By Katie Lovett The Gloucester Daily Times GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A burly court officer at Newburyport District Court, Mick Verga of Gloucester interacts with prisoners all day and keeps his cool. But when it comes to his 9-year-old daughter, Amanda, it’s a different story.

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Recent donation of collection of Frank C. Hirahara Family gives idea of life in post-war Portland A collection from the post-World War II era has been donated to Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center from the family of Frank C. Hirahara. While internees did return and resettle in Portland when released from camps including Minidoka after WWII, [...]

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By Beth Duff-Brown The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bowing deeply and shaking hands with shopkeepers along the streets of Chinatown, San Francisco’s newly elected mayor understands the significance. These are the people who put him in office, the people for whom he fought when he was an activist attorney, and the people who [...]

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By Gene Johnson The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Frivolous and selfish is how lawyers for Amazon.com describe a lawsuit brought by an actress upset that her age — 40 — was revealed on an Internet database.

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By Beth Duff-Brown The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor Ed Lee, born in Seattle and raised in Beacon Hill, held a commanding lead in the mayor’s race against a diverse slate of 15 candidates, but because he didn’t garner a majority in last Tuesday’s election, the city’s instant runoff system kicked in. Lee, a [...]

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By Jeffrey Osborn Northwest Asian Weekly Asian Americans haven’t always been welcome in the arena of United States politics. As the nation has grown older, policies have changed and boundaries have shifted; and political fields have changed as well. This has created opportunities for Asian Americans to enter the world of United States politics, but [...]

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By Kate Brumback The Associated Press BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s tough new law targeting illegal immigrants has provoked concern among Latinos — even causing some to leave the state — but members of other immigrant groups appear to be less worried.

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By Amy Taxin The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Asian Americans have seen their ranks swell over the past decade not only in coastal immigrant enclaves, but also in new places such as the southwestern states of Texas and Nevada, according to a report released last week by a coalition of Asian American organizations.

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By Ngoc Nguyen New America Media A few years ago, my father, a former naval officer in the South Vietnamese Army, developed liver cancer. The diagnosis followed decades of struggle with hepatitis C, a viral infection he contracted through a blood transfusion during the war. A liver transplant saved his life.

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By Dan Sewell The Associated Press DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — On the same afternoon thousands of Latinos in Alabama took the day off to protest the state’s strict new immigration law, Mexican-born Francisco Mejia was ringing up diners’ bills and handing containers piled with carnitas to drive-thru customers on the east side of Dayton.

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