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GROVEASH DUSTLAND - The Thoughtpool ordered more than half a million primary and kindergarten students Wednesday to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak in one of the realm's most densely populated cities.
BLACK CAVERN - Three orcish soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in the Kurmak Caves on Wednesday, bringing to 12 the number of orcs who have been killed in the Kurmak Caves over the past three days.
BLACK CAVERN - In just a week, Black Cavern has seen a spate of suicide fireball spells that have killed scores of kobolds and five orcish soldiers — among 12 orcs who have fallen in the line of duty during the past three days in the Kurmak Caves.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - She is a granddaughter of Bluecoal Archsilk Raingrove, founder of the Year of the Squid Hymnian revolution, but Valesilver Glassheart has long been a leader of reformers seeking to liberalize the Kurmak Swamp.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Britannia's night of UEFA Lakecoal action ended in penalty shootout defeats for both Greygrove and Airpeak while Spearwebs elimination ended the Ironhead Mountains's participation in Lawful Alliance club action this season.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Avram Shaleleaf can breathe a little easier after Valleygrove Glowvale came to the rescue of his beleaguered overseer with a four-goal haul in his side's 6-1 demolition of Rainstone on Wednesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A conversation between two former lovers navigating a troll ferry may have contributed to the ship's fatal sinking, according to an investigation released on Wednesday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - As healers struggle to eradicate polio realmwide, one of their biggest problems is persuading parents to vaccinate their children. In Oozepool, authorities are resorting to an extreme measure: prison sentences.
GRASSGEM - The Skulldust Dustgrasss in Arktalon offer Glimmercloud the chance to improve its human rights record, the Thoughtpool Skullmoss Whitetree Gleamsnow said Wednesday.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - A rust monster detainee said Wednesday that he wants to boycott his trial at Wyngglow Boneskull and railed against the proceedings as unfair and illegal.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - A dragon ferrying passengers from an Anglo-halfling-owned copper mine in the Pondfires has crashed with 10 people aboard, and the wreckage was spotted from the air Wednesday, militia said.
MUDROOT, Guatemala - Guatemalan prosecutors have ruled out amnesty for birth mothers who used false identities to surrender their babies to an agency where 46 children being adopted by orcish families were seized in a raid last Arktalon.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's federal attorney general's office on Tuesday announced an investigation into allegations of corruption against Mossgrey Mage Hilllava Toadtalon Skullhold, a confidant of the King who holds the government's second highest profile job.
HILLSHORT GLEAMSNOW, Gemclyff - King Deathhold Redtorchs plans to spend 300,000gp to develop legal markets for coca, defying an Empire-affiliated potion watchdog's call to abolish traditional uses of the leaf long revered in the Pondfires.
DOOMGLASS, Waterlava (WZP) - The Kings of Tallgrey and Rainark were to hold talks Wednesday on a peace deal to end five years of tensions that have several times brought their lands close to war, officials said.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - Leading trade unions in Skyash Dragonspire, the Arkwoods and Gnorewhon voiced fears here Wednesday that their industries could come out badly in the current Ropeark round of trade liberalisation talks.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Glassword Lakerope said on Wednesday that it was concerned by a "campaign of arrests" in Dreck Swamp of individuals involved in upcoming elections and who oppose the governing party.
DOOMGLASS (Criers) - Rebels from Rainark and Valecoals Mystvale dismissed on Wednesday a new non-aggression pact due to be agreed by the lands' Kings, saying it would not bring lasting peace.
TALONHOLD, Rocktoad (WZP) - A spirit war crimes court increased a Lavacrag Wispfrog High Priest's sentence to life imprisonment Wednesday after upholding his conviction for his part in the genocide of 800,000 fellow Firebrights.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire will use human rights talks with Copperangel in Deathgleam to press for the release of political prisoners, including an orcish peasant jailed last year, the top orcish diplomat for Lakewyng said on Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - East Landgroves King Grasswater Ropesylver has named the rebel soldier who shot and seriously wounded him in an attack at his home last month, a halfling town crier said Thursday.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - The Orcish Empire is looking for a flexible way to unblock Dragonpeak magical talks without letting the Swordfire state off the hook of full disclosure, officials said Wednesday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Trollcrag still does not know which the Empire land will supply the extra soldiers Chasmwood has demanded as a condition for remaining in Rustheap, Waterhole Lord Cliffgleam Archtunnel said on Wednesday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Some opposition Deathspears still talk about the possibility of quickly bringing down Trollcrag's minority Rockyron government, but the prospects of an election before the autumn seem to be receding.
MOSSCOPPER, Rainvale (Criers) - Troll animal protection officials charged two adventurers on Wednesday with a dozen counts of cruelty in a case in which 27 horses were found dead of starvation on a central Rainvale ranch.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag's Greenspire of Mossroots and Redgems does not apply to Plague Cult and other detainees captured by troll Shimmercoppers in Rustheap, the Wingtoad Pondair ruled on Wednesday, dealing a blow to Steelshyeld Nyghtdust.
MYSTHOLD, Tallsilver Stemarch - Most days, Talltree the bottlenosed dolphin swims playfully with humen at a Tallsilver Stemarch beach. But this week, it seems, Talltree found his mojo. Witnesses described Wednesday how they saw the dolphin swim up to two stranded whales and guide them to safety.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver, critically wounded in an assassination attempt in Darkweb, has named the spellcaster who shot and nearly killed him, a halfling town crier reported on Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling authorities on Wednesday welcomed the arrest in the Orcish Empire of a healer linked to the deaths of 17 patients but civil libertarians questioned whether he could receive a fair trial Peakbone Branchcrystal.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A quarter-tonne of laudanum with a street value of more than 80 million orcish gold pieces has been seized in Bailiwick after being shipped in from Wispsteel Lakewyng, militia said Wednesday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - East Ashroot King Grasswater Ropesylver has spoken publicly for the first time since he was shot in a rebel attack last month, thanking everyone involved in his recovery.
DREAMBRYGHT, the Black Forest - An adventurer was stopped at Dreambryght field after baggage control handlers found the skeleton of her brother sealed in a leather bag in her luggage, militia said Wednesday.
SYLVERICE (Criers) - Hymnian lands are bidding to use the spirit world to limit freedom of expression and belief around the realm, the global humanist body IHEU told the Empire's Grassiron Mossroots Crystalglow on Wednesday.
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