The Unified Command for the Kulluk grounding announced today that some of the resources that were brought in and made available for the salvage operations of the Kulluk while she was grounded near Ocean Bay are being demobilized.
Some of the largest U.S. banks have agreed to an $8.5 billion settlement to resolve claims that they abused financially troubled homeowners as they sought to foreclose on their home purchase loans at the height of the country's financial downturn.
Another, smaller earthquake shook Southeast Alaska early this morning. The 4.0 tremblor occurred just to the north of the area where the large 7.6 magnitude quake shook up the region late Friday night.
Despite Alaska Militia member, Lonnie Vernon's, protests that the Federal Court System had no jurisdiction over him, and that he was sovereign, sentencing took place in U.S. District Court for Vernon's part in a plot to kill Federal agents.