With a dilapidated building, a tight budget and no extra money to feed the 50 teens who flock to evening basketball, PAL's Eastside Youth Center is scrambling to meet the needs of Rockwood teens.

The Skanner News staff won two second place prizes in the 22^nd Annual A. Phillip Randolph Messenger Awards.

The FBI's new building belongs to a Las Vegas developer with a colorful past.

East Portland neighbors, businesses and nonprofits are working with Portland Police, the Rosewood Initiative and the county Sheriff's Office to bring fun to youth and keep Rockwood safe this summer.

A group of about 30 pastors from about 20 Portland churches want to make funerals gang-free zones, by banning the colors, clothing and music associated with gangs during funerals.

When it comes to the outdoors, Greg Wolley has been everywhere you can imagine, defying many stereotypes about African-Americans and wildlife.

SEATTLE (AP) -- For the first time, Washington's Supreme Court is setting limits on the number of cases that public defenders can handle -- an effort to improve the quality of legal representation for some of the 200,000 poor people prosecuted in the state every year, but one that could increase costs to local governments at a time of tight budgets.

Fired Oregon Commission for Black Affairs members Clifford Walker and Willie Woolfolk say they have been invited to hearings at the state capitol to "clear their names" – but as yet neither has been informed about exactly what they are supposed to have done to get the boot.

Michelle Obama wowed an enthusiastic crowd of 5000 graduates and their families at Oregon State University, where she gave the 2012 Commencement address.

Every year the Multnomah County Sheriff's office holds a huge Christmas party for students at the Community Transitional School. This year, Captain Rai Adgers says, they decided to do something bigger: Build a basketball court.