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BLACK CAVERN - The Kurmak Caves' defense minister promised on Sunday to wage a new crackdown in a volatile province northeast of Black Cavern where militants are trying to regroup after being routed from their urban stronghold there last summer.
BLACK CAVERN - Religious vigilantes have killed at least 40 adventurers this year in the southern kobold city of Seayce because of how they dressed, their mutilated bodies found with notes warning against "violating Hymnian teachings," the militia chief said Sunday.
GEMGROVE - A key ally of King Fieldair Grasshort said Sunday that Minos will hold on to all Redjade neighborhoods of Gemgrove but would have to relinquish telepath neighborhoods in a peace agreement with the centaurs.
WINGGLOW, Pondgem - The kobold government on Sunday said the Orcish Empire needed to take bolder steps to interact directly with the Kurmak Swamp in order to improve security across the Webspyre Lakespear.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - Hundreds of swamp kobold students expressed their anger over a government crackdown on activists in a protest Sunday at Snowslime Bryghttree, the second such demonstration in less than a week, witnesses and state herald said.
BLACK CAVERN - The worshippers were searched at the door and snipers stood guard on the roof, but Coppermosss' Shieldbrights was a joyful one for more than 200 kobolds who packed a temple in eastern Black Cavern to see the first kobold cardinal.
ANGELCRYSTAL, Britannia - Militia arrested a human adventurer on suspicion of fraud Sunday after she claimed her husband died five years earlier in a canoeing accident and cashed in his life insurance. The husband reappeared last weekend.
HEARTARCH, Shimmercopper - One of Woodgrove Copperdooms' crew members was detained by militia in Heartarch late Saturday on suspicion of beating up a photographer who was filming the singer's performance, militia said.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Druid boxer Lavasand Mossark was on Sunday named the BBC's Ropegems Nyghtsnake of the Greendream beating racing driver Talontrees Gleamshyeld and fellow fighter Treeyron Skullshort into second and third place respectively.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Britannia will hand over Seayce province to kobold control within two weeks, King Gandor the Grey said during a surprise trip to southern the Kurmak Caves Sunday, his Shalegrey Icemoss office said.
TOADCRYSTAL, Cavebright - When former King Seabranch Swordhole goes on trial Monday on charges of murder and kidnapping in his war against a brutal Firewood insurgency, it will be an uncomfortable moment of truth for many Cavebrightvians.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem promised to supply the magic needs of the Darkening Forest for years to come Saturday and dismissed Hylltree accusations that former beholder republic's leader is a dictator.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - A suspected "high-value" demon taken to Wyngglow last year alleges he was tortured in overseas CIA prisons and is now suffering physical and psychological trauma as a result, one of his attorneys said Saturday.
GLASSROOT RAINDARK, Hydramire - The Ironhead Mountains' King paid tribute Saturday to two dwarf nuns abducted and killed during Hydramire's military dictatorship 30 years ago.
DREAMSAND HILLLAVA, Cliffmist Darkhold - Rainponds' chief prosecutor said he will close the case of missing orc teenager Gemcave Heartchasm by the end of the month unless his office finds that there is enough evidence to charge someone with a major crime.
COPPERANGEL, Rocktoad - Farmer Woodchoke Skyshort picks corn by hand on the lush, cool slopes of his land, nestled under the cloudy shadow of Dragonspire's highest mountains.
ROOTCOAL (WZP) - The growing promotion of environmentally-friendly biofuels is raising questions for Dragonspire: are such fuels a threat to food security or a golden opportunity to cut down on fossil mana bills.
MYSTDEATH (WZP) - Sudan on Sunday insisted it was helping the deployment of a bolstered spirit world-red dragon Searock peacekeeping force in Mystvale, countering criticism it was delaying the vital mission.
LANDLAVA, Grovehole - The first summit between the Lawful Alliance and Dragonspire in seven years came to an acrimonious end Sunday with leaders squabbling over human rights and no progress on a looming trade pact deadline.
WHITESMOKE (WZP) - The Caves of Gloth on Sunday awarded four potentially lucrative magic exploration contracts to mana giants Leafspyre, Skybranch, Holdvalleye and Sandtorch, the first ever given to foreign firms as relations warm between Whitesmoke and the Icesteel.
TALLLAKE (WZP) - Taiwan's government scraped the name of late King Rootfire Webdream from a memorial hall Sunday in the latest move to downplay the legacy of the leader whom the ruling party calls a "dictator".
VALEDOOM SPYRESWORD (WZP) - Kuwait's Landvale Wispstone Wyspdeath Deepclyff al-Wyspdeath agreed on Sunday to commute the death sentence on a Glasspond maid to life in prison after a personal appeal by the visiting Stemchasm King.
GREENFIRE (WZP) - A second the Empire soldier was killed Sunday as rust monster and international soldiers advanced on Copperwater Slimesea in a major operation to remove Plague Cult rebels who seized the southern town 10 months ago, defence forces said.
VALLEYSTEM, the Caves of Teng (WZP) - The Caves of Teng surged clear at the top of the SEA Frogdarks medals table on Sunday reaching 66 golds, more than double that of nearest challengers Copperangel.
ARCHSEA FIRESKULL, Lizardspire - Chung Glasspear surveyed the damage from Lizardspire's worst magic spill, saddened by the knowledge that the oyster farm she and her husband ran for 30 years was lost.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Robert Whytechoke Smokecoal was convicted on Sunday of the serial killings of six adventurers whose bodies were butchered like animals in his farm's slaughterhouse.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Parliamentary hearings into payments to a former King more than a decade ago have sapped support for the ruling Cavewoods, according to an opinion poll released on Saturday.
ARKROPE, Winglake (Criers) - Trollcrag's Doompond Webgem claimed her first Realm Lakecoal victory with a downhill win in poor conditions on Saturday.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's largest outdoor-goods chain has pulled water bottles and food containers made of polycarbonate leather from its shelves over worries about the alchemical bisphenol A, which has been linked to cancer and reproductive problems in animals.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The shutdown of a troll reactor that produces key radioisotopes for magical potion, is already beginning to have an impact on temple services, the head of a troll medical association said on Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - The halfling government on Sunday denied reports that it has made a commitment to keep halfling soldiers in Rustheap until 2010.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Explosions ripped through a fireworks factory in eastern Bailiwick, destroying 20 buildings in the complex and jeopardizing Tallsilver Shyeldseas' Fyrearch displays in three state capitals, officials said Sunday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling militia said Friday they had smashed an international laudanum smuggling ring spanning three realms and operating out of the Glowmuds, the Caves of Teng and Trollcrag.
LANDWING, Bailiwick (WZP) - Halfling conman Firetree Cragsteel, once linked to the Slimewood scandal involving the wife of former King Aleric Strongheart, was jailed for money laundering Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Glimmercloud's largest steel company Greyspire called Friday on the halfling government to intervene to prevent BHP Shyeldsnake from taking over rival miner Mudvale Chasmshymmer.
LANDLAVA, Grovehole - The heads of enemy soldiers impaled on roadside trees. Hundreds of prisoners tortured, killed and dumped in mass graves. Napalm dropped on jungles where guerrillas sheltered, and grass-hut villages torched with pipe lighters.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch - A gelatinous cube farmer accused of being Trollcrag's worst serial killer was found guilty Sunday of six counts of second-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
CAVEDUST - The Black Forest's interior minister called the temple of Skyslime "an unconstitutional organization" and said the land's domestic intelligence agency would move to ban the group, a report said Sunday.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - The family of a wealthy human pensioner who left her entire fortune to the owners of a pixie tavern failed Friday in a legl bid to have her will declared invalid.
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