Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:56 PM EST
A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man and his father pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska attorneys by phone.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:48 PM EST
Students are back in class. Vulnerable roofs are shoveled for the most part. Snow removal crews are getting a breather as skies stay clear over this corner of Alaska.
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Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:01 AM EST
Living in Alaska's outer reaches is challenging enough, given the isolation and weather extremes, but at least three remote communities also have experienced weather-related late deliveries of fuel so crucial to their survival during an especially bitter winter.
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Sun Jan 8, 2012 6:26 PM EST
The worst winter anyone can remember in Alaska has piled snow so high people can't see out the windows, kept a tanker in ice-choked waters from delivering fuel on time and turned snow-packed roofs into sled runs.
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Tue Jan 3, 2012 2:51 PM EST
Two Pennsylvania men accused of harassing Sarah Palin's lawyers in Alaska by phone plan to forgo trial and again plead guilty, this time without the benefit of a plea agreement.
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Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:22 PM EST
Voters in a tiny Native village increasingly eroded by storms on Alaska's northwest coast have overwhelmingly said yes to building a new school 7 miles away, a step some hope will eventually lead to the seemingly impossible task of relocating the remote community.
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Tue Dec 27, 2011 3:55 PM EST
An Alaska teenager allegedly injected with heroin by a 26-year-old man died Thursday, almost a week after suffering the drug overdose, Anchorage police said.
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:45 PM EST
A man and woman were found dead with their unharmed baby in a remote western Alaska village when worried relatives went to check on them, family members said Monday.
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:24 PM EST
Two Pennsylvania men accused of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers by phone are going to have to stand trial.
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Tue Nov 8, 2011 3:34 PM EST
Rescuers flew a member of the cable TV series "Deadliest Catch" fishing crew to a remote clinic in Alaska after he collapsed and showed signs of shock and dehydration on board a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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Fri Nov 4, 2011 7:46 PM EDT
The U.S. Army charged an Alaska-based soldier Monday with attempted espionage, saying he communicated and transmitted national defense information to someone he believed was a foreign intelligence agent.
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Fri Oct 7, 2011 3:03 PM EDT
The former space shuttle pilot at the center of a bizarre love triangle involving another astronaut survived a small plane crash last month in rural Alaska, federal officials said Friday.
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Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:21 PM EDT
A rocket launched from an Alaska island Tuesday is carrying an experimental Navy satellite designed to provide safer combat communications.
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Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:31 AM EDT
The chamber of commerce in a picturesque and quirky Alaska town is dumping its affiliation with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the national organization's right-leaning platforms.
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Thu Sep 8, 2011 3:37 PM EDT
The survivor of a midair collision in Alaska last week that killed her boyfriend, who was piloting the other plane, managed to land her badly damaged aircraft as it slowed dangerously to near stall-speed, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:16 PM EDT
A former police officer in Alaska was sentenced Thursday to three months in federal prison and fined $10,000 for living in the country illegally under a stolen identity for more than two decades.
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Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:57 PM EDT
An orange-colored goo that streaked the shore of a remote Alaska village turned out to be fungal spores, not millions of microscopic eggs as indicated by preliminary analysis, scientists said Thursday.
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Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:21 PM EDT
A federal investigator looking into a fatal plane crash in Alaska said Monday one of the four survivors told him the small aircraft struck the side of a mountain in fog so thick, it created whiteout conditions.
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Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:07 PM EDT
Sarah Palin is a grandmother again.
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Wed Aug 3, 2011 5:14 PM EDT
Alaska officials have dismissed an ethics complaint filed against former Gov. Sarah Palin that alleged she violated state law because the TLC docu-series "Sarah Palin's Alaska" took advantage of a state film production incentives program she signed into law.
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:28 PM EDT
The four young students who were mauled by a grizzly in the Alaska wilderness were well prepared in their survival training but could not have avoided the encounter, outdoors experts said Tuesday.
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:18 AM EDT
The teens had been advised to play dead if they encountered a grizzly during their excursion in the Alaska wilderness.
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Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:30 PM EDT
As the grizzly furiously thrashed him about in the Alaska wilderness, all Sam Gottsegen could think about was what he would miss: college, traveling, life.
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Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:48 PM EDT
The teenage outdoor education students, having progressed to the point of being on their own in the vast Alaska wilderness, were lined up single file for a river crossing when the grizzly burst with fury into the front of the line, badly mauling two in the group and injuring two more.
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Wed Jul 6, 2011 4:16 PM EDT
The family of a 19-year-old man accused of stalking Sarah Palin is alleging harassment by a Pennsylvania state trooper in connection with the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate.
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