Ten American sailors are reported missing and five injured after the U.S. Navy destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant ship east of Singapore, near the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. 7th Fleet released a statement early Monday that the guided-missile destroyer collided with the Liberian-flagged Alnic MC at about 6:20 a.m. local […]
Jerry Lewis, legendary slapstick comedian, and longtime national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, past away on Sunday morning at his home in Las Vegas at the age of 91. Born Jerome Levitch, on March 16th, 1926, Lewis began his career on stage at the age of five performing with his parents in the Catskills […]
A few days ago, Cora the dog and I walked across a footbridge spanning a natural moat flowing through northern tundra plants. There, we reached mile 0 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the finish of a south-to-north walk across Alaska, most of it on the service road that parallels the pipeline. Though the orange-and-black mile […]
The Ted Stevens International Airport Air Traffic Controller, 33-year-old Justin Schneider, who was arrested on August 8th, following a violent attack on a woman at 36th and Wisconsin in Spenard, has now been indicted by an Anchorage grand jury on Assault and Kidnapping charges, APD reports. It was on Tuesday before last that Schneider offered […]