A traffic accident on the Palmer-Fishhook Road sparked a fire that was fanned into a major blaze by winds clocked at 40 mph with gust to 60 mph in the Mat-Su Valley on Thursday afternoon.
Two days after car bombs went off near a Shi'ite procession in Baghdad, killing 12 people, two back-to-back bombs exploded in two other Shi'ite cities according to Iraqi officials.
District Judge Sharon Gleason handed down a sentence of 41 months in prison and ordered Maggie Ahmaogak to pay $393,193.90 in restitution for theft, money laundering and misuse of Whaling Commission funds.
President Obama yesterday ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts for the severe storm, flooding ans landslides that occurred from September 15th to September 30th of this year. The President also declared that weather incident a major disaster.