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It's hard enough to organize a 40th class reunion. But when your school has been closed since 1981, the task is even harder.

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It's hard enough to organize a 40th class reunion. But when your school has been closed since 1981, the task is even harder.

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An expert witness for the prosecution testified Tuesday that Islamic charities based in Saudi Arabia, including the one an Oregon tree surgeon is accused of smuggling money for, were regular conduits of funding to Muslim fighters in the volatile Caucasus region.

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SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- A 127-year-old building at the Oregon State Hospital is getting a fresh coat of paint.

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Mark Williams says he will focus on parking, customer service

After working his way up for 20 years at the Oregon Convention Center, Event Services Director Mark Williams has moved on to different pastures. A pasture filled with lions, tigers and bears at the Oregon Zoo.

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Secure facility has emphasis on culturally competent care

In an unassuming building, the new Gateway Center for Domestic Violence sits nestled inside the Gateway Children's campus in East Portland. Off the MAX blue line at 102nd and Burnside Street, the yellow building will be a one-stop shop for women and men who feel unsafe in their relationships.

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Police rescind order of eviction but one finds his home in jail

For a week, a group of homeless people had made a clean and well-organized camp in an industrial part of Portland. Nestled in between a fenced-off area of Water Bureau property and a blackberry-covered hill on North Wheeler Avenue, the residents thought they had discovered a perfect, out-of-the-way place to live.

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UPDATE: All tickets have been awarded.

The circus is coming to town and your family could be the lucky recipient of free tickets courtesy of The Skanner News! The Wringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's circus is one of the preeminent circus entertainment organizations in America. Winners will receive four tickets to one of the shows held on Sept. 4 and 5. There will 20 winning families

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Advocates helping record number of buyers into their first homes

While banks around the nation are getting stingier about loaning money – a trend that's led to a catastrophic drop in the homeownership this summer — the Portland Housing Center just won $750,000 to continue building on its record number of clients turned into first time homebuyers this year.

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