Today, Tuesday October 16th, Alaska State Troopers released the name of the state trooper who was involved in the officer involved shooting on Trunk Road near the roundabout east of Wasilla.
The Houston woman involved in the head-on collision at mile 66 of the Parks Highway on October 7th, succumbed to the injuries she sustained in that crash at an Anchorage hospital on Sunday October 13th.
Sixty five years to the day since Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 airplane, Austrian Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier once again without an aircraft.
Five fishermen were plucked from the beach on Sitkinak Island where they had gone after their vessel began taking on water on Thursday.