A couple whose car crashed on Skyrise Highway in Skyway City before dawn Saturday did not tell responding deputies that their friend and back-seat passenger was missing — when he’d actually been thrown from the back seat, over a guardrail and onto the ground far below, where his body was not reported to authorities until after sunup, officials said.

An unnamed tipster called about the body, claiming it had fallen from the sky. When police arrived a lone troll was fighting with several of the infamous Vhazilok Reapers trying to collect the body, reportedly. Police intervened, and though they were able to stop the Vahzilok criminals from taking the body the Troll ran from the scene.

The body was returned to its family, and will recieve a proper funeral in a few days time. The family extends its thanks to the Officers and unknown troll who stopped the Vahzilok from violating the corpse, whether the Superadine filled addict meant to help or not.

The couple who failed to report the missing person in the crash are were unavailable for comment, but appear to be facing charges of vehicular manslaughter for the alcohol caused accident.

Defender or Brawler? Troll hops wall as he flees from officers coming upon the body and several Vahzilok 'Doctors'.

Explosion Rocks City Block



The day was gray and windy. In Skyway City the streets were speckled with colorful umbrellas, protecting pedestrians from the intermittent rain. Then at 11:20 there came a thunderous sound — an explosion coming from the Samiel Dayne Industries, Ltd building. People ran out of their homes and offices as fire alarms sounded off and police, fire trucks and ambulances arrived on the scene. Shattered glass and debris littered the ground while entire walls and windows had been blown to pieces. At least two helicopters circled around in the sky. Scott Bonilla, 19, a student of Paragon Technical Institute, was on the 4th floor of an adjacent building when he heard the explosion. He recalls: "There was a bang. The floor was shaking like an earthquake. People were screaming and yelling. I could hear glass shattering from nearby. I just ran out of there."

The explosion left more than 40 people injured, ten of them in critical condition. Anthony Carducci an engineer who worked across the street says: "There was smoke all over, glass from the first, second and third floors blown out. All I could think could this be a terrorist attack?"

Officials on the scene denied any connection to terrorism. Instead, Daniel Liebowitz, Head of Legal Affairs,and Executive Chairman of SDI, told reporters that the explosion was of a chemical nature and may have been caused by volatile chemicals stored in the basement. "At the moment I want to assure there is absolutely no reason to think this is anything other than a tragic accident, and we hope there is no loss of life," Mr. Liebowitz said. He added: "SDI has pooled its resources to bring in some of the City's finest healers to aid those who have been injured, as well as grief counselor's for those employees who need their services."

By one o'clock there was no longer any smoke or flames visible from the outside although numerous police cars, fire trucks and ambulances remained on the scene. Mr. Liebowitz added that the building appears to be structurally sound.

((An OOC note: What this means is, the base will be undergoing a /massive/ overhaul over the next few weeks. Yes, it will take a lot of time to do this. However, the medbay and teleporters will remain up and functioning during this restructure.))

No Charges In Skyway City Explosion
By Caroline Vincent

A fire and explosion at a Skyway City skyscraper which left 40 injured with serious burns was caused by an "unpreventable" chemical explosion.

A joint investigation by fire service and police found the cause of an explosion in Samiel Dayne Industries (SDI) Ltd's offices was an accidental ignition of gases. Despite the seriousness of the blast, no-one was killed in the explosion and a spokesman for SDI Ltd said all those injured had returned to work for the company.

U.S. Attorney Michael Styles announced the company had no charges to answer and had taken "every concievable precaution" to the safety of its staff. The explosion happened when a hydrocarbon vapour cloud released by a unit used to produce trioctane for forcefields was ignited.

A statement released by the Labor department follows a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation into the explosion, which found health and safety standards at the building had been followed "to the letter."

But despite the findings, SDI Ltd has set aside $700m in compensation for victims of the explosion and began a multi-million dollar refurbishment scheme with a number of state of the art security features to ensure such an accident cannot happen again.

Vanessa Tremaine, CEO of SDI Ltd was unavailable for comment yesterday, but in a statement released by the firm, Daniel Leibowitz said the company was relieved at the findings.

"We know that we were very lucky that no-one was killed in the explosion and would like to issue our thanks to the members of the emergency services, the public and the heroes of Paragon City who came to our aid after the explosion," he said.

"Although we're pleased that the Labor Department have ruled we have no charges to face, for us, the most important thing is that none of our employees were killed in this event, and that all were happy to come and work for us again."

