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WNBA Awards Portland an Expansion Franchise That Will Begin Play in 2026
The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. The Bhathals started having conversations with the WNBA late last year after a separate bid to bring a team to Portland fell through. It’s the third expansion franchise the league will add over the next two years, with Golden State and Toronto getting the other two.
Strong Words, Dilution and Delays: What’s Going On With The New Police Oversight Board
A federal judge delays when the board can form; critics accuse the city of missing the point on police accountability.
Oregon DMV mistakenly registered more than 300 non-citizens to Vote
Oregon DMV registered more than 300 non-citizens as voters by mistake since 2021. The “data entry issue” meant ineligible voters received ballot papers, which led to two non-citizens voting in elections since 2021
Here Are the 18 City Council Candidates Running to Represent N/NE Portland
Three will go on to take their seats at an expanded Portland City Council.
Common Cause Oregon on National Voter Registration Day, September 17
Oregonians are encouraged to register and check their registration status ...
New Affordable Housing in N Portland Named for Black Scholar
Community Development Partners and Self Enhancement Inc. bring affordable apartments to 5050 N. Interstate Ave., marking latest...
Benson Polytechnic Celebrates Its Grand Opening After an Extensive Three Year Modernization
Portland Public Schools welcomes the public to a Grand Opening Celebration of the newly modernized Benson...
Attorneys General Call for Congress to Require Surgeon General Warnings on Social Media Platforms
In a letter sent yesterday to Congress, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who is also president of the National Association of...
Washington State Library Set to Re-Open on Mondays
The Washington State Library will return to normal public operating hours Monday after remaining partially closed for the past 11...
Accusations of dishonesty fly in debate between Washington gubernatorial hopefuls
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington’s longtime attorney general and a former sheriff known for his work hunting down a notorious serial killer traded accusations of lying to voters during their gubernatorial debate Wednesday, as each made his case for becoming the next governor of the Democratic...
WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026
The WNBA is headed back to Portland, with Oregon's biggest city getting an expansion team that will begin play in 2026. The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal, who also own the Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer...
Brady Cook helps No. 6 Missouri rally past No. 24 Boston College 27-21
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Brady Cook passed for a touchdown and ran for another TD, helping No. 6 Missouri top No. 24 Boston College 27-21 on Saturday. Nate Noel rushed for 121 yards for the Tigers (3-0), who trailed 14-3 early in the second quarter. Blake Craig kicked four field goals. ...
Missouri gets Board of Curators approval for 0 million renovation of Memorial Stadium
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved a 0 million renovation for Memorial Stadium on Thursday during a meeting attended by SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The project, which will break...
Since 1975 when I was first named director of Albina Head Start, I’ve had the privilege of serving our community by providing educational opportunities for low-income Pre-K students and watching the program flourish.This month,
DOJ and State Attorneys General File Joint Consumer Lawsuit
In August, the Department of Justice and eight state Attorneys Generals filed a lawsuit charging RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software firm with providing apartment managers with illegal price fixing software data that violates...
As consumers struggle to cope with mounting debt, a new economic report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York includes an unprecedented glimmer of hope. Although debt for mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and more increased by billions of...
Why is Congo struggling to contain mpox?
KAVUMU, Congo (AP) — Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard. Last month, the World Health Organization declared the outbreaks in Congo...
A news site that covers Haitian-Americans is facing harassment over its post-debate coverage of Ohio
NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at a news site that covers the Haitian community in the United States say they've been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering a fake story about immigrants eating the pets of people in an Ohio town. One editor at the Haitian Times, a...
A 10-year-old Japanese student stabbed near his school in China has died
BEIJING (AP) — Officials in Tokyo said Thursday that a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures. A suspect is in custody. ...
,000 literary award named for the late author Gabe Hudson goes to Ayana Mathis' 'The Unsettled'
NEW YORK (AP) — A ,000 literary award named for the late author-editor-podcaster Gabe Hudson has been established by the publisher McSweeney's, where Hudson once worked. The inaugural winner, Ayana Mathis' “The Unsettled,” was announced Thursday, on what would have been...
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 22-28
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 22-28: Sept. 22: Singer-dancer Toni Basil is 81. Actor Paul Le Mat (“American Graffiti”) is 79. Singer David Coverdale (Whitesnake, Deep Purple) is 73. Actor Shari Belafonte is 70. Singer Debby Boone is 68. Country singer June Forester of...
Book Review: Joe Posnanski scores with poignant, informative, hilarious 'Why We Love Football'
Joe Posnanski is getting pretty good at this whole sports countdown thing. The award-winning sportswriter's previous books have profiled significant ballplayers ("The Baseball 100") and ticked off 50 of the biggest occasions in the history of our national pastime ("Why We Love...
Colombia suspends peace talks with ELN rebel group after a deadly attack on the military
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia on Wednesday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN,...
Refugees in New Hampshire turn to farming for an income and a taste of home
DUNBARTON, N.H. (AP) — It's harvest time in central New Hampshire, and one farm there appears to have been...
Threats and assassination attempts come with the office Donald Trump once held and is seeking again
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, following an apparent assassination attempt on him on Sunday,...
A Hungarian company is linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a duplex in a quiet neighborhood of the Hungarian capital is the headquarters of a...
A war with Hezbollah may be looming. Is Israel prepared?
JERUSALEM (AP) — With Israel's defense minister announcing a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli...
A 10-year-old Japanese student stabbed near his school in China has died
BEIJING (AP) — Officials in Tokyo said Thursday that a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school...
Italy's Supreme Court decided to retry Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox in the murder of Meredith Kercher saying the jury that acquitted them didn't consider all the evidence. The pair were acquitted in 2011.
At least 30 suspects have been arrested in the killing of two French journalists in northern Mali, officials said.
