WASHINGTON D.C.-The FBI released documents yesterday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Associated Press. The documents, many of which were very heavily redacted, told the story of Russian sleeper agents on the prowl to gain access to secrets from people at the highest levels of the government.
ANCHORAGE-The pilot who died in the Era Helicopter LLC crash southwest of Iliamna Saturday, has been identified as 66-year-old William Zeman. Zeman was the senior pilot for Era Helicopters and was a resident of Douglas.
30 September 2011 –The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has rejected a request by the leader of the Serb Radical Party to discontinue proceedings against him, finding he had failed to prove that his right to trial within a reasonable period had been violated.
Today U.S. Senators from the Western states protected the needs of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and Alaska Native peoples in a letter calling on President Obama to strengthen tribal self-governance, support economic self-sufficiency, and honor the government’s agreements with Indian Tribes by fully funding contract support costs and joint venture staffing in his Fiscal Year […]