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President Larry Miller wants to transform the Rose Quarter

Representatives of the Portland Trail Blazers and Portland Winterhawks minor league hockey team announced a partnership last week in the drive to convert Memorial Coliseum and Rose Quarter into an active entertainment district...

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In the wake of a required 60-day background investigation by local officials, the racial discrimination tort claim by three law enforcement employees against Clark County Corrections has expanded into a full-on lawsuit seeking millions in damages.

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DIRECTV has generated more consumer complaints to the Washington Attorney General's Office than any other business in 2009, and the Washington Attorney General says he plans to take the company to court to change its practices.

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How community worship is transformed by displacement

On Sunday mornings you can find Mathew Williams at Highland Christian Center. The church moved to its current location on Northeast 76th and Glisan Street in 2005 after outgrowing its former building at Northeast 18th and Alberta Street. "I've been going to Highland for 13 and a half years," Williams says. "We went from 20 to over 1,000."

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Pastoral Rev. Dr. T. Allen Bethel and his wife Daphne Bethel hosted a celebration of their 15th anniversary leading the congregation at Maranatha Church, Oct. 16 at the Legacy Emanuel Hospital Atrium.

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In the coming weeks, Portland City Council will take into consideration policy recommendations put forth by a committee formed to address prostitution on 82nd Avenue. The 82nd Avenue Prostitution Advisory Committee issued the 62-page report Wednesday to City Council, outlining a plan to address why the neighborhood draws prostitutes and johns, and to more effectively get prostitutes to social services to keep them from returning to the streets...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- In an instant, the fire in Greg Oden's eyes was gone. As he was taken from the Rose Garden floor on a stretcher, defeat was written all over the 7-foot center's face...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The somber Portland Trail Blazers found it difficult to celebrate a victory after losing Greg Oden.


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When Al Forthan knew he was going to die, his only regret was not having more time to give to those in need. Although most of his life consisted of drug dealing, hustling, criminality and prison, Forthan spent his last 10 years helping others at the Volunteers of America Men's Residential Center. Now, nearly three years after his death, an education scholarship in his name has grown to nearly $10,000 and is helping low-income students affected by addiction get an education...

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Like it or not, sometime within the next five years, you'll definitely be paying a toll — no one knows how much it will cost — to pass through Portland on Interstate 5 – probably. At least for a little while. The Oregon Legislature's new law requiring an experimental "congestion pricing" highway toll pilot project ...

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