Coast Guard sector Juneau Command Center watch standers received a distress call on VHF Marine radio channel 16 at approximately 8 PM on Wednesday evening. The distress call came from the two-man crew of the 36-foot, wooden-hulled Carrie Arlene.
Eight F-15 fighters took to the skies from Japan on Thursday in response to an intrusion into their airspace by a Chinese surveillance plane flying near the disputed Diaoyu Islands. The fighters, launched by the Japanese government were joined by a launch of an E-2C "Hawkeye" observation aircraft from Okinawa.
While Meth seizures from operations in the state of Alaska is down, staff writer Jeff Richardson of the Fairbanks News Miner reports that seizures of small portable operations have became more common.
Yesterday afternoon at 3:29pm, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office recieved a 9-1-1 call reporting a shooter at the Clackamas Town Center in Clackamas, on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. That 185-store mall is the largest in the Portland area.