Skinny's Road Fire Delays Motorists and Prompts Escorts Wednesday Night
Motorists along the Parks Highway experienced long delays between milepost 317 near Little Goldstream Creek and mile post 344 at the Parks Highway monument.
Alaska's Joint Armed Services Committee Hears Strategic Report
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Anchorage, Alaska – Alaskans should speak with one voice, advocate for new military equipment and missions, and consider spending state funds to lower energy costs, to avoid losing the benefits of military operations in the state, a consultant told the Legislature’s Joint Armed Services Committee (JASC) Tuesday.
First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered
Cambridge, MA – All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars, including our Sun, are born in small, benign groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms that survive for billions of years as stellar clusters.
Kimberly McCarthy Becomes 500th Person to be Executed in Texas since 1982
Kimberly McCarthy drew her last breaths Wednesday evening in Huntsville, Texas and was pronounced dead at 6:37 pm. She died 20 minutes after she was administered a single lethal dose of pentobarbitol. She became the 500th person executed in Texas since the re-start of the state's death penalty in 1982.