PORTLAND -- The Portland City Council made final approval Wednesday of a $1.6 million settlement with the family of James Chasse Jr., who died in police custody in 2006. Chasse died September 17th of that year after he was tackled by police officers who chased him for allegedly urinating in public. He was also shot with a stun gun. In addition to the financial settlement, the city will be ...
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Portland, Ore., is widely featured as a young, green, hip city; it also has gained a reputation as a national hub for child sex trafficking. State police report encountering three to five trafficking victims a week. Although the Sexual Assault Resource Center, an advocacy group that offers services to Portland-area ...
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Portland Mayor Sam Adams said he'll give lawmakers a chance to ban the bags statewide next year for 2012. If they fail, he promised to introduce a city ordinance that could take effect in October 2011.
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To get on the ballot, the petitions now need an additional 263 valid signatures.
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Some commenters debate whether marijuana use should be entirely legal, while others take issue with the rules and costs of using the new cafe.
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A proposal to allow non-U.S. citizens who are in this country legally the right to vote in the city of Portland has come up several hundred signatures short to get the measure on the November ballot.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Albina Community Bancorp , Portland's only certified community development bank today reported the company lost $1.1 million, or $0.80 per share, for the second quarter of 2010, following a $900,000 provision for loan losses, compared to a net loss of $1.7 million, or $1.29 per share, in the same quarter a year ago when the provision for loan losses was $2.3 million.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Software startup Lecere Corporation announced today that its FIRMS Software as a Service is a huge success at Trio in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
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PORTLAND -- A former University of Maine at Farmington student will remain on the state's sex-offender registry for a child-pornography conviction, upheld on Thursday by Maine's highest court.
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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wright Express Corporation (NYSE: WXS), a leading provider of payment processing and information management services to the U.S. commercial and government fleet industry, today announced that it has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire the Australian assets of Retail Decisions consisting of its fleet and prepaid card businesses ...
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