Mystery cash gift gives cheer to Orphanage
2:09pm Friday 18th December 2009
By Tom Parkes


Staff and children at Little Angels celebrate an unexpected boost to their funds this week.

ORPHANS at the Little Angels orphanage in Kings Row are benefiting from the generosity of a mystery benefactor who donated $50,000.

Angela Tillett, manager at the Orphanage said: "There was a knock at our door just after 7am this morning, when I opened it, there was a basket on the doorstep, and something wrapped in cloth. I thought it was a baby that'd been abandoned, and my heart sank, but when I got it inside and opened it up, it was a toy doll. I thought someone was playing a joke, until I saw the money.

"I just couldn't believe it. I thought it was a joke, like someone had put monopoly money in a basket or something - but it was all there, and it's all real."

A hand-written Christmas card indicated the gift was "from Santa."

Graham Appleton, children’s services fundraising co-ordinator at the orphange, said he had no idea who had made the donation.

He added: "We don't know who donated the money and we have no way of thanking them, but we're so grateful to whoever it was. It will make a huge difference to the children who are in our care."

Owls cause Sellers Tower Penthouse explosion

The luxurious Sellers Tower was the scene of a tragic accident, when a group of owls inadvewrtedly broke a gas lineand an electric short circuit that ended up with the Penthouse reduced to ashes after going up in smokes.

Thanks to the efforts of the Steel Canyon Fire Department and some heroes members of the Fire Brigade, the damage was contained to the penthouse and no other residencies were affected.

Fortunately, no casualties were reported as all the members of the house staff were out doing errands when the explosion took place.

Earlier, the owner of the apartment, Brandy Holmes (32) was checked into Steel Canyon's Medical Center with multiple trauma and some internal injuries as the result of a car accident, the medical staff reports. Her condition is stable but she was unavailable for comments.

Curiously, no sign od feathers or dead owls were found at the scene. The report comes from a bird-watching eyewitness who claims he saw the birds 'attack' the pipe and the electricity cables.

Jimmy Choo Saves the World
6:00am Monday 11th January 2010
By Lois Parker


Image Source: Jimmy Choo

Saturday Night Live turns 35 this year and the show that began with the 'Not Ready For Prime Time Players' has always made its share of news. From the comedic sketches to the their own Weekend Update, which places a comedic twist on real news events, to the recent portrayal of Tina Fey as Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Pallen, the folks at SNL have always gotten our attention. But never with the plot of world domination.

Police and emergency crews were called to GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City, early Sunday morning shortly after Saturday Night Live ended for the evening. Several members of the building staff were found in a mindless, entranced state along with a strange, electronic box with a ruined Jimmy Choo shoe speared into it. The staff members recovered from their dissociative fugue with no recollection of their activities for several hours, two of them unable to account for the entire day. There was no record of unauthorized entry into the building and there exist zero security footage for the building since Saturday morning. The strange box was the only clue to what occurred that day.

Police analysts have since released that the strange box was in fact a mind manipulating device installed to feed into the NBC national broadcast feed. The Jimmy Choo pump, a tan Papaya style shoe, forcefully disabled the device, preventing the broadcast from being infected with the sinister signal. Police currently have no idea of the shoe's owner.

SNL, in the past, has done sketches with mind control plots including a hypnotic Ed McMahon mesmerizing Publisher's Clearing House winners into stuffing envelopes to Jon Lovitz playing Broadway hypnotist the Amazing Alexander convincing people, "I loved it. It was much better than Cats. I'm going to see it again and again."...


Image Source: SNL Archives

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In the back of the social section is a very small news article, detailing the quiet and downplayed ceremony in which Foresight (known for his work as a contact in the Hollows), presented Light Rave with a "Hero of the City" award, for all of his outstanding work abroad, in helping fight back the rikti.


((Yes, just a tiny self-glorifying post to say Light hit 50th. XD ))

Timely Action Minimizes Arson
February 06 2010




Yesterday evening, within the 'Industrial Avenue' of King's Row, a fire broke out in a small quiet bar called 'The Growling Hog'. It was a regular visiting place of Hellion and Skull patrons, kept in line by ex-hero Jimmy 'The Boar', who settled into a retirement after defeating his arch nemesis in a climactic battle years ago. Witnesses say dozens of Skulls and Hellions were seen fleeing the scene, as the building exploded into flame and smoke, thought to be caused by a brief gang war. Unfortunetally, little evidence remains as the building, and its owner, are both gone.

Architect Owen Smith said the building 'Suffered poor construction and a lack of fire safety measures', when asked why he thought the fire started, Owen simply replied 'You cater to Gangers, you're asking for trouble'.


