You may have seen the advertisements in online newspapers and magazines: "Start your FREE trials to find the best deals in your neighborhood!" Inside, RealtyTrak.com – one of an array of such databases popping up across the Internet – lists thousands of properties in various stages of foreclosure, with satellite snapshots, tax and debt information....

As a result of the tremendous growth in the mortgage lending industry and an increase in consumer complaints, Department of Consumer and Business Services conducted a review of its mortgage-lending program and held a public forum in 2006. The department identified many consumer and industry concerns that needed to be addressed, and, since then, has taken several steps to strengthen its regulation of the industry...

Jefferson Book Fund-Raiser....     Winter Workshop....     Waffle Breakfast....

Members of the Distinguished Women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Portland Alumnae Chapter help at the registration table for the African American Health Coalition's 13th annual Wellness Village on Oct. 18 at the Blazers Boys and Girls Club. The village featured flu shots, a breast health workshop, vision, hearing and diabetes screenings and massage therapy.....

As plans for the June Key Delta Center, to be located at the corner of North Albina Avenue and Ainsworth Street, move closer to becoming reality, the Portland Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority recently inked an agreement with Portland Community College's Cascade Campus to use the campus' parking lot to meet occasional overflow parking needs associated with events at the June Key Center, which will serve as the chapter's new headquarters.....

Planned Parenthood broke ground at the site of their new facility at the corner of Beech Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Volunteers handed out ribbons of support as Okaidja and his band performed....

Amnesty International called on Nigeria's government Tuesday to declare a moratorium on capital punishment, saying dozens of prisoners on death row may be innocent.....

A former Chicago police official accused but never charged with beating, shocking and otherwise torturing scores of black suspects in the 1970s and 1980s was arrested Tuesday on federal charges of lying about participating in the abuse....

Garfield High School Symphony Orchestra will join Associate Conductor Carolyn Kuan and Seattle Symphony for two side-by-side performances featuring a Halloween-inspired program, including selections from Berlioz's playfully haunting Symphonie Fantastique....

Dr. Joe Feagin opens The Bush School's third annual Diversity Speaker Series with "Racism and Privilege: Things My Teacher Did Not Tell Me about U.S. History." Free and open to the public, the talk takes place on Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 7-9 p.m. at The Bush School, 3400 E. Harrison St.....