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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Schools, universities, prisons, state police and courts could all be cut if voters reject a pair of tax measures aimed at raising $733 million from big companies and wealthy Oregonians, lawmakers said Monday...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Washington County has the worst record in the state for protecting children in state foster care.
Last month, state caseworkers failed to see more than 400 Washington County youngsters living in foster homes. And nearly 70 reports of suspected abuse or neglect were not investigated in the 24 hours or five days recommended, depending upon the urgency of the call ...

PARKLAND, Wash. -- A man with an extensive criminal past, whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted in Arkansas nearly a decade ago, was being sought Sunday as a "person of interest" in a deadly ambush on four police officers who were gunned down inside a coffee shop.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told reporters that Maurice Clemmons, 37, was one of several people investigators want to talk to and that he could not be called a suspect at this point.

For many people, especially Black males, the recession is looking more and more like a depression everyday...Among those looking for solutions is the Oregon League of Minority Voters. The League, established two years ago, recently launched a multipronged Poverty Campaign.