Despite the almost total annihilation of the structure through the flames, its spread was kept very minimum by the presence of several Ice and Water weilding heroes. Combing efforts with the local branch of the Paragon Fire Department, property damage was kept very slight. Two buildings next to the bar suffered the most, but most of the damage was superficial.

To quote longtime resident John Roberts of the Apartment complex next door, "Nothing a fresh coat of paint can't fix".

Hero gives speech at local school

Friday, a member of the famed Wolfcry Division of Samiel Dyne Industries Ltd gave a speech at Public School number 183. The hero known as Shock Factory spoke for a total of twenty-six minutes and spent the entire time trying to discourage the students from becoming criminals and encourage them into staying in school. The students themselves seemed mostly bored during the presentation.

The real story in this reporter’s view though, is not the presentation that Shock Factory gave but rather his shadowy past. After countless hours digging into his past, it was determined that the demonic looking ‘hero’ is in-fact a mutant. Far worse than that though, it became clear that this mutant is also a murderer himself, one convicted of murder who spent a ridiculously short time in prison before being released on probation.

What could cause a convicted murderer to be released after only 2 years? Was someone bribed? Did this so called hero actually escape from prison instead of being legally paroled? Is this a new secret program that the government has started to keep the street’s filled with criminals?

This reporter wasn’t able to find the answers, but one of Shock Factory’s own family members who wishes to remain anonymous, did go on record saying “That abomination is no hero and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near kids. He’s a freak who should’ve been executed when he was caught!”

You decide loyal readers; Shock Factory, hero or villain?

Civilian Shows City What Real Hero Is

This afternoon two Paragon University students had a close call with disaster. While the students, Alison Danvers, age 21 and Heather Higgins, age 23, were making thier way home from a local novelty shop in Independence Port, they were accosted by two armed and dangerous assailants, Peter 'Nonsense' Raymond, age 24, and Jaime 'Cold Cut' Aarons, age 26. Both known gangers, the two have menaced the port district for years and it is only through the intervention of a concerned citizen that these two dangerous criminals were put behind bars.

The two traumatized girls gave statements both to the local police and this very reporter that a man, said to have exited the same novelty shop as the two girls, singlehandedly took down both gangers. The girls said this concerned citizen, not one of the glory seeking vigilantes that plague our fair city, was the one who came to their aid like an avenging angel.

When asked about their savior, the girls gave me this statement, "He was like an even hotter Bruce Lee."

Personally, This reporter applauds the actions of this Good Samaritan Kung Fu practitioner. More of Paragon's fine citizens need to realize, as the man in this report has, that they cannot trust these masked heroes to save them. Citizens need to look out for citizens and it is those who don't hide behind a mask and tights that are the real heroes.

AnimeGrab is a small novelty shop that caters to fans of Japanese animation on the corner of Pearl and Roe, located only two blocks from the water front.

Wolfcry Division Reaches Out


Samiel Dayne Industries has long been a strong name in the care of meta-humans, and its supergroup team – Wolfcry Division – has been patrolling the streets of Paragon for years in an effort to reduce the city’s criminal acivity.

Today, the Executive Chairman of S.D.I, Daniel Liebowitz, made a public statement regarding Wolfcry Outreach, a new extension to the Wolfcry Division supergroup.

“[Outreach] will be a new level of superhero activity, and it is our hope that we will be fulfilling the original intentions of Samiel Dayne when he formulated the idea for the supergroup,” said Liebowitz. “By forming contracts with charity organizations, both nonprofit and funded, the heroes of Wolfcry will work with these groups to give much-needed aid to the citizens affected by Paragon’s criminal activity.”

The Wolfcry Outreach program won’t be devoted to any specific cause, but is designed to be a venue through which charity groups can seek the aid of heroes. Liebowitz explained that the program is expected to grow as Wolfcry’s heroes bring deserving charities to its attention. The number of such groups will be limited based on the number of heroes serving the Wolfcry Division.

Liebowitz finished, “We focus on crime-fighting so much that it’s easy to forget the cost of collateral damage. Our motto is ‘Not the glittering weapon that fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart.’ We need to look past the guns and muscle if we’re going to do justice to that.”

Vanessa Tremaine, the company’s CEO, was also present, but did not take part in the announcement. When asked for comment, she said, “I’m sure Outreach will speak for itself.”

Today was the 5th anniversary of Wolfcry Division’s creation.

