Rupert Kinnard's career in graphic design is headed for another innovation: an electronic memoir that includes art, personal stories, and memorabilia that can be published in a book or even on the Internet with videos and music. He calls it the Life Capsule Project, and he hopes it will catch on with anyone interested in setting down their own life story ....

Join Dr. William A. Guillory, considered by many to be one of the most dynamic transformational speakers, and conference and seminar facilitators of our time will be at the annual Minority Enterprise Development Week celebration to recognize outstanding minority-owned businesses in Oregon and SW Washington at the Oregon Convention Center ...

Emerge, the national group that trains Democratic women to run for office, will be graduating their first class in Oregon on Oct. 3. On Oct. 15, Emerge is holding a meeting at the Urban League of Portland from 6 to 8 p.m. to discuss the upcoming 2010 mentorship class, scheduled to start in February 2010

Despite efforts by prosecutors to label murder defendant Jerrin Hickman as a member of a criminal gang, Judge Michael Marcus said doing so could unfairly bias the jury. Hickman is being tried for the Dec. 31, 2007 murder of Christopher Adam Monette. Monette was shot outside a party at 8407 N.E. Thompson St. by a man in a ski mask...

Pastor Mary Overstreet Smith has found a home for her Sir J. Millage Autistic Drop-Off Center. It was sitting under her nose all along...

Seattle schools will unveil its proposed student assignment plan at a workshop Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the John Stanford Center auditorium...

The Garlington Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. reopened Friday, Sept. 11, with a ceremony, followed by a picnic and celebration on Saturday ...

Attention: The 1 Bedroom Apartment waitlist for Ritzdorf Court Apartments is closed as of September…

SEATTLE (AP) _ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, best known for its work combating malaria, AIDS and other diseases, announced an effort this week to bring banking, including savings accounts, to the poor...

Northeast Portland is about to lose one of its artistic landmarks – and possibly the last outdoor mural that was painted in part by the late Northeast artist Charlotte Lewis.