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A fire in Northeast Portland burned an uncompleted building to the ground early Thursday morning. Firefighters arrived on the scene near the intersection of Northeast 36th Avenue and Killingsworth Street around 2 a.m. to find the partially built, 3-story apartment building “fully involved” in flames, Portland Fire & Rescue reported. Firefighters prevented the fire from spreading to

The US ambassador to South Africa on Thursday accused the South African government of delivering arms and ammunition to a sanctioned Russian cargo vessel late last year, local media said. “Among the things we noted was the docking of the cargo ship in Simon’s Town naval base between the 6th to the 8th of December 2022, which we are confident uploaded weapons and ammunition onto that vessel in

When local bureaucrats in Hennepin County, Minnesota, seized an elderly woman's home over a small tax debt, sold it, and kept the profit, they likely had no idea they would set in motion a series of events that would cripple the practice known as "home equity theft" across the country. Yet that's what happened. The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that the government violated the

The first day of early voting for the May 6 local entities election saw a slight uptick in voters when compared to the last local entities election in 2021. Polls were open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, and 1,563 ballots were cast at the 24 voting locations throughout Hidalgo County. For comparison, the 2021 local election drew 1,191 ballots at six polling locations on the first day of early