Renowned physicist to oversee repairs of Hadron Collider
February 26 2010
By ANDREW COSTIGAN
Science Correspondant

The world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment will finally be going into regular operation later this month, but it is going to operate at only half power for the next two years, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said on February 4th.

The Large Hadron Collider was built over 15 years and cost $10 billion. It's purpose is to accelerate protons to energies of 7 trillion electron volts apiece and then bang them together in a search for primordial forces and new laws of physics. But the machine has been constantly plagued with problems.

On September 19th, 2008, when the collider was first operational, an electrical splice between two of the superconducting magnets that guide the proton beams exploded during a test, casting doubt on the integrity of thousands of such splices in the collider, which is 18 miles around.

What is called a magnetic quench occurred in about 100 bending magnets in sectors 3 and 4 of the LHC, causing a loss of approximately six tonnes of liquid helium, which was vented into the tunnel, and a temperature rise of about 100 kelvin in some of the affected magnets. Vacuum conditions in the beam pipe were also lost.

Shortly after the incident CERN reported that the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, and that – due to the time needed to warm up the affected sectors and then cool them back down to operating temperature – it would take at least two months to fix it.

As a result, CERN’s engineers and scientists decided in a meeting in Chamonix, France this week to play it safe and operate the collider at only 3.5 trillion electron volts, or Tev, the energy unit of choice in particle physics, for the next 18 to 24 months.

The machine will keep running, CERN said, until it has recorded a significant amount of data roughly equivalent to about 10 trillion proton-proton collisions, rather than shut down for repairs next winter. Instead it will shut down in 2012 for the repairs needed to bring it to its design energy and it will start up again in 2013.

Although CERN has a number of engineers and scientists on staff, CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer released a statement earlier this week stating that they will contract a "renowned outside scientist" to oversee the LHC's repairs beginning in 2012.

Dr. Spencer Perlis, 32, a nuclear physicist and nuclear engineer at Paragon University and Samiel Dayne Industries, has been confirmed to be CERN's choice.

"I'm deeply honored to have been given this chance," he said in a statement released earlier today, "I cannot adequately express my gratitude and I will use all of my knowledge to make sure the Large Hadron Collider can function in the way CERN intended. The fundamental questions the LHC could answer will prove invaluable to the development of the human understanding of physics."

As one of the world's foremost authorities in the fields of nuclear physics and nuclear engineering, Dr. Perlis has been the lead engineer on the development of numerous accelerators currently in use by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Heuer has said that the choice of Dr. Perlis "will ensure that the LHC operates at its fullest potential, both safely and efficiently."

"I am confident in our choice," Heuer said during a press conference at CERN's facility in Geneva, Switzerland, "Dr. Perlis' work with the NRC has proven revolutionary and his assistance will be a great asset to our research."

Dr. Perlis plans to take a sabbatical from teaching when his work begins at CERN's facility in the fall of 2012. No information has been released regarding Dr. Perlis compensation.

Buisness Section of the Observer.

The blue and gold shield of a new buisness may soon grace the shores of Rhode Island. Herr Granther Koeln CFO of Parsifal Medbionics, LTTD of Cologne, Germany has announced the final decision for this rising bio tech industry to open offices and a plant here in Paragon City. Per Mr. Koeln cited were the favorable tax structure as well as a "chance to compete head to head with Crey Industries". Parsifal Medbionics has been noted as claiming a growing and larger share of the bio tech market in Europe and beginning to make a major showing in the US market.

A small advertisement in the Local Events section.

Crey's Annual Benefit Gala!
All proceeds from the Gala will be donated to various charitable organizations. The event will take place at 8:30PM on June 9, 2010.

For ticket prices and information, call xxx-xxx-xxxx

Society Section Paragon Observer:

Mr. and Mrs. Yuudai "Jude" Yamauchi are pleased to announce the wedding of their daughter Kohaku "Amber" Yamauchi to Lt James Mc Dermott of Paragon City Police Department. Lt Mc Dermott is a multiply decorated 9 year veteran and is currently attached to the Revenant Division of PPD as a trainer and instructor. Ms Yamauchi is well known as the heroine "Fro Zen". Services are to be held at the First Baptist Church of Paragon City and officiated by Rev. Donald Crump. Lt Mc Dermott's wedding party include several members who are local heros including Matthias Deveraux, Valdyr "Wolf" Larsen and others, with Frank Oswith of the Metropolis Police serving as best man. Ms. Yamauchi's bidesmaids also include members of the PPD as well as Janice Tratum, "Northen Lights" of the Paragon Knights, as maid of honor.