EAGLE PASS and SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — Along the Pan-American Highway in Colombia’s Cauca Department, Juan Guillermo Sicilia Álvarez fell unconscious the morning of Jan. 4, surrounded by other migrants traveling on the transcontinental thoroughfare. He was the first migrant to die in the Americas this year, according to data compiled by the International […]
Anchorage police responded to the Strawberry Road/Wildberry Loop area in Anchorage following a suspicious person with a firearm and shots fired at 2:25 pm that resulted in the suspect being shot and killed, APD reported. As officers responded, they received additional information on the suspect and it was reported that he had pointed the […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A USARAK Soldier has died in from injuries he sustained in a single-vehicle motorcycle accident. Sgt. Timothy Scott Woods II was severely injured Saturday, Aug. 17, when the motorcycle he lost control of his motorcycle and hit a guardrail along the Glenn Highway near the […]
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. While previous studies have shown a clear connection of air pollutants with some heart and lung […]