Rescuers continue to comb through the rubble in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake that rocked the border area between Iraq and Iran on Sunday in an effort to locate additional survivors. Thousands of people near the epicenter were injured and well over 400 others perished as the buildings collapsed during the magnitude 7.3 quake […]
One man was arrested on DUI charges, and another on tampering charges after a single-vehicle motorcycle accident on Thursday evening, troopers reported. Troopers responded to a report of an accident at the intersection of Miller Loop Road and Island Lake Road south of Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula at just before 8 pm on Thursday […]
Anchorage police are investigating an early Saturday morning incident at the Carrs Aurora Village on West Northern Lights where shots were fired, APD reported. APD responded to the disturbance at 6:48 am on Saturday and conducted an investigation of the incident as one Carrs Safeway employee, suffering from noon-life-threatening injuries, was transported to the hospital. […]
The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.2 with an epicenter about 10 kilometers southeast of the town of Norcia. The shaking was also felt across a large part of the Umbria region, including the capital, Rome, 150 kilometers away. The hardest-hit areas included the towns of Amatrice and Accumoli. “Three quarters of the […]