For almost 75 years, the stern of the destroyer USS Abner Read lay somewhere below the dark surface of the Bering Sea off the Aleutian island of Kiska, where it sank after being torn off by an explosion while conducting an anti-submarine patrol. Seventy-one U.S. Navy Sailors were lost in the aftermath of the blast, […]
For the 2018-2019 academic year, the University of Alaska will reduce tuition rates by 25 percent in selected Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. As an example, the 2018-2019 lower division course tuition is currently $212 per credit, with the tuition reduction, the cost would be $159 per credit. This will apply to our occupational […]
A 950-ton bridge that was put into place on Saturday at the Florida International University in Miami collapsed on Thursday, killing at least six and injuring at least eight, reports from Miami reveal. The pedestrian bridge constructed at the university spanned eight lanes of traffic on the Tamiami Trail. When it collapsed, the vehicles beneath […]
Students who said they were deceived by President Donald Trump’s now-defunct Trump University can now get most of their money back, according to a ruling Tuesday by a federal appeals court. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a March 2017 agreement requiring Trump to pay $25 million dollars to settle […]