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With new grants from Spirit Mountain, the Collins Foundation, the Legacy Foundation and the local Rotary, operations at the Children's Community Care clinic are no longer the pressing issue of the day. For now, at least, Hicks can focus on more important things – health care for children.

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A gala reception celebrating the new Oregon Historical Society's exhibit celebrating the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church is tonight, Thursday, Aug. 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the society's museum, 1200 SW Park Ave.

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Primary fields offer voters an unusual bounty of credible candidates

The King County primary elections field this summer offers a bounty of credible African American candidates, as the King County Elections Bureau prepares to count more than a million mail-in ballots next week.

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From the mid-'80s to the late '90s, the number of youths in detention nationwide skyrocketed, with average daily populations ballooning from 13,000 to 28,000 in about a decade. A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that number is finally decreasing.

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In an interview at a Seattle coffee shop, Nickels shakes his head and calls claims he's difficult to work with "so much hogwash."

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According to officials, in the past six years the expanse of Grant County has made it a "quasi-safe haven" for between 20 and 25 Latino gangs that identify as either Norteno or Sureno brands.

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SEATTLE (AP) -- The Army is investigating an antiwar group's claim that a civilian Army employee infiltrated it, in violation of federal law barring the Army from conducting domestic law enforcement.

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Myrlie Evers-Williams, former NAACP chairman and widow of a civil rights leader, will be named a National Freedom Award winner Thursday by the National Civil Rights Museum.

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