 11:28 p.m., members of the Keizer Police Department responded to 4826 Ventura Loop North after receiving information an alarm had been activated at the residence. While enroute to the location, officers learned there was a male subject inside the residence who reported he had been shot.

Medical personnel from the Keizer Fire District were dispatched to the location while the initial responding officers attempted to make contact with the gunshot victim and render the scene secure.

Sexist Culture Still Bars Women from Driving in Saudi Arabia

International Women’s Day (March 8th) sees women in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia with little to celebrate.

(DUBLIN) - A strong system of customs and laws in Saudi Arabia keep women heavily reliant on men for their basic day-to-day survival. A song satirizing Saudi Arabia’s driving ban for women, ‘No Woman, No Drive’, has the desert kingdom rocking. Dozens of Saudi women’s rights activists have been in trouble for defying the driving ban by staging "protest drives".

In the past, women have had a grim acceptance of their lot, but old ways are quietly being questioned for nowhere in the Koran does it say women cannot drive or lead a normal life.

Woman Loses Pet Dog in Salem Apartment Fire

Elderly female resident fortunately was not home when the fire broke out.

(SALEM) - Salem firefighters responded to an apartment fire tonight shortly after 8:00 pm, at 3235 Felina Ave NE. Due to the nature of the fire, a second alarm was called before the first units arrived on the scene.

Nobody was hurt, Salem Fire Dept. Battalion Chief Reed Godfrey explained, but the woman did lose her dog in the fire.

Ukraine vs. Egypt: Chaos in Progress

“Obviously, I was watching the Ukrainian version of the Tahrir Square revolution. Is it a coincidence? Is it only my imagination? … I don’t think so”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Though I’ve never been to Ukraine or Russia before but the minute I started following the news of the huge protests in Kiev, I felt like I was somehow connected /related in a strange way to this Ukrainian revolution.

This whole revolution thing sounded not so unfamiliar to me.

A Victory for Nonviolent Palestinian Resistance (Segue versione in italiano)

South Hebron Hills Popular Committee Nonviolently Prevents Israeli Forces from Halting Construction of a Kindergarten.

(AT TUWANI, Occupied Palestine) - On Sunday afternoon while Palestinians were building the structure for a new kindergarten in the South Hebron Hills village of At Tuwani, Israeli officials and army came to confiscate the building materials.

Palestinian men, women and children, successfully prevented the Israeli forces from taking away most of the materials through a nonviolent action.

Syria: The Crime and the Criminals

Video examines tragic evolution of the western effort to strike liberties and earn endless billions for the deadly defence industry.

(BANGKOK) - The Syrian civil war, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising, call it what you will, was not home grown in Syria by Syrians with differing outlooks as to how their nation should be governed.

This is what the mainstream media would have you believe — that it was part of a strategy pre-planned by vicious, sociopathic foreigners called “Neocons” and they began their planning in 1991...

Police Brutality, Worse Today in America Than Ever

My biggest question... what programs and organizations exist that teach cops a better way?

(SALEM) - Cowards, bullies... cops who abuse American citizens are out of control and when they are jailed for brutalizing people, man what bad day they are going to have.

I've seen cops on the verge of being locked up and they look like scared, guilty little children.

China`s Stealth Chengdu J-20 Jet Fighter Rivals American F-22

The plane was first observed flying in grainy photographs in late 2010.

(SALEM) - A new Chinese fighter jet with stealth capabilities, the Chengdu J-20, was observed conducting a successful test flight Saturday at noon.

Photos and video of the flight were leaked on military forums like Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

Channel 4 Refutes Sri Lanka`s Propaganda Offensive

To counter this misleading attack on its journalism, Channel 4 had taken the unusual step of publishing a detailed 20,000 word rebuttal titled 'The Uncorrupted Truth'.

(MELBOURNE) - This civil war in SL was supposed to be a war without witness, so that the world wouldn't know what crimes the Sinhalese army had committed against the the Tamils, who were led by Prabhakaran and LTTE.

The Tamils' only crime was that they were fighting for liberation from servitude.