On Thursday afternoon, a lone gunman armed with a shotgun and clad in a black hooded sweater, skater sneakers, and jeans opened fire on Seattle’s Pacific University campus killing one 19-year-old man and wounding two others. The gunman was not a student at the University. When the gunman, identified as 26-year-old Aaron R. Ybarra, stopped […]
2,500 persons seeking asylum, most from North Africa, were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea since Thursday, including 157 children according to the Italian government. The unusually large amount of rescues in the last 24-hours brings the total of asylum seekers to over 62,000 for the first five months of 2014, this total is more than the […]
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has licensed several patents for the use of the Pinbone Wizard, a fish bone removal machine, to a Juneau-based company. “It’s a pretty cool machine,” said Mike Bell, owner and president of Freeman-Bell, the Juneau machine shop that bought the license. “Whoeverdeveloped this is awesome.” The Pinbone Wizard is the […]
U.S. Senator Mark Begich Wednesday joined a group of senators urging 18 state governors to put aside their political differences and expand Medicaid in their states in order to bring access to life-saving health care and preventive health services to millions of Americans. “In Alaska, Governor Parnell’s refusal to expand Medicaid means denying health insurance to […]