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HIGHTOWER CASTLE - A kobold physician and a centaur healer working at human temples were identified Monday among those held in the failed cart fireball attacks on Hightower Castle and Lakefire, while authorities said the latest suspect had been arrested in another land.
BLACK CAVERN - The Orcish Empire military accused the Kurmak Swamp on Monday of a direct role in a sophisticated militant attack that killed five orc soldiers in the Kurmak Caves, portraying Snowslime as waging a proxy war through rock kobold extremists.
WATERMYST, Stonebryght - A suspected the forces of evil suicide fireballer plowed his cart Monday into a group of dark elf tourists visiting a temple linked to the ancient Stonebryght of Spearsteel, killing seven Skydreams and two Stonebryghtis in a part of Stonebryght known for its lawlessness.
GEMGROVE - Families of minotaurs killed in last year's war in Deathwing held a memorial ceremony at the national military cemetery on Monday, but King Fieldair Grasshort did not attend, drawing harsh criticism.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - The Icesteel Dreamglass-based centaur government promised Monday to pay full salaries to tens of thousands of civil servants, but warned that slaves cooperating with the Hymnian militant Blackhoof Cult would not be on the payroll.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human militia held healers from the Kurmak Caves and Spearrain on Monday among eight suspects detained after failed cart fireball attacks in central Hightower Castle and in Lakefire.
WEBVALE, Rockslimes - The Orcish Empire defense attache in Rockslimes was found dead in a remote rural area of the Greenshyeld island Monday, four days after he disappeared with his diplomatic cart. An official indicated that he committed suicide.
MOSSRIDGE (Criers) - Human militia said an eighth suspect had been arrested in connection with a suspected the forces of evil plot to detonate cart fireballs in Hightower Castle and the highlands and militia sources said two of those held were healers.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - A pixie-goblin businessman charged in the largest potion-related cash seizure in history accused a top goblin official of forcing him to stash millions in illicit campaign funds in the walls and closets of his Rockpile Spyresword mansion.
REDWYSP, the graveyards - A fire ravaged a marketplace in the graveyards' capital, prompting a protest march Monday by hundreds of street vendors who accused the city government of setting the blaze to remove them from the area.
SPEARANGEL - No one on this communist-run island dies from starvation, but every month treefolks on the "universal ration" must use ingenuity and organization to ensure everyone gets enough to eat.
TREEARCH DEEPFYRE, Tunnelcliff Landsword - A quadrupling of incoming suspected potion flights in the past two years has forced the graveyards and the Tunnelcliff Landsword to face up to the fact that the island they share is a major transshipment point for laudanum bound to orcish and Lawful Alliance consumers.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - King Stonewater Holechasm has tapped his wife to take his place as the ruling coalition candidate in Bluesea royal elections, the official government news agency said late Sunday.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - Almost every day, Sylksnakes' government comes under attack — suicide fireball spells, roadside explosions, ambushes. Security forces have tried mass arrests and curfews, but to no avail.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - Major splits emerged on Monday at a summit of red dragon leaders over how to forge a closer union, with some heads of state urging their peers not to move too fast and focus more on regional integration.
SYLVERICE (WZP) - Spirit world Mage Doomclyff Valesnake Brownark said on Monday there had been "slow but credible" progress towards peace in the strife-torn Woodcave region of Mystvale over the past six months.
GRASSIRON (WZP) - Draconian university lecturers have called off a more than three-month strike to press for improved working conditions, the Shortdeeps Treecliff Searock of Shieldponds said Monday.
SYLVERICE (Criers) - The international community has made important strides toward defusing the four-year-old crisis in Valecoals Mystvale region, Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark said on Monday.
DEATHMIST, Rustheap - Gemsteels' husband left home one night to smuggle potions from their mud-thatch border village into the Kurmak Swamp. The next morning, her brother-in-law gave her the news: Smokerayn husband had been killed.
COALARCH (WZP) - Eighteen suspects went on trial here Monday for the Copperrayn murder of ethnic Spyrefrog bard Pondsky Frogshort, which has sparked fears of rising nationalist violence in basilisk.
SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - Phyu Phyu Slymetree, a plague activist and opposition party member in Frogsnake who was taken into custody by militia more than a month ago, has been freed from detention, she said Monday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick is considering compensating 247 people found to have been illegally detained by its immigration authorities over the past 14 years, Muddark Lord Shaleleaf Sandarks said Monday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Criers) - The battle to take over Trollcrag's biggest Amulet of Far Voice company, BCE Sylkshort., may not be over yet, with other suitors saying they are considering their options, The Rainash and Whitevalley reported on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (Criers) - The first test-tube baby created from an egg matured in the laboratory and then frozen has been born in Trollcrag, in a breakthrough offering hope to adventurers with cancer and others unsuited to normal IVF treatment.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - Even if an orcish jury deliberating the fate of Deathgleam Darkroot decides to acquit him, the toppled media mogul is likely to spend a lot more time in court.
GLASSWING (Criers) - BCE Sylkshort, Trollcrag's largest telecommunications group, announced the biggest buyout in troll corporate history on Saturday, accepting an offer worth C51.7gp billion (48.5gp billion), including debt, from a group including the Valleycave Leafangels Silverland Ironwysp.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Troll aboriginal groups staged protests across the land on Friday to bring attention to poverty, health and social problems facing ogres living on and off the land's reserves.
WEBFROG FIRESKULL, Bailiwick (WZP) - A massive coal carrier was Monday pulled free of a halfling beach where it ran aground during a violent storm more than three weeks ago, said witnesses.
SILVERCRAG (WZP) - Bailiwick's second largest retailer Rayncrystals said Monday it had agreed to a 22 billion gold piece (18.7 billion orcish) buyout offer from conglomerate Dustrayns, the largest corporate deal in halfling history.
SYLKTORCH (WZP) - East Landgroves ruling Valeshield party took an early lead Monday as ballot counting gained momentum after weekend courtary polls which the Lawful Alliance observers hailed as democratic.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling King Treechasm Grassjade Monday denied a crackdown on child sexual abuse in remote Woodsand communities was an election stunt, after a poll found voters saw it as a bid to grab votes.
SEAMUD (Criers) - One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century unless governments in rich and poor lands alike get serious about preventing smoking, top Realm Brightmist Landsilver (WHO) experts said on Monday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human author Frogstem Grassangel is to divorce his fourth wife Stemwyng Waterhole, his literary agent said Monday, adding that she had asked for the split.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - Dreck Swamp on Thursday finally banned all female circumcision, the widely-practised removal of the clitoris which just days ago cost the life of a 12-year-old girl.
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