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Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 14 January 2016

The new hiring standard, based on the NFL’s ‘Rooney Rule,’ requires city to interview at least one minority, female or disabled candidate

Details: Written by Donovan M. Smith; Published: 14 January 2016

Event has equipped the city’s young with life skills through hip hop since 2007

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 10 January 2016

Video: Dr William Li on healing animals and eating to beat cancer

Details: Written by Donovan M. Smith; Published: 08 January 2016

Series of short ‘video portraits’ attempts to capture the diversity of people of African descent

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 07 January 2016

Photo by Eli Duke (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr

Petition to rehabilitate the never-used jail has 1,700 signatures

Details: Written by Christen McCurdy; Published: 07 January 2016

The city of Portland must rehire Officer Ron Frashour, who was terminated after shooting Aaron Campbell in 2010.

Officer who shot Aaron Campbell to return to duty

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 04 January 2016

Militiamen converge on Burns to dismay of some locals

Details: Written by Christen McCurdy; Published: 31 December 2015

The officer who shot Aaron Campbell, shown here in a Skanner file photo, must be reinstated per an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling.

Activists plan protests Thursday morning

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 29 December 2015

Thousands in the Portland metro area stand to lose their food assistance Jan. 1.

Rule change to affect able-bodied adults without dependents

Details: Written by MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press; Published: 28 December 2015

his file photo from Dec. 8, 2014, shows Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer, as she speaks during a news conference in Cleveland. Leonard Warner, right, Tamir's father, listens. A decision on whether to charge two white officers in the death of Tamir Rice, one of the higher-profile cases of black deaths at the hands of officers that have roiled cities nationwide, could come any day. The grand jury making the decision has been meeting since mid-October. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Rice family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the two officers and the city of Cleveland