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Apartment department: Officials with ceremonial scissors gathered Monday to cut the ribbon at the 252- unit Costa Mariposa apartment complex in Texas City. The ceremony marked the official opening of the 7555 Medical Center Drive complex developed by San Antonio-based The NRP Group. The complex is the first affordable multifamily development completed in the county since Hurricane Ike struck two years ago. Because it targets low- and moderate- income people Costa Mariposa was awarded post- Ike stimulus funds from the Tax Credit Assistance Program administered by the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs . The department issued $14 million in tax exempt bonds in addition to $8.5 million in tax credits to the developers. The department also awarded the project $3 million from a federal program designed to expand the supply of decent affordable housing for moderate- to low- income families and individuals. Costa Mariposa received another $2.5 million from the T...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 11:30 p.m. Police in the southern French city of Nimes have arrested a man unlawfully carrying a pistol into a train station, but say he is not linked to the attacks in Barcelona. After an evacuation and police operation at the train station Saturday night , the historic city quickly returned to normal, with police returning to their posts. A national police spokesman said the operation began when a passenger alerted police to a man with a weapon. Police quickly found and arrested him, said the spokesman, who was not authorized to be publicly named. The spokesman said the man has no apparent connection to Thursday's attacks around Barcelona, about 380 kilometers southwest of Nimes. French authorities increased checks of its border with Spain after the attacks, and one suspect is believed at large. ___ 10:50 p.m. Catalan regional police say they are mounting major road blocks throughout the northea...

by Lashay Wesley, KATU News Kevin Blodgett was homeless in Portland for eight years until he got help from the Department of Veterans Affairs . (KATU Photo) PORTLAND, Ore. —  Despite a pledge to end homelessness among veterans in Multnomah County, an Oregon Housing and Community Services point -in- time survey shows the number of homeless veterans hasn 't improved. The state conducted a survey of homeless individuals across the state to identify the number of homeless on one given night. According to the report, the number of homeless veterans in the state dropped by nine percent from 2015. It found there are 121 fewer homeless across the state. In Multnomah County, the numbers have stayed the same. In 2015, 417 homeless were counted. Earlier this year, 445 homeless were counted. In 2015, the city of Portland and Multnomah County pledged to end homelessness. Denis Theriault, a spokesperson for the Joint Office of Homeless Services for Portland and Multnomah County, told KATU New...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The grand opening of Creekside Village , the University at Buffalo's newest student housing complex , will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 22 in the community building of the complex on Skinnersville Road on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The fifth apartment-style complex to be built for student housing by UB in five years at no cost to New York State taxpayers , Creekside Village will open this month for graduate and professional students, including married students . The five projects have provided fully furnished apartments for 2,170 students that did not exist five years ago. The $ 11 million Creekside Village project , sponsored by the University at Buffalo Foundation and UB Alumni Association , is comprised of 13 two- story buildings featuring 102 two-bedroom townhouse units and 14 two-bedroom ranch-style units for a total designed occupancy of 232. Seven of the buildings are located along the west side of Bizer Creak on the northern edge of the North Campus near ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...