An employee of Evergreen Timber Camp in Danger Bay was transported to Kodiak from Afognak Island on Sunday by Andrews Air. She had suffered a leg wound from a shotgun blast on the beach near the camp. The incident occurred at about 2:30 in the afternoon.
Monday was the scene of more bloodshed in Egypt after 51 were killed and hundreds more were wounded outside of a military facility in Cairo. There is no indication as to what set off the deadly confrontation. The army there blames the retaliation on a terrorist attack, while demonstrators blame the army for the bloodletting. […]
For the tenth straight day shells rained down on the key Syrian city of Homs as the Syrian army continued its push to take control of the city. Tanks, heavy artillery and mortars pummeled key districts in an attempt to cut the northern rebel fighters off from their counterparts in the south.
U.S. Senator Mark Begich today commented on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack’s memorandum specifying direction for the transition in the Tongass National Forest to timber harvest consisting solely of young growth trees.