KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Station Valdez smallboat crew rescued a 50-year-old man from an overturned kayak near Valdez, Alaska, Sunday. The station Valdez boatcrew arrived on scene, brought the man aboard their 45-foot Response Boat-Medium and safely transported him to a nearby pier where local emergency medical services personnel were waiting. The man […]
Alaskans love fungi. This was evident one Saturday when author and mycologist Lawrence Millman offered a mushroom walk at Creamer’s Field on one of the wettest days of the yellow-leaf season. “Eighty people showed up in the rain, all eager to learn about fungi,” Millman said by email after returning to his home in Massachusetts. […]
WASHINGTON — A woman in the western U.S. state of California has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for “conspiring to export and cause the export of fighter jet engines, an unmanned aerial vehicle – commonly known as a drone – and related technical data to… China.” A U.S. Justice Department statement says 45-year-old Wenxia […]
In an incident at the area known as Skid Row, Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a robbery suspect after a brief scuffle, after that man, known only as “Africa,” attempted to grab an officer’s gun as homeless people looked on and an onlooker videotaped the shooting. That video was later uploaded to Facebook. […]