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Alaska reviewing case against ex-VECO CEO Allen
Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan said his office is reviewing police reports compiled in a child sex abuse investigation involving former VECO chief Bill Allen...

UPS pilot killed in Dubai crash was Louisville's Cpt. Doug Lampe
UPS has officially announced that Captain Doug Lampe of Louisville, Kentucky, and First Officer Matthew Bell of Sanford, Florida, lost their lives in the crash of Flight 6 on Sept...

Fairbanks warehouse all that remains of Alaska steamboat operation - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Fairbanks warehouse all that remains of Alaska steamboat operation
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Old Northern Commercial Co. and Samson Hardware warehouses on the north bank of the Chena River in 2009. .
Ice Alaska wants Fairbanks riverfront developmentJuneau Empire

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Bristol Palin dances
There is a freak show quality to this year's newly announced list of "Dancing With the Stars" participants, even by the show's increasingly bearded lady-Kate Gosselin standards...

Men rescued after boat runs aground in southeast Alaska
The Coast Guard says two men were injured when their skiff ran aground about 80 miles north of Sitka...

Alaska Independence Party denies Bill Walker - Alaska Dispatch
Bill Walker won't be running for governor on the Alaskan Independence Party ticket. Don Wright of Wasilla has decided to keep his spot as the party's gubernatorial candidate, party chairwoman Lynette Clark said ...

Alaska, Horizon see uptick in passengers
Alaska Airlines posted a 10 percent passenger traffic increase last month. That August traffic rise helped bump up the SeaTac-based airline's traffic for 2010 by 9.1 percent, the airline said Friday...

Meet Scott McAdams, An Alaska Democrat And US Senate Candidate - Huffington Post (blog)

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Meet Scott McAdams, An Alaska Democrat And US Senate Candidate
Huffington Post (blog)
Scott McAdams, the Democrat running for the US Senate in Alaska against Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, is a burly dark-haired guy who looks every bit the .
Tea party's Joe Miller: What he plans if Alaska sends him to WashingtonWashington Post
Joe Miller Alaska Tea Party Senate Candidate Campaign Funded By GodWise Politics (blog)
Correction: Alaska SenateThe Associated Press
Daily Kos (blog) -Los Angeles Times (blog) -Alaska Dispatch (blog)
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Magnitude 2.9 - GULF OF ALASKA
160 km (100 miles) NE of Kodiak, Alaska 275 km (170 miles) S of Anchorage, Alaska 930 km (580 miles) W of JUNEAU, Alaska. Location Uncertainty, horizontal +/- 0.9 km (0.6 miles); depth +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles) ...

Alaska's Joe Miller Takes Slim Lead Over Lisa Murkowski - The Epoch Times
. Senator Lisa Murkowski lost in the Alaska Republican Senate primary Tuesday to Joe Miller by about 1,900 votes . Miller has been supported by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Although Palin resigned as ...

Apache, Occidental Could Bid For BP Alaska Assets - Benzinga

Apache, Occidental Could Bid For BP Alaska Assets
Benzinga
BP (NYSE: BP), Europe's largest oil company by production volume, will attempt to sell a stake in its Prudhoe Bay assets in Alaska again after failing to .
BP revives bid to sell Alaskan assetsFinancial Times
BP again talking about selling Alaska assets, London newspaper reportsFairbanks Daily News-Miner

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Murkowski became a 'capable, energetic' leader in Alaska politics - Alaska Journal of Commerce
. Alaska's statehood. Joe Miller, a self-styled constitutional conservative backed by the Tea Party Express . Ivan Moore, an independent pollster in Anchorage. "And the answer to that question is because Lisa ...

Magnitude 2.7 - SOUTHERN ALASKA
Depth, 28.3 km (17.6 miles). Region, SOUTHERN ALASKA. Distances, 60 km (40 miles) SW of Homer, Alaska 150 km (90 miles) SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 260 km (160 miles) SSW of Anchorage, Alaska 1035 km (640 miles) WNW of JUNEAU, Alaska ...

Alaska moves to delist sea lions
ANCHORAGE, Alaska EUR” The state of Alaska has petitioned the federal government to delist the eastern population of Steller sea lions as threatened. Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday that the state also will challenge a draft federal biological opinion that concludes commercial take of groundfish is inhibiting recovery of Steller sea lions in the western population, which covers the Aleutian Islands ...

Magnitude 3.4 - ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
165 km (100 miles) ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska 1965 km (1220 miles) WSW of Anchorage, Alaska 2760 km (1710 miles) W of JUNEAU, Alaska. Location Uncertainty, horizontal +/- 1.4 km (0.9 miles); depth +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles) ...