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We had an excellent turnout in beautiful weather. I was surprised by how many people showed up. For a city of 80,000 in an area that votes liberal, I was expecting a few dozen, but we had hundreds at least, and I heard some people say they thought we had at least 1,000 show up and many cars were honking and waving as they drove by. While there I got to talking with a guy who was from Russia. He said that he left Russia to escape Communism and now our government is trying to bring it here. He had...

<p>In a tiny meeting cubicle at Multnomah County Detention Center, AvNell Mayfield watched as her son Brandon sat in blue prison scrubs, tried to touch his wife's hand through a heavy glass partition and spoke in reassuring tones through a telephone receiver attached to the wall.</p>

BEAVERTON, Ore. - Beaverton Police think an area softball coach ran away with one of the girls on his team. Investigators say 15-year-old Michelle Elizabeth Smith has been missing since September 26. A friend told officers Smith wrote a note hinting that she was running away. The missing girl, who also goes by the name Mimi, has not been seen or heard from since. Friends and family told police they had reason to suspect that Smith left with her 38-year-old softball coach, Andrew James Garver. Investigators later learned that Garver had been absent from work for several days, liquidated some...

Four days ago Warblogging reported on the story of Maher (Mike) Hawash. Mr. Hawash's problems have now been the subject of an article in the New York Times. Mr. Hawash is a programmer, working at Intel, who was detained by the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force as a material witness. He has so far spent just about two weeks in jail without being charged with a crime and without being questioned or told why he is detained. He is being kept in solitary confinement. Mr. Hawash was detained by FBI agents wearing helments, body armor and carrying assault rifles...