Q: What is V-J Day? A: V-J Day, or Victory Over Japan Day, is the day Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 15, 1945. Japan’s unconditional surrender effectively ended World War Two. Japan’s surrender, which formally occurred aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, came months after Nazi Germany […]
For the second time this week, the U.S. Supreme Court has tossed out a lower court injunction and cleared the way for the federal government to execute an inmate. In a series of orders early Thursday, the court vacated the injunction that stopped Wednesday’s planned execution of Wesley Ira Purkey. The lower court judge […]
After receiving a tip from Nome-based AST, the State-Wide Drug Enforcement Unit’s Anchorage Airport Interdiction Team (AAIT) made contact with two Nome-bound travelers troopers said were suspected of transporting drugs to that city on Thursday. AST said on Monday that after that contact with 33-year-old Frederick Larsen and 29-year-old Kaitlyn Priester, both of Nome, […]
Washington, DC —Sunday the Army Corp of Engineers announced its decision not to grant the easement to the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing the Missouri immediately above the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and to study alternate routes. “Our prayers have been answered. This isn’t over, but it is enormously good news,” praised NCAI President Brian Cladoosby. […]