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Leesha Posey remembers cutting across a vacant lot in North Portland on her way to Harriet Tubman Middle School . "It's been empty since I was a little girl," says Posey, 41. That was three decades ago. But the lot still sits empty—a rarity in a city where vacant land is coveted, especially in the red- hot North Williams Avenue corridor . Its emptiness is a reminder of what the city and its urban renewal agency , Prosper Portland , took from the black community . In the 1960s, the city-owned agency, then known as the Portland Development Commission , condemned vast tracts of inner North and Northeast Portland . The takings—including the still-vacant block at the northwest corner of North Williams Avenue and Russell Street—allowed urban renewal, including construction of parts of Interstate 5, the Oregon Convention Center and Legacy Emanuel Hospital . But in the process, the agency gutted neighborhoods and dispersed the black community . In a belated ef...

ST. LOUIS • Police said an officer shot and killed a man who had stabbed an officer inside an apartment Tuesday morning . But a woman who said she was related by marriage to the person killed said that person was a transgender woman named Kenneth “Kiwi” Herring. The relative, Crevonda Nance, said police shot and killed Herring shortly after responding to the latest dispute in an ongoing feud between Herring and unfriendly neighbors. +9  A photo of Kenny "Kiwi" Herring is displayed on a sign during a protest and memorial outside her home in the 5200 block of Ridge Avenue in St. Louis on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. Earlier in the day Herring was fatally shot by police. Police say Herring cut one of the officers with a knife before they opened fire. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com David Carson Speaking just after the shooting, Interim Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole said the officer suffered a cut to his arm during the encounter. The injured o...

Joyner Commercial announces the following transactions: Steve Greer and Matt Carter were the agents in the lease of 1,600 SF at 24 Vardry St., Suite 203, in Greenville to Jordan Construction. Ted Arnold was the agent in the sale 2,400 SF of warehouse space at 102 S. Moore St., Duncan. Wayne Smith and Hope Tz Schmalzl were the agents in the sale of the business at 2829 Gentry Memorial Highway , Pickens. Hays Reynolds was the agent in the sale of a restaurant at 110 W. Butler Road in Mauldin to White Horn LLC . Matt Carter was the agent in the lease of 1,281 SF of office space at 221 Cooper Lane, Easley, by Karick Development to Technoflex Inc. Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announces the following transactions: Brian J. Young and Lyn Norton were the agents in the sale of two industrial buildings totaling 342 ,838 SF on 39.25 acres at 3001 N. Blackstock Road , Buildings 1 and 2, in Spartanburg, by RT Blackstock Complex LLC to Crimson Palmetto Holdings LLC . Charlie Whitmire was t...

WASHINGTON — Drivers who sit in one of the most agonizingly slow daily stretches of traffic in the D.C. region could get a new way around it. There are four potential options to cut down on traffic jams on and around Va. Route 28 from the area near Bull Run — the Fairfax County line — through Manassas, Manassas Park and Prince William County . Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Chairman Marty Nohe said two options tied to an extension of Godwin Drive appear the most promising. Godwin Drive runs parallel to Va. Route 28 just west of the city of Manassas. Under the plans, it could be extended along land once considered for part of a “Tri-County Parkway” past Prince William Hospital and Splashdown Water Park to connect to Route 28 either just south of Bull Run or just across the creek in Fairfax County , using Ordway Road to connect to the work already underway to widen Route 28 in Fairfax County . Any changes would also fit in with other Route 28 widening projects to the s...