Cigarette butts, plastic bags, styrofoam cups, fast food clamshell containers, dirty diapers, and other litter float in Ballona Creek, south of Marina del Rey, after it rains.

I recently stayed here on a business trip, and I had a relaxing time. The hotel had excellent facilities for our meeting, and the food at the on-site restaurant Fitzgerald's hit the spot. If you stay, my reccomendation, try and take a day to see Cherry Creek Park. It's great for four-wheeling!

Smith Frozen Foods, the Pendleton-area processing plant owned by U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, has paid a $3,000 fine for discharging wastewater into a nearby creek in late July.

U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith's frozen foods processing company has paid a $3,000 fine for discharging wastewater from its Eastern Oregon plant into a nearby creek, state officials said Friday.

Call it St. Patrick's Day in September: A dye test on the Brodhead Creek, conducted by the Brodhead Creek Regional Authority, turned the creek an unimaginable shade of green Wednesday around noon. Traces of the concentrated food coloring were still visible by dusk Wednesday.

The Indian Creek massacre occurred on May 21, 1832 when a group of settlers living 6 miles north of Ottawa, Illinois, United States, along Indian Creek, were attacked by a party of Native Americans. The massacre likely resulted from a local settler's stubborn refusal to remove a dam which jeopardized a key food source for a nearby Potawatomi village. A band of between 20 and 40 Potawatomi and three Sauk warriors attacked the cabin site. Fifteen settlers, including women and children, were massacred at the site near the present-day border of LaSalle and DeKalb Counties. Several people escaped the massacre and two young women were kidnapped by the raiders to be released about two weeks later unharmed.In the aftermath of the massacre white settlers fled their homes for the safety of frontier forts and the protection of the militia. The Indian Creek massacre was later used as justification when U.S. soldiers and militia massacred many in Black Hawk's band at the Battle of Bad Axe. The events at Indian Creek were peripherally related to the Black Hawk War and are seen as an act of personal revenge that was not sanctioned by Black Hawk. Though there are a number of historical discrepancies in the details surrounding the events at Indian Creek, historians have generally agreed on the contentious points. Today, the site of the massacre is marked by a memorial in northern LaSalle County.