While on a day trip on Thursday of last week, 47-year-old Darrin Lemons and 32-year-old Ryan James, both of Fairbanks, sunk their airboat in a small isolated channel on the Tanana River.
The stand-off that took up all of the day yesterday in Kotzebue ended fatally for the armed suspect Arvid Nelson Jr.
Four Japanese climbers are feared dead on the western face of Mt McKinley after an 800 foot slide swept them from their feet at about the 11,800 foot level of the mountain and buried them.
The man who became famous in 1991, when a videotape recording showed him being beaten by LAPD police, Rodney King, was found dead this morning.