SEATTLE (AP) -- Three Seattle police officers were justified when they used a stun gun on a pregnant mother who refused to sign a traffic ticket, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a case that prompted an incredulous dissent.

Leisure Hour Golf invites you to its multicultural golf mixer. The "Let's Play Golf" Mixer – a 21 or older event -- will be held Tuesday April 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd Portland , OR 97211. Email [email protected] by April 6 to confirm.

The federally-funded G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training) Program – arguably a cornerstone of the bureau's youth violence and community outreach efforts – is facing massive defunding in Congress' 2011 budget.

For years, software designers, entrepreneurs and business leaders have argued over an "open Internet" model – where everyone is guaranteed equal access to the web, no matter their wealth. But now, some activists say building an affordable system of ultrahigh speed fiber optic lines is key to economic survival – especially for minority or low-income communities.

According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, law enforcement officers are one of four professions most involved in the use of illegal anabolic steroids. But in Portland, and many major and minor cities across the country, officers are not tested for these substances.

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America call them "perversion files," internal documents used to track Scout leaders suspected of sexually abusing young boys. A judge who had ordered the Scouts to release them received 1,247 files into evidence near the end of the day Friday -- the third day of trial that began with a lawyer saying "you will be the first jury to see them."

Portland has nine high school campuses: Benson, Cleveland, Franklin, Grant, Lincoln, Madison, Marshall, Roosevelt and Wilson -- named after six presidents, one chief justice, an inventor and a timber baron. But in 2011, only seven of those schools may be neighborhood schools, with the two others morphing into smaller, "focus" schools. Last week, in a six to two vote, the school board gave the thumbs up to the plan. They will vote on a more detailed plan in April or May.

The first day of bargaining over the Portland police union's contract with the City of Portland was shut down Friday morning over the issue of public access to the negotiations.

New research indicates that electronic control devices are more deadly than previously thought.
Dr. Marjorie Lundquist, a scientist from Milwaukee, Wis. presented her research at the meeting of the American Physical Society Monday, which identifies four different ways people can die from the administration of an electronic control device such as the Taser...

"If it 'ain't broke don't fix it." That's the message Portland Public Schools is getting in dozens of emails from parents whose children attend the city's most popular high schools, says John Wilhelmi, the administrator in charge of proposals to change Portland's high school system.

The trouble with that idea, Wilhelmi said, is that the system most definitely is broken – to the point it may violate the civil rights of Portland's less affluent students – many of them students of color.