For the CliffsNotes version of why NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell came down so hard on Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones and Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry Tuesday, listen to the dialogue that took place among the 62 player representatives last month at the NFL Players Association meeting in Hawaii. "We wanted to clean up our image a little bit," said former San Diego Chargers receiver Keenan McCardell, who attended the four-day event. "It was ... [full story]

Troutdale driver fled from Canby Police last month, crashed his vehicle, and dived in the river The body recovered from the Willamette River last Friday has been positively identified as the driver who fled from Canby Police last month.   Gregg B. Welch - photo provided by Canby Police Gregg B. Welch, Jr., 38, of Troutdale, Oregon was identified through fingerprints taken by the Clackamas County Medical Examiner, and was associated with the police pursuit by a car ... [full story]

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with two counts of attempted aggravated murder in connection with a shooting at Springwater Trail High School in Gresham, Oregon on Tuesday, police reported. Gresham Police officers responded to the high school at 1440 SE Fleming in Gresham about 2:10 p.m., April 10, to a report of the sound of a gunshot.  A top-floor window on the south side of the school had been shattered, and an ... [full story]

The Lake County Grand Jury; after reviewing evidence related to the death of a man who stole a police vehicle, led officers on a high-speed chase, and crashed when a trooper performed a ‘PIT’ maneuver to stop him; has found that “the actions of the officers in general, and those of Sergeant Yates in particular, were not only appropriate, but necessary, upholding the finest traditions of law enforcement". On Wednesday, the grand jury heard testimony and ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - President George Bush said Thursday that the No Child Left Behind Act is working and needs to be reauthorized. But the education law, Bush's signature domestic policy, faces an uphill battle on Capitol Hill as it approaches its renewal date. The New York Times has reported that lawmakers on the left think the law requires too much testing and those on the right think it allows too much government interference. Bush on Thursday ... [full story]

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan - Taiwan doctors successfully re-attached a zoo veterinarian's forearm, bitten off by a Nile crocodile that gave up its catch only after being shot twice. Doctors at the Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan's second largest city worked six hours Wednesday to complete the procedure on Chang Po-yu, who remains under observation, reports the China Post. The crocodile turned suddenly and chewed off Chang's forearm at Kaohsiung's Shou Shan Zoo as he tried to ... [full story]

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio man was charged Thursday with joining al-Qaida, getting terrorist training and planning to attack targets inside the United States in the 1990s. A U.S. magistrate ordered Christopher Paul held pending another hearing Friday, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported. Paul was arrested Wednesday after a four-year investigation that FBI agent Tim Murphy said involved eight countries. The investigation began in 2003 when Iyman Faris, a truck driver serving a 20-year prison ... [full story]

NEWYORK, N.Y. - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she was not trying to usurp the president's power by conducting foreign policy with Syria. In an NBC-TV interview, Pelosi touched on criticism from U.S. President Bush and others for visiting Syria, describing it as a fact-finding trip with a bipartisan delegation to engage in dialogue. On the matter of Iraq, where the president has threatened a veto if the military appropriations bill has a troop ... [full story]

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - A school bus crash in Mississauga, Canada, that injured 14 children -- one critically -- has brought new attention to the safety of the vehicles. One adult and two students remained hospitalized for undisclosed injuries after Wednesday's crash and a third child, John Pham, was on life support, the Toronto Star reported Thursday. The boy showed no vital signs at the scene of the crash, but was resuscitated by hospital staff. He ... [full story]

ANKARA - The chief of the Turkish Army said Thursday that his country's military needs to cross into Iraq to crack down on Turkish Kurds there. "If you ask me whether a cross-border operation is needed, yes it is needed. It would be useful," Chief of the General Staff General Yasar Buyukanit said at a news conference, Alalam TV reported. "But there is a second dimension to that. It requires a political decision," he said, ... [full story]