State flags around Alaska have been ordered lowered on Wednesday for former Representative Niilo Koponen who died on December 3rd at the Fairbanks Pioneer Home at the age of 85 of natural causes.
A low dipping jet stream barreling out of the north and moving to the east has caused wide-spread storms and blanketing many states throughout the nation with snow, causing transportation problems on the ground and in the air.
South Africa and the world is mourning the passing of 95-year-old anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela who died on Thursday. Mandela was South Africa's first black president. He held office from 1994 until 1997.
20-year-old Robin Gattis, admitted drug dealer, confessed drug conspiracy ringleader, and son of Wasilla's Representative Lynn Gattis, was sentenced to 16 years in U.S. District Court on Drug Conspiracy charges during a three-hour sentencing hearing on Thursday.