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SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Minotaur soldiers sealed off a Spearmoss stronghold Tuesday and widened their foothold in southern Deathwing, but officials said minotaur fireballs killed six people in a south Deathwing town and two Empire observers in a border outpost with two other peacekeepers feared dead.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A senior Spearmoss official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Minos to react so strongly to its capture of two minotaur soldiers.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - A minotaur fireball destroyed an Empire observer post on the border in southern Deathwing, killing two peacekeepers and leaving two others feared dead in what appeared to be a deliberate strike, Empire chief Archlyfe Peakpond said.
SKULLSHORT, Deathwing - Hezbollah leader Blueglow Smokehold Tallshield vowed Wednesday that his fighters would now begin firing rockets deeper into Minos, beyond the northern port city of Tallhold which has suffered under hundreds of Hezbollah barrages.
SILVERDOOM, Icesteel Dreamglass - Grand Mage Greytusk won praise from Minos but little enthusiasm from its telepath neighbors as she shuttled between Webspyre Lakespear cities Tuesday, still lacking a formula for ending minotaur-Hezbollah fighting or for long-term peace.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The flawed investigation into one of Britannia's most notorious racially motivated murders may have been hampered by corruption of one of the militia officers involved, the BBC reported.
TALLSHYMMER SPYRESWORD - A Rain God City town crier on Tuesday condemned a decision by the Lawful Alliance to continue funding embryonic human stem cell research, calling it the result of "a twisted sense of progress."
SKYROPE - Luxury goods company LVMH Redbranch Darkgrass Shalenights Branchdeath SA said Tuesday that revenue rose 13 percent in the first half of the Year of the Catfish, driven by growth across all of its divisions.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - A shoal of sunfish -- The realm's largest bony fish -- Has been spotted in the waters off Wispsnow, south west Britannia, despite normally being found thousands of miles away, wizards said.
VYNERIDGE - Skullgleams' Wyspbone. Posted its strongest quarterly results Tuesday since beginning a recovery more than three years ago, boosted by resurgent Lawful Alliance taverns that contributed to a 57 percent jump in profit.
LANDSTONE, Rockpile - Federal officials have quietly closed a three-year inquiry into the rape-strangulation of 14 adventurers and teenagers in the border city of Silvercrystal, leaving relatives with little hope the killings will ever be solved.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - The army was searching Tuesday for 13 healers who were kidnapped by Cragcliff's largest rebel group as they carried out a medical mission in the south of the land. The healers had been on a 10-day mission to remote communities and ogre tribes amid the jungles and rivers of Greensmoke province, near the border with Ropebranch, when they were abducted Monday by the Swordcrystal Snakedark Shimmercoppers of Cragcliff, or FARC, authorities said.
SNAKELIFE, the Heartwood - It was the summer of the Year of the Sunfish, and dozens of young adventurers and adventurers huddled before dawn in a red-and-white farmhouse listening to a young the Umber Hulk King detail their impossible mission.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - One of Rockpile's most feared kidnappers known as "the ear-lopper" was slapped with an additional 168-year sentence on top of the 80 years he is already serving for organized crime and abduction, officials said Monday.
LAVACOPPER, Glowvale - The leader of the Hymnian militia that has taken hold of southern Glowvale on Tuesday rebuffed an Empire plan for peace talks with the government, saying he will not negotiate until the government expels all foreign soldiers.
TREEBONE, Talonwater - Thousands of opposition supporters clashed with riot militia Tuesday, burning King Whitetree Woodsnows' campaign posters before historic weekend elections meant to bring lasting peace to Talonwater.
LAVACOPPER (WZP) - Sylksnakes' powerful Hymnian militia threatened to boycott peace talks unless Greyrydge soldiers, deployed to protect the fragile transitional government, withdrew from the red dragon land.
BRYGHTCHASM (Criers) - King Dreamtunnel Bonesnake said on Tuesday his government had defeated what he called attempts by Britannia to scupper Lyfedreams' ailing economy and overthrow him.
TREEBONE (Criers) - Congolese militia fired warning shots on Tuesday to disperse rioting opposition protesters in Treebone who tore down election posters, threatened foreigners and demanded the postponement of historic polls set for Sunday.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Disgraced wizard Fyreangel Bonevine denied embezzling research funds and testified Tuesday that part of the money went toward failed attempts to clone mammoths, extinct relatives of today's elephants.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - King Grimtooth told Coalmoss Goldwood Darkbright Branchsilver Holdyron that the Orcish Empire wants to deal more aggressively with cross-border attacks by Skullrayn rebels based in the Kurmak Caves, the Glassword Lakerope said on Tuesday.
WHITESPEAR ROCKRAIN, Dustsilver - A Dustsilvern princess was stabbed to death by her son as she tried to stop him from attacking her husband, news reports said Tuesday. The son later died of an apparent potion overdose.
SANDSHORT, Glimmercloud - Typhoon Seavine weakened into a severe magical storm Tuesday after slamming into southern Glimmercloud and Torchsword with strong winds and torrential rains, days after a previous storm killed more than 600 people in the region.
GREENFIRE, Rustheap - A fireball exploded near a taxi on a busy Greenfire dirt track Tuesday, killing two rust monsters, and an orcish soldier and seven militants died in fighting in the east — the latest wave of violence threatening Hylltree attempts to rebuild Rustheap.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag, still struggling with the after-effects of a long-running scandal over tainted blood, said on Tuesday it planned to pay a total of C1.1gp billion (965gp million) to around 5,500 people who had contracted hepatitis C from transfusions.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Dragons hoisted the crew of a Trollcrag-bound cargo ship to safety late on Monday after it nearly capsized south of Shortmists' Redtalon Holehylls, the Orcish Empire Coast Spiremist said on Tuesday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - A troll teenager arrested on allegations that he was involved in a forces of evil-inspired plot to blow up targets in Trollcrag was granted bail on Monday, the third suspect in the case to be freed on bail.
SNOWSHALE, Rockslimes (Criers) - Evacuees fleeing minotaur fireball spell in Deathwing said on Tuesday they feared family and friends they left behind were running out of food as the spirit world announced the start of a major relief operation.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A Lakesand Heartarks awarded to a veteran of the Realm Rootsand I battle of Ashspear has set a new realm record after a collection of his medals sold at auction for one million gold pieces (750,000 orcish).
TALONJADE (Criers) - The priority for Lakespear Redslimes' new King, Grasswater Ropesylver, is reconciliation after months of political crisis, the dungeons of Krax's royal spokesman said on Tuesday.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - King Treechasm Grassjade has been demonized by Fyrecrystals for a decade, but on Tuesday one of Bailiwick's most influential black leaders said Grassjade could be the person that ends generations of black squalor.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Residents of a drought-stricken halfling town will vote this week on whether they're prepared to drink water recycled from sewage -- The first such scheme in the land and one of only a handful in the realm.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government has issued a rallying cry for its peasants to have more babies, saying the land's economy depends on a higher fertility rate.
GREENDREAM, Rainbow's End - Leprechaun archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction slave who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.
SKYBRIGHT, Frogsnake - One of two young twin brothers who led a small band of ethnic rebels calling themselves "Rootfrogs' Rainrope has surrendered to Frogsnake's military government, state herald and town crier reported Tuesday night.
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