More than 100 demonstrators at an immigration reform rally outside the Federal Building in downtown Seattle have moved into the lobby of a nearby building that houses an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency office and court.

A group including Seattle City Councilman Larry Gossett locked arms during the noon hour Thursday and blocked the elevators.

The crowd is chanting ``Obama, you promised; you've got to keep your promise!'' 

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A Graveside Service with full military honors was held on May 7, 2010 at Willamette National Cemetery for Ernest E. Snells.

Roy Jay's Alliance of Minority Chambers, which operated a number of downtown parking garages in a venture with Star Park, has entered into a joint venture with Central Parking. The move comes after the Nashville, Tenn.-based company won the contract from the city of Portland.

GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy accused of fatally shooting his wife's parents was found dead in his Gig Harbor, Wash., home early Saturday, after an hours-long standoff with police, authorities said.

LEM, Ore. (AP) -- A corrections officer recently convicted of assaulting an inmate has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the state, saying his actions quelled a potential riot and the state used the incident as a pretext to fire him.

The Northwest Girls Coalition in Seattle hosts an event to provide insight and advice on various areas of career advancement on May 15.

SEATTLE (AP) -- A video showing Seattle police officers stomping on a man's head and body and using a racial epithet has prompted an internal investigation by authorities and disgust from the mayor.

Meet Democrat John Kitzhaber, once and perhaps future governor of Oregon:
Pressed blue jeans? Check. Jacket and open-neck shirt. Check and check.

When Mexican drug traffickers need someone killed or kidnapped, or drugs distributed in the United States, they increasingly call on American subcontractors: U.S.-based prison gangs that run criminal enterprises from behind bars, sometimes even from solitary confinement. Prison gangs long have controlled armies of street toughs on the outside. But in interviews with The Associated Press, authorities say the gangs' activity has expanded beyond street-level drug sales to establish a business alliance with Mexican cartels.
"They'll do the dirty work that, say, the cartels, they don't want to do" in the United States. "They don't want to get involved," said a former member of Barrio Azteca, a U.S. prison gang tied to Mexico's Juarez cartel.