LAHORE, Pakistan - At least seven people, including six police officers, died during an attack Tuesday on the Sri Lankan soccer team in Pakistan for a competition. Lahore police said the officers and the driver of another van in the team's convoy were killed and another 20 people were injured, including six members of the Sri Lankan team, in the attack, Dawn reported. An investigator told the newspaper several people suspected to be tied to ... [full story]

BEND, Ore. – An ongoing investigation into heroin sales activity in Bend which began in December of last year after a backpack full of syringes, balloons and cotton swabs was left in a local bank yielded its second arrest on Monday, detectives reported.   Alexander Frederic L. Cann – DCJ photo  Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) detectives took 21-year old Alexander Frederic L. Cann into custody at the Empire Business Park about 5:30 p.m., March 2, Bend ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - Nine secret legal memos that show President George W. Bush's broad interpretation of presidential power were released by the Obama administration. The memos made public Monday include a 2001 opinion authorizing the military to treat terrorist suspects in the United States as if they were an invading army that had no constitutional rights, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. The rationale, encompassed in a memo written six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ... [full story]

URBANA, Ill. - Health officials speculate a midwife could be the source of a human placenta that recently turned up at an Illinois wastewater treatment plant. Julie Pryde, who runs the Champaign-Urbana Health District, told the Chicago Tribune that a midwife may not have been aware of the proper procedures for disposing of the placenta after the baby is delivered. Three placentas have been found on the filter screen of the Downstate Urbana plant in ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday it may soon release more documents on the Bush administration's war against terror. Among those documents are some believed to authorize the process of "waterboarding," using water to convince prisoners they are about to drown, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) said. Documents already released include memos involving the Bush administration's claim that the president had the power to avoid legal restrictions when fighting terror, as well as secret ... [full story]

TOKYO - Japan is preparing to become the first country to deploy a ship-based, long-range missile defense system as North Korea apparently readies a missile test. The controversial system, dubbed "Son of Star Wars," has been installed aboard Japanese naval destroyers which are set to be dispatched to areas off North Korea should Pyongyang move ahead with an anticipated rocket launch, Japanese officials told The Times of London Tuesday. Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said ... [full story]

TOLEDO, Ohio - Environmental groups say that an Ohio power plant kills millions of fish every year by drawing in water from the Maumee River for cooling. Sandy Bihn, executive director of the Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper Association, said that the Bay Shore plant in Oregon, Ohio, operated by First Energy, would be far less lethal if it built a cooling tower, The Detroit News reported. With a cooling tower, the plant in the Toledo ... [full story]

MEDFORD, Ore. - Authorities in Oregon said an arsonist appears to be targeting green Ford Escorts, with three of the vehicles going up in flames during the past month. Medford police said the most recent incident occurred Sunday, when a 1995 green Escort parked outside of a home was found destroyed after someone broke a window, poured flammable liquid into the car and set it on fire, KTVL-TV, Medford, reported Tuesday. Police said a 1993 ... [full story]

WARSAW, Poland - Financially troubled German car parts supplier Schaeffler may have been more involved in the Third Reich than once thought, a Polish researcher said. While it is known that the company bought by Wilhelm Schaeffler in 1940 in Kiertz in what is now Poland employed forced laborers, Polish researchers now link Schaeffler to the processing of human hair from the Auschwitz death camp, Der Spiegel reported Tuesday. Jacek Lachendro, deputy chief of the ... [full story]

COBURG, Ore. -- In a news release issued Monday, Monaco Coach Corporation, the 41-year old manufacturer of premium recreational vehicles based in Coburg, Oregon, announced that it has terminated the majority of its remaining workforce – about 2,000 employees – while it continues to seek additional financing or capital or a corporate transaction in what may be a last ditch effort to keep the company afloat.   Most of the employees terminated were placed on furlough in ... [full story]