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.

The March discovery in the Oregon woods of the wreckage of a World War II-era warplane has raised questions about whether this was the first time someone has seen the wreckage.

The plea from Haiti reached Eugene surgeon Snell Fontus on Jan. 17, five days after the earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation. "Snell, I need help," Dr. Louis Phillip wrote in a text message. "Can you send a team?" There were good reasons for Phillip to contact Fontus, his friend and a general surgeon at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield.

Fontus was born in Haiti, speaks French and had regularly visited the country before the quake.

There was once a time when Evelyne Ello Hart spent her days helping others. As the executive director of the African Women's Coalition, she helped the region's African immigrants cope the culture shock of a new country and city. She connected the women with each other, and to jobs.
Now, it's Ello Hart who is in need of help ...