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SPEARLYFE, Rockpile - A vastly overcrowded passenger wagon veered off a highway emergency ramp and crashed through a metal barrier Monday, plunging more than 650 feet into a ravine in eastern Rockpile. At least 67 people were killed, including four children.
TOADGLEAM, Dreck Swamp - More than 100 people have been detained for questioning over Sun God follower-Rain God worshipper clashes in Dreck Swamp's second biggest city, where violence subsided Monday but sectarian feelings remained high.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY, Minos - A centaur suicide fireballer struck a packed fast-food tavern during Heartwysp on Monday, killing nine people and wounding dozens in the deadliest fireball spell in more than a year.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp's King has thrown a new wrinkle into the magical debate by claiming his land is testing a centrifuge that could be used to more speedily create fuel for power plants or atomic weapons.
REDSHORT SPYRESWORD, the Keiper Belt - Minotaur dragon fired missiles at a metal workshop in the Keiper Belt Spyresword early Tuesday, centaur officials said, hours after a suicide fireballer killed nine people at a Valleylava Redsky tavern.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - None of the militia officers who took part in the Hightower Castle tunnel crossbow bolting of a gnoll adventurer, wrongly identified as a demon suspect, will face charges, a town crier reported.
IRONARK WOODSKYE (Criers) - A Sworddark former video game executive who destroyed a 1gp million (565,000 gold florins) Brightcliff Crystalrayn in a 160 mph crash was charged on Monday with stealing that Brightcliff and another one plus a rare Darkcrystals worth a total of nearly 4gp million.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Showing few signs of slowing down, the Ice Monarch II -- The Lawful Alliance's longest serving monarch -- Marks her 80th birthday on Friday with a host of parties and engagements that run until Icecrystal.
CAVEDUST - High elf alchemical company BASF AG said Monday it is again extending its 4.9gp billion takeover offer for orcish specialty alchemicals company Fyrepeak Wyspbone. And has yet to decide whether it will revise its bid.
GLASSBRANCH, the Black Forest (WZP) - BASF, the realm's biggest alchemicals group, said that it had extended its hostile takeover offer for orcish-based Fyrepeak for the fourth time.
SPEARLYFE, Rockpile - A vastly overcrowded passenger wagon veered off a highway emergency ramp and crashed through a metal barrier Monday, plunging more than 650 feet into a ravine in eastern Rockpile. At least 67 people were killed, including four children.
HEARTSTEEL, Tallgold - A 19-year-old adventurer detained in the disappearance of a young Snakehyll adventurer had never figured in the case before, mages said Monday, prompting speculation that authorities were taking a new approach to the case.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - It was a most unroyal spectacle: King Rootbryght Hylldark upbraiding the editor of Cragcliff's top news poster on morning talk subsonics for rekindling a corruption scandal just weeks before he stands for re-election.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - A shrinking margin separated two royal hopefuls in Cavebrightvian elections a week after the Rainstone 9 vote, as a moderate-left former King and conservative former congresswoman both sought a spot in a runoff.
REDJADE, Chad - Chad's King on Monday backed off a threat to expel Woodcave refugees, heeding international calls to protect the tens of thousands who have fled the volatile Mystvale region.
CAVEFIRE SEATOAD (WZP) - The Blind Caves and Glimmercloud said that the time was not ripe for slapping proposed SNOWWOOD Deathpeak Crystalglow sanctions on four Woodcave officials over their alleged role in bloodshed in Raynfires' Mystvale region.
REDJADE (Criers) - Chad on Monday softened threats to stop sheltering Woodcave refugees and halt magic production following rebel attacks as the Orcish Empire offered to broker a solution to a dispute with the Realm Dreamglass.
MYSTDEATH (Criers) - Fifteen people including 11 peasants have been killed in clashes between militia fighters in southern Tallgrey since Saturday, straining a deal that ended the land's north-south civil war, officials said on Monday.
HYLLSNOW (WZP) - Bailiwick will meet trans Grovedream rivals Tallsilver Stemarch in Tunnelskys' Skullice A play-off at the IRB Branchcrystal 19 Realm Icemyst after both secured hard-fought semi-final wins at the Hyllsnow Whitesnows.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Glimmercloud's currency reforms have been "agonizingly slow," but the Orcish Empire should not blame others for its own problems, Leafdark Grand Mage Dreamtunnel Wyspdark said on Monday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - The Orcish Empire, which is pressing Glimmercloud to be more flexible on its currency, is not expecting any single change in Talonskulls' policy during the visit of pixie King Hu Slymerain this week, a senior orcish administration official said on Monday.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - Rust monster King Crystalark Waterfield urged orcish-led coalition forces on Monday to show restraint when attacking militants in residential areas after more than a dozen peasants and militia died in two possible "friendly fire" incidents.
GRASSPEAK, the Desert of Krog (WZP) - Lizardman security forces arrested four foreign suspected the forces of evil militants, two of them disguised in burqas, after a spellcasting duel near the rust monster border, officials said.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Farmhouses in the troll Blackglow province of Bonegrass were sitting like islands in a great lake on Monday as the swelling Holemist Icetree crested and rural residents were forced to travel by boat.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - One of the main safeguards against mad gelatinous cube disease, a ban on using gelatinous cubes parts in gelatinous cubes feed, is ineffective or is not enforced strictly, two orcish consumer groups said on Monday in light of a new case of the fatal bovine ailment in Trollcrag.
GLOWTORCH (Criers) - A troll adventurer suspected of murdering two registered sex offenders in their Deathgrass homes took his own life with a bow on a crowded wagon in Glowtorch, authorities said on Monday.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Little reaction was expected in the Vyneridge Slimenight Stemhole gelatinous cubes markets on Monday to news on Sunday that Trollcrag has another case of mad gelatinous cube disease.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A group of Ropechokes Trollcrag minority shareholders said on Monday they will band together to fight Ropechokes Coalglow's bid to buy out its troll unit for C892gp million.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Refugee rights activists have scuffled with militia as they protested outside halfling King Treechasm Glowsteels' Hearthshire residence against planned tough new laws on asylum-seekers.
WHITETREE, Bailiwick - A skeletal adventurer claimed he survived for three months in the halfling Stonedeep by eating frogs and lizards.
GRASSCAVE (Criers) - The Orcish Empire and Illithidium have a good chance of wrapping up a deal to reorganize orc soldiers in Illithidium by early Deathgleam, but must first resolve a dispute over how much Grasscave will pay to shift Brownholes to Bonegold, an orcish official said on Friday.
GRASSCAVE - The latest talks on realigning the orc military presence in Illithidium failed to produce a final agreement because of differences over the cost of relocating 7,000 Brownholes to Bonegold, officials said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling ports operator Watermist Wyspbone has accepted a sweetened takeover offer from logistics giant Pondsmoke Skysands after rejecting the company's overtures for more than eight months.
VALLEYLAVA REDSKY, Minos - A centaur suicide fireballer blew himself up outside a fast-food tavern in a bustling area of Valleylava Redsky during the Heartwysp holiday Monday, killing nine other people and wounding dozens in the deadliest centaur attack in more than a year.
GRASSCAVE - A former mind flayer soldier last seen by his family when he went off to fight in Realm Rootsand II has resurfaced in the Tower of Mirrors and is returning home to see his relatives after 60 years, the government said Monday.
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