PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- As an inmate test subject for medical experiments being conducted at Holmesburg State Prison, Edward "Butch" Anthony says he had mysterious substances dabbed on his skin and injected in his veins.
Then came faintness, painful rashes, hands ballooning to the size of boxing gloves, nails so thick and rough they required a wood file, pus-filled blisters that left him in agony.
But it wasn't until he was handed a little cup of clear liquid to drink that things got so strange, he says, the inmates gave him a new name: Outer Limits....

NEW YORK (AP) _ Will Don Imus be defiant or contrite? Will he mock his skeptics while making his triumphant return to radio Monday.
Or will he muzzle his mouth?
"That question is part of the drama of his reemergence," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, an industry trade journal. "Imus faces some choices."
Imus isn't talking, yet, but it's safe to say radio's best-known curmudgeon will have lots to say when his show kicks off at 6 a.m. EST Monday on WABC-AM and other Citadel Broadcasting Corp. stations around the country, ending his nearly eight-month banishment from the air.
The morning show will be simulcast on cable's RFD-TV, owned by the Rural Media Group Inc., and rebroadcast on radio in the evenings. ...

The Skanner 22nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast will be held on Monday January 21, 2008, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. at the Hilton Portland Executive Tower Hotel, 921 SW 6th Avenue, Portland. Reserve your table at MLKBreakfast@theskanner.com

If you are searching for a well-paid career in an exciting and growing field, you might want to take a look at information technology or engineering. The trouble is … African Americans seem to be looking the other way.
Just about seven out of every 100 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A cooling housing market helped cut about $132 million from the state's expected income, dropping the government's total surplus to less than $1.4 billion as Gov. Chris Gregoire and lawmakers prepare to update the state budget.
ChangMook Sohn, the state's chief economist, said Thursday the income drop was the first major setback in quarterly revenue projections in about four years.
Still, Sohn called the lower income numbers  ...

Seattle doesn't say hip-hop like New York City, Detroit or Los Angeles. Sure, Sir Mix-A-Lot grabbed national attention in the mid 1980s with "Baby Got Back, " but that was eons ago in hip-hop time. Now, with exciting young artists such as Blue Scholars, Unexpected Arrival, Dyme Def and Oldominion stepping onto the Emerald City's hip-hop stage, that looks set to change.
The city's new generation of hip-hop artists have something to say. And not just about back, booty and trunk junk. Take Anthony Shears, for example.  With the ...

Dida Abuna and his 2-year-old son, Moti Abuna ...

Tony Swan is not famous. He lives in a small apartment in North Portland. He takes public transport when he visits his friends. Yet the modest guy with a voice that any late night dj would envy, is the proud owner of not one, but two Olympic Gold medals.
In October, Tony Swan won a gold medal in the doubles bowling at the Special Olympic World Games in Shanghai, China. He also earned a gold medal for rollerskating at the 1991 Special Olympics games, held in Minneapolis. Next month, Swan will be honored with the Shriver Greatness Award at the Governor's Gold Awards ...

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The way Wanda Broadous sees it, if the only remaining African American fraternal organization in the city is lost, yet another piece of Portland's Black heritage will be lost with it.
But unfortunately, the organization's home – which is open to the public – is rundown. Aging and weather-worn, most of its windows boarded-up for nearly two decades, the Billy Webb Elks Lodge building, 6 N. Tillamook off Williams Avenue, is in need of repair. It's also in need of community support, says Broadous, who has been commissioned to increase participation at the old community hall. ...