ALASKA SNOW

Alaska Dispatch (blog)
Alaska News Nightly: August 24, 2010
Alaska Public Radio Network
Another $2.5 million will buy runway snow removal equipment for numerous airports including Bethel, Cold Bay, False Pass, Kodiak, Seward and Tuluksak.
FAA awards $59 million to projects in Alaska airportsChannel 6 News Online
FAA administrator visits Alaska, announces grantsKTUU

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Alaska Dispatch (blog)
FAA awards $59 million to projects in Alaska airports
Channel 6 News Online
... Deadhorse, the North Slope Borough, and Soldotna and will fund aviation planning efforts and snow removal equipment for airports in rural Alaska. ...
FAA administrator visits Alaska, announces grantsKTUU

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FAA administrator visits Alaska, announces grants
KTUU
... Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport; fund overall aviation planning efforts and help with snow removal equipment for airports in rural Alaska. ...

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Fairbanks woman who stole identities ordered to pay $18000 in restitution
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Hunter, 51, obtained nursing licenses in Alaska using the names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and credentials of two nurses who live in New York ...
Appeals Court: Fake Nurse Must Repay Wages EarnedMetropolitan News-Enterprise
U.S. v. HUNTERLeagle.com

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The start of Whale Watching Season, in Maui, Starts off Within November
lonad News
Humpbacks migrate from their Alaskan feeding grounds every year to be able to give birth, raise the young whales, mate, and return to Alaska during April. ...

KCAW
Michelle Putz promises to "put ideas into action"
KCAW
It's the one in the 4 th of July Parade painted as a snow leopard. Putz was born outside of Chicago, and attended Ohio State University, where she earned a ...

Babble (blog)
Levi Johnston: Ready To Ask For Handouts
Babble (blog)
Warning to the people of Alaska: Levi Johnston is now officially authorized to ask everyone for money. The baby-daddy/fame-chaser/wannabe politician ...

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Appeals Court: Fake Nurse Must Repay Wages Earned
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Upholding a restitution order by a federal judge in Fairbanks, Alaska, the three-judge panel said Becky Nadine Hunter had to repay former employers more ...
Fairbanks woman who stole identities ordered to pay $18000 in restitutionFairbanks Daily News-Miner
U.S. v. HUNTERLeagle.com

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Summer Blast at Long Last
NBC Bay Area
Given the heat around the Bay Area next few days -- maybe these clips of snow/glacier capped mountains in Alaska will cool your online senses. ...

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Federal aid can't dim anti-government rancor
Omaha World-Herald
PALMER, Alaska — Backed by a blue row of saw-toothed mountain peaks, Republican state lawmaker Carl Gatto finds himself on a fine roll. ...

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U.S. v. HUNTER
Leagle.com
Hunter moved to Alaska in 1998, where she stole the identity of a registered nurse and used it to obtain a nursing license. She used the fake license, ...

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Climber McDonnell to be honored posthumously
Anchorage Daily News
McDonnell, who worked in Alaska as an engineer and was well known in both the climbing and Irish music worlds, will be honored by the mountaineer town of ...

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PR-inside.com (press release)
Rescuers Become Victims On Alaskan Glacier
PR-inside.com (press release)
With four passengers on board, pilot Don Erbey, 49, crashed landed on an Alaskan glacier, having battled strong winds, heavy clouds and snow. ...

Krolicki, Vucanovich recall near-death experiences in air crashes
Nevada Appeal
FALLON — As investigators attempt to uncover the causes of the recent single-engine aircraft disaster in Alaska that killed former Sen. ...

Race takes area biker on quite a ride
Buffalo News
“We tried to keep his spirits up and keep him motivated,” Snow said. Eleven days after Parry pulled out of Key West, he arrived at the end, Homer, Alaska, ...

Nature is far from silent on many occasions
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Ice jumbles and rumbles downstream during breakup on a small river in Interior Alaska. Miki Collins photo LAKE MINCHUMINA — As ...

Sometimes you just gotta get away, like when it's hot
Dallas Morning News
We blocked off a month and were prepared to find our first snow in Alaska. Four days later in Estes Park, Colo., we found a snow bank and had the world's ...

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Seattle climber aims to set speed record on Everest, and honor fallen wife
Seattle Times
ON THE SOFT snow above Everest Base Camp at 17400 feet, Chad Kellogg is trudging uphill in trail-running shoes. Attempting to reach the summit of the ...

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WILL LESCHPER: Big waters of Alaska provide thrills, chills on halibut excursion
San Angelo Standard Times
Each wandering glance elicits another image fit for a postcard, including snow-capped volcanoes looming on the broad horizon, swarms of eye-catching bald ...

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Inuit villages sue to stop seismic tests for oil, gas
Seattle Times
Millions of birds of many species nest nearby in great concentrations, including ivory gulls, phalaropes and snow geese. Tourists visit to see the birds, ...

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