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jail booking photo (Images: Oregon State Police )" title="Sergey Fesik surveillance image and jail booking photo (Images: Oregon State Police )" width="180" style="border: 0px;" /> Sergey Fesik surveillance image and jail booking photo (Images: Oregon State Police ) PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - A Portland mechanic was sentenced to 30 days in jail for using an emissions simulator to pass DEQ tests .   The investigation began in August 2015 after Oregon State Police troopers received information from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality about an auto dealer suspected of using a device to pass cars that would otherwise fail DEQ testing . In December 2015, search warrants were served at Drive Credit and Global Auto Motors in Portland. Investigators interviewed employees from both businesses and learned 39-year-old Sergey Fesik was responsible for installing the simulator in the vehicles. Surveillance was also obtained from the businesses a...

Shares 273 By Maggie Lee Up on Peachtree Road on a sticky July morning , the sign at the Darlington Apartments already read 87 degrees a little after 10:30. James Curtis was on the sidewalk about a block up, alongside northbound traffic , eyeballing a work crew off the side of the road up ahead. He pointed to a broken-up patch of sidewalk at his feet that had filled with sandy dirt. That could stop an electric wheelchair, said Curtis. lacks good sidewalks . Credit: Maggie Lee" /> James Curtis says he wants to know why Peachtree Road, Atlanta’s main artery and one he uses often, lacks good sidewalks . Credit: Maggie Lee On just a few blocks to the north of the Shepherd Center where he volunteers in several departments, Curtis pointed out a half-dozen other obstacles that make it hard or dangerous to get by for folks who use mobility aids. There are cracks that could catch a wheelchair’s small front wheel , tip it over, throw out its user. There’s broken pavement and commercial...

Poulsbo, Washington / Alan November 8, 2015; North Kitsap Herald Low- income tenants at Woodcreek Apartments in Poulsbo, Washington are facing displacement from their formerly subsidized homes as a new owner undertakes renovations and increases rents. From the story: Kim Kinslow was among the first Woodcreek tenants to receive a letter notifying her that her tenancy had been terminated. She’d lived there for 15 years. Kinslow, 47, is on a fixed income. She had to move back in with her parents on Bainbridge Island. “I’m being forced to move in with my parents,” Kinslow said. “But still it’s humiliating.” An earlier story in the North Kitsap Herald also provides stories of tenants being forced to move. It’s a little hard to tell from these two articles exactly what is going on, but the basic outline is clear. Woodcreek Apartments was created with a federally subsidized mortgage from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Service (USDA-RDS). Owners of the pr...