Searchers retrieved one body from the massive, deadly Sitka mudslide and two remain missing on Thursday as searchers continue to work through the debris. 25-year-old Ulises Diaz and 26-year-old Elmer Diaz, two men working on a house in the path of the slide, and a city building inspector, 61-year-old William Stortz, remain missing. Ulises, and his […]
A Wasilla man was jailed after an incident on Caribou Road in Wasilla on Friday night that garnered him several assault charges troopers reported. The trooper dispatch that officers responded to a disturbance call at a Caribou Road residence at 8:25 pm on Friday night. When they arrived, the conducted an investigation at the scene […]
Although only a handful of bodies have been retrieved from the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, as many as 700 are believed to have perished in the weekend sinking of a migrant ship carrying nationals from Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Eritrea. The vessel is believed to have capsized because of migrants aboard the vessel rushing […]
The death toll from the crash of a passenger plane in Taiwan rose to 31 Thursday, as search and rescue operations continued for 12 people still missing. Internet video showed the twin-engine TransAsia plane moments after takeoff from Taipei’s Songshan airport on Wednesday, bound for Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands. The plane’s left wing, perpendicular to […]