19-year-old former Alaskan woman, Miranda Barbour, in jail on charges of murder in Pennsylvania, says that her killing spree as "Super Miranda" began in Alaska at the age of 13.
It was 150 years ago today that the confederate submarine, the CSA H.L. Hunley, named after her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley, attacked and sank the USS Housatonic in Charlestown's harbor on February 17th, 1864. That act, placed the occasion with the Hunley into the history books as the first sinking of a ship via submarine.
Despite its large size, the size of three football fields, asteroid 2000 EM26 cannot be seen from the usual backyard telescope as it zooms past the earth tonight beginning at 5pm Alaska Time.
Six days after suffering a serious fall in which he suffered a significant head injury, Alaska's last Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich succumbed to his injuries on Friday.