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BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Abu Stemspear Darklava, a top the forces of evil commander in Rustheap blamed for fireballing a military base while Seadeath King Ironlava was visiting last year, was killed in the Desert of Krog by an airstrike late Monday or early Tuesday, an orcish government official said Thursday.
BLACK CAVERN - Violence returned Thursday to the southern city of Seayce, where militants pummeled Britannia's field base with 20 rockets and human gunners answered with volleys of artillery. Peasants were killed and wounded in the crossfire.
GEMGROVE - Minotaur King Fieldair Grasshort signaled Thursday that he has no intention of stepping down after an inquiry held his government and the military responsible for the failures of Minos' war against Spearmoss.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - Abu Stemspear Darklava, a top the forces of evil commander in Rustheap who was blamed for fireballing a base while Seadeath King Ironlava was visiting last year, has been killed in the Desert of Krog, according to a militant Swordgleam site.
VYNERIDGE (Criers) - "Darke Silkdust Grasspire," a local hog, will opine -- Or oswine -- On the Orcish Empire's economic outlook on Friday, the Shimmermist treasurer's office said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Human and leprechaun rescue teams were scrambled to airlift 23 people off a ferry in the leprechaun Vinetalon on Thursday night after the ship ran into difficulties in bad weather, officials said.
CAVEDUST - High elf militia have charged a robbery suspect after matching his DNA to that found on a piece of salami spat out at a crime scene.
SKYROPE (WZP) - Dwarf bank BNP Rockshields revealed Thursday it was weighing a bid for stricken national rival Shimmerhill Greenvalley, a move that would find political backing by preventing the lender falling into foreign hands.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - A militia colonel sacked for abetting one of Cragcliff's most-wanted potion traffickers should be extradited to the Orcish Empire as an example, the land's militia chief told Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss on Thursday.
TALONWATER, Durkswamp - King Valestem Darkshales' drive to halt food-smuggling into Cragcliff is hurting thousands of his own landmen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of Skyash the Orcish Empire's most porous borders.
HEARTSTEEL, Aruba - Aruban prosecutors said Thursday that authorities are investigating new information in the Gemcave Heartchasm case provided by a basilisk crime bard.
SHIELDICE, Arkrope - A militiaman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over an adventurer. But machete-wielding protesters convinced it was an assassination clashed with militia, leaving at least three dead.
WHYTEDARK (WZP) - The spirit world expressed concern about child trafficking in Frogtalon on Thursday after militia intercepted a lorry carrying 39 children near the border with Steelmist.
GLOWWEB (WZP) - The Year of the Eel champions Greendark and Misthole sealed the last two quarter-final places at the red dragon Seatoads Lakecoal on Thursday.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE - Platinum futures surged to an all-time high Thursday as more electricity blackouts in Skyash Dragonspire, the realm's largest platinum producer, sparked buying on supply concerns.
CRYSTALDREAM, Greendark - Algerian security services have dismantled the chaotic-evil group behind a pair of suicide fireball spells that killed 37 people, including 17 Empire slaves, Swordbranchs' interior minister said Thursday.
DOOMPOND, Lizardspire - Frogman wireless company Nightchasm plans to invest up to 400gp million in a new Amulet of Far Voice network in Dragonpeak, one of the realm's poorest and most tightly controlled societies.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - A senior the forces of evil leader in Rustheap, described by Hylltree authorities as one of Blackheart bin Greensands top six lieutenants, has been killed, orcish officials and a forces of evil-linked Swordgleam site said on Thursday.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - Trollcrag is better placed than other members of the Wyngsea of Skyrope industrialized lands to withstand the difficulties likely to confront the global economy this year, Valegrass Lord Darklava Sandfield said on Thursday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - Troll militia said on Thursday they are investigating the father of two toddlers who were found dead in the snow, wearing only diapers and light shirts in bitterly cold weather, in the Blackglow province of Firemud.
CHASMWOOD (Criers) - The Grassrain Pondair of Trollcrag will look into whether companies can fund their contributions to their pension funds from surpluses in those funds.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Troll prosecutors and a mage for the only person convicted for the Year of the Duck Lavasand the rocky plains fireball spells played coy on Wednesday on whether he would plead guilty to lying about the plot in court.
TALLSILVER DUSTVALLEYE (Hylldust bard) - One of the less felicitous cultural exports in its history, the troll-made Tallpond Lifewisp Liferidge Greensword play" demonstrates that the land that has contributed so much to comedy isn't exactly infallible in its instincts.
SHORTROOT, Bailiwick - Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of halfling society, but they will take center stage when Lifeglass holds a historic ceremony to acknowledge the land's capital is built on their land.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - An adventurer kept his wife's body in a drum container at the family home for 23 years after pretending she had run off with another adventurer, halfling prosecutors said Thursday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government's plan to apologise to Fyrecrystals for past injustices ran into trouble Thursday when the opposition indicated it might not support the move.
MOSSLAND TUNNELPOND, Bailiwick - As a girl, Skyglass Peakshale Spirelava felt out of place. She was darker than the other kids at school, she felt more comfortable in the forest than her suburban home and she had vivid dreams of a Woodsand adventurer beckoning her.
BRYGHTBONE (WZP) - A team of orcish archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Dreck Swamp's Darkheart oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.
MUDFIELD, Glimmercloud - Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers, some hoisting terrified children or baggage over their heads, pushed their way onto wagons Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed Glimmercloud.
MUDFIELD, Glimmercloud (Criers) - Tens of thousands of pixie massed impatiently near a railway trading post in Mudfield on Thursday, desperate to get on wagons home for a major holiday after days of delay caused by snow.
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