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Macy's has announced that it is taking its signature runway fashion show to 27 markets via regional movie theaters .... All of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Cascades AIDS Project....


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The Clark County Regional Support Network is embarking upon a project to improve the employment rate for individuals in RSN-funded mental health services....


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A new report explores the impact of changing food and agriculture systems on public health in Clark County, Washington....


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Carollynn Smith, the grandmother who has been fighting the Department of Human Services for custody of two of her grandchildren for the last four years, is getting some long-deserved help....


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JusFamilyRecords.com and vrtech presents the 10th annual Poh-Hop music festival, four nights of performance that includes dozens of top artists from around the Pacific Northwest....


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Learn how to start a business and take control of a business' finances through upcoming seminars hosted by Mt. Hood Community College's Small Business Development Center....


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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Democrat Barack Obama won the endorsement Sunday of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican and fellow African-American who served as the country's top diplomat in the first George W. Bush administration. He called the Illinois senator a "transformational figure."....

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GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- For Thelma Barnes, visiting Freedom Village is just too hard. As a secretary for Delta Ministry in the 1960s, Barnes helped establish Freedom Village, a community for Black farm workers who needed a place to live and a way to make money after being forced off plantations.....


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NEW ORLEANS (NNPA) - The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's office in New Orleans has announced a federal probe into the fatal shootings which occurred on a city bridge just six days after Hurricane Katrina.
"In the best spirit of law enforcement coordination, and at the request of the victim's families, the New Orleans District Attorney has referred the matter to the United States Department of Justice for review," U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said in a statement early this month.
Letten said his office, the Justice Department and the FBI would take "as much time and resources as necessary to determine whether there are any prosecutable violations of federal criminal laws in this matter."
"In order to insure the integrity of the process, no additional comments regarding this matter will be made until the review is complete," he added ....


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