PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon added 7,600 jobs in October, the biggest monthly jump in more than four years, but that was not enough to push a decline in the unemployment rate, the state Employment Department reported this week.

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In about 30 days, after the city finishes planting vegetation in the sewer swales and cleaning up construction debris, a project that has been over 20 years in the making will be finished. Well, nearly finished, that is.

Portland Police Officer Ron Frashour, under intense scrutiny after fatally shooting the unarmed and suicidally-depressed Aaron Campbell in the back during a stand-off last January, was fired today by the Portland Police Bureau.

Many people don't realize that most churches and religious groups allow organ donation. That's why this weekend, Nov. 12-14, has been designated as National Donor Sabbath. A study for the nonprofit Donate Life showed that 25 percent of people who are not registered donors felt they needed more information before they could commit to registering, and four percent mistakenly thought their church would not allow it. In fact, all major religions support organ, eye and tissue donation and see it as a final act of love and generosity toward others.

Officials around the state are slowing changing the way they view the prostitution trade.
Increasingly, lawmakers, police and prosecutors are viewing women who are prostituted, or who prostitute themselves, as victims.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Al Hadlock would be the first person to tell you how bad he messed up his life.

State Rep. Jeff Barker joined veterans who work as security officers for the private security contractor, Securitas, to push for unionizing the company, at a downtown press conference Wednesday, Nov. 10.

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The Skanner News is looking for local readers to take part in a focus group to help us in planning our company's growth over the next year, with the group meeting Saturday, Nov. 20, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at our offices at 415 N Killingsworth St.