Disappearance in Black Hills Forest

There has been another disappearance in the Black Hill Forest yesterday.  An as yet to be identified nineteen year old boy disappeared after a dare from his friends to enter the dangerous woods.  His friends, who prefer to remain anonymous, claim to have heard his screams of terror not long after he entered.  It was then the group ran from the area and contacted 911 for assistance. The police arrived shortly after, two groups of 10 officers entered the forest but could only find traces of blood and signs someone was dragged away before the trail went cold. 

This marks the second disappearance with a similar story this year, three the previous year.  For as long as our records go back for New Helena there have been disappearances in the Black Hills Forest every year, most of them young teenagers with friends who dared them to enter.  Five years ago a young couple vanished into seemingly thin air after mentioning to friends they were going hiking in the area.

 With a large wolf population whose howls can be heard every night from the forest, it has long been suggested, and begged, that our youth refrain from entering the woods for any reason.  May this newest tragedy make that request very clear.  Our calls to Animal Control have gone unanswered on this matter and we at News Helena wish to ask them why.  How many must die before something is done about the wolf population which seems to grow each year?

Helena County Fair

New Helena, Oregon- The Helena County Fair has rolled into town for it's fifteenth annual celebration. Get ready for good times and funnel cake as the gates open at six pm tonight!

The County Fair is located out across from the tulip fields on Airline Highway's fairgrounds.

Medved Walks Free

New Helena, Oregon - In the shocker of the century, Dmitri Medved walks from court a free man. After hours of deliberation, the jury concluded that despite obvious evidence against him, Medved was not guilty of any crime.

Not all rested well in court however, while the stands and the audience erupted with applause, the prosecution still approached Medved. Words were exchanged before he was seen to be snatching at Medved's girlfriend, Ms. St. Clair, only to bring Medved to react in the way he did, fists flying and knocking him back from her. While there was a faint threat rumoured to have been whispered, no charges were brought up and Medved walked free from court with Ms. St. Clair.

"I am free man." He stated outside of court, hand in hand with his girlfriend by his side before he was slipped off. His lawyer, however, left us with the closing statement of, "Oh G-g-gosh!"

Eruptions in Court Take New Helena by Suprise

New Helena, Oregon - The trial for Dmitri Medved continues onto today, court room heated up all through the afternoon with debates between the accused and his prosecution.

During his time on the stand, Mr. Medved admitted to the murder of Rosemary St. Clair. This caused a huge uproar in the court, until Dr. Joshua Feynmen, the expert witness on the trial and licensed clinical psychiatrist took the stand. After having several meetings with Medved, he was able to discern the logic behind what he did, explaining to the court how Medved had been hunted down by the former Rosemary St. Clair, was nearly killed by her and could only react out of self defense, to save the lives of all the remaining people he loved after loosing his unborn child to her.

Before the trial could adjourn for Jury discussion, however, Lilly St. Clair, Medved's longtime girlfriend - one of whom he had been with long before her legal age, as was revealed during trial - took a stand. Taking down her get up she could only shout to the whole court about her relationship with Dmitri and how he had been the one who saved her from the drugs that had consumed her life for the past five years, despite the prosecutions accusation that he'd lead Lilly into drugs instead.

Judge Jackson, in a simple statement outside court could only say that, "This case seems crippled by longstanding family issues. I suggest they all seek counseling."

Jury is in deliberation and is expected to come with a decision within the next few hours.

Medved vs The City of New Helena

New Helena, Oregon - Dmitri Medved, accused of the murder of Rosemary St. Clair, was taken into court today. His trail is scheduled for mid afternoon, and the presiding judge is none other than Judy Jackson.

His charges rest on voluntary manslaughter. His lawyer states that Medved pleads 'not guilty' for these acts, despite the substantial amount of evidence given that he had committed them. The verdict will come from court, and it is predicted that this case will be quite a hard one to settle, approximate date for court to be in session is several days.

He was taken into custody Friday evening around 11:00PM, after visiting family of the St. Clair's had tipped the police off to his location. Medved's girlfriend, Lilly St. Clair, accosted the police after his arrest and was taken into custody herself but was released that evening on a $50,000 bail. Medved remained in police custody, however, with no visitation rights or set bail. He has remained in Ivanov Penitatery awaiting court for nearly a month now, however, the court date was pushed forward for unknown reasons and he was last seen traveling north towards the Withycombe courthouse in downtown New Helena.

Welcome to New Helena

The bend in the highway takes you off your course, tempted by the sight of blossoming tulips in the distance. They go on for miles, one could perchance to say. If it were not for the smog, dusting over the fields and brought them into decay at the very edge of some hellsent town...
New Helena.

Welcome to New Helena, the sign reads. Obscure, obscene words graffiti'd onto the sign, the population statistic blacked out and replaced with one simple word. Dead.
It is but a lie. New Helena is alive, thriving in it's filth and decay. More alive than it ever could have been those odd hundred years ago when Sir Ivanov had sailed over the pacific, knocked off course only to crash upon the shores of Oregon. With no option and no way home, he could only use the remains of his ship to construct what would later become the metropolis of the Northwest.

Yet nothing ever remains as perfect as one wished it to seem, the gold rush driving in gamblers and their bands of prostitutes. When they found not the gold they were looking for, they began to take in more earthly pleasures: women and drink. Ivanov had tried desperately to put a stop to it all, but his most valiant of efforts had failed and late one evening he was snatched from his bed and hung upon the flagpost outside the courthouse.

It was morning when they found him. His wife, Anne, waking to an empty bed. Frantic as she ran through the town in merely her bloomers, amidst the hoot's and hollers of deviant men. To see her husband's corpse swaying in the gusty Oregon wind only sent her over to the edge. Unable to see a life for her without her husband, fear led her to extremes, tossing her own lithe body off the edge of Tillamook bridge. Tales whisper that in that moment she had felt the happiest she had ever in her life, flying through the sky and into the ocean blue to never be seen from again.

Until now.

New Helena, present day. One hundred years never changes much, except a population statistic. Old buildings still stand, crumbling beneath the sky scraping buildings of downtown, consuming every sign of a past that must be forgotten. After the Ivanov's death, under the direction of the new mayor, New Helena became the foundations of what it is today. A gambling capital, full of corruption and crime.
Each district has it's own tale to tell, wild stories of deception and debauchery. Hidden crimes and lost tales buried underground, never to be uncovered and heard by the ears of man again. There is no past, they will tell you.
There is only now.

Where will you go? Who will you become - or will New Helena simply become you? Do not turn your back to the darkness, for it is approaching quicker than you think.