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After nearly four years, the Providence Newspaper Guild has reached a new agreement with Providence Journal management that improves wages, pensions and other benefits.

The contract is retroactive to January 2000 and expires December 2007.

CWA members swelled the ranks of well over 100,000 union members and supporters who commemorated Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, by demanding collective bargaining and organizing rights for all workers.

Two students at Empire State College in New York have been named winners of Morton Bahr scholarships for 2003, and the competition for 2004 is underway.

In honor of Black History Month, we've hidden the names of 11 heroic African-Americans in this month's puzzle. They include the very famous, such as civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and heroes who aren't as well known, such as Sgt.

Jim Harlan is a world-class cyclist, a fearless skier who takes on Colorado's double black diamond slopes and - between his jobs as a ski patrol dispatcher and a preschool teacher - he occasionally squeezes in some rafting, kayaking and fishing.