Janssens, 47, joined the bureau in 1988 and steadily rose through the ranks of the state's largest fire agency before she became its first female fire marshal in December 2009.
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The Connected program, which in 2011 sought to bring 100 men out to a major gang hotspot every Friday night as a way to build positive relationships with young people, is branching out.
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At a time when gender barriers still had to be surmounted, eight women created better civic engagement with their personal strengths and social media tools, like contact lists written with pen on paper.
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A Salem lawyer for 15 men who said in lawsuits that a Catholic priest at an Oregon reform school sexually abused them in the 1970s faces a state bar association ethics complaint that he misled his clients about how the suits were settled.
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In September 1978, Yale freshmen would not have voted Maggie Gallagher the member of the Class of 1982 most likely to get pregnant before graduation. Gallagher was the third of four children from a close family in Portland, Ore. When she was young, her parents, a financial planner and a housewife, had been active in their local Catholic parish, and Gallagher and her siblings spent some years in ...
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In two new studies featured in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers are revealing how molecular imaging can be used to solve mysteries about difficult cases of breast cancer.
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Teen charged with attacking two Portland restaurant workers / Bangor airport now using new full-body scanners / Sheriff under investigation for comments to minister / . . . and other news from around Maine.
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The uniforms are 5 percent lighter than predecessor and use recycled materials in fabrics
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