Category — Anchorage, Alaska

The pilot of a US Airways jet reported a bird strike and an engine problem shortly after takeoff from an upstate New York airport Thursday, forcing the plane to turn back and make an emergency landing, officials said.

The Defense Department says it will partially resume a grant program that pays for college classes and career training for military spouses, who were outraged when the program was abruptly halted last month.

Federal regulators are recalling more children’s jewelry due to high levels of the toxic metal cadmium.

California authorities say a doctor’s son who was sought for questioning in his mother’s killing has been arrested in Arizona.

The House has voted to impeach a federal judge from Louisiana. A House Judiciary Committee task force charged District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. with a long-standing pattern of corruption.

House Minority Leader John Boehner said Thursday he wants the ethics panel probe of former Rep. Eric Massa reopened to find out what Democratic leaders and their staff knew about the allegations.

Associated Press - March 11, 2010 12:44 PM ET FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - A man who was rescued by Air National Guardsmen parachuting to his remote cabin north of Denali National Park has been…

An Ohio woman has been ticketed in an accident captured in dramatic video that showed a police officer flipping over a guardrail.

A congresswoman who is the mother of Detroit ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been summoned to appear before a grand jury in Detroit.

With the bulk of the field taking their mandatory 24-hour layovers on Wednesday, Dallas Seavey seized an opportunity to make a little cash and put himself into the lead of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Thursday morning.

The State Department says that Afghan civilians continued to bear the brunt of a spike in violence in their country last year.

Police say a New York woman who claimed her Toyota Prius accelerated on its own was on her way to have its gas pedal checked at the time of the accident.

Associated Press - March 11, 2010 11:54 AM ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California salmon fishermen may not get much, if any, time on the ocean this year.

Spring has sprung and so have the wedding invitations. They’ll be joyous events, but finding the perfect gifts to bring along can be stressful during these tough economic times.

Police say a woman was severely beaten in the bathroom of a New York City bar after rejecting a patron’s advances.

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Idaho prison officials and a major private prison company for more than $155 million over high levels of inmate violence at the Idaho Correctional Center.

Minneapolis Public Schools is on lockdown for the second day after a threat was made on a social networking site.

Ever since I wrote about the bar-drug issue, more stories have been coming my way. At the gym, on the street, at the grocery store — women and a few men have been telling me they suspect they are being drugged while out at bars.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has sided with a truck dealership in a dispute with a major manufacturer of semitrailers.

The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System wants a federal judge in Pittsburgh to stop FirstEnergy’s proposed $4.7 billion takeover of the western Pennsylvania electric company.

A new flap has developed over the municipality’s handling of cash, this one involving what happened to a $1.6 million software contract at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009.

Two Anchorage senators criticized Attorney General Dan Sullivan on Wednesday for the state’s repeated intervention in a Native adoption case, but they joined the rest of the Judiciary Committee to move his nomination to the full Legislature.

Two deceased Alaskans are being added to the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame this week.

A winter storm socked Southcentral Alaska on Tuesday, dropping more than a foot of snow in some places as it barreled across the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage, then churned northeast.

Authorities were in the Alaska Peninsula village of Chignik Lake on Tuesday investigating whether a 32-year-old schoolteacher, found dead off a road leading out of town, was killed in a wolf attack.

Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expand sex offender registration nationwide, a U.S….

The campaign manager for former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays is expected to plead guilty to charges of embezzling campaign funds.

Associated Press - March 11, 2010 7:14 AM ET KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - A spokeswoman for Gov. Sean Parnell confirms he will attend a cruise ship trade show in Miami next week.

The City of Anchorage wants a report card from all its departments to find out what it’s doing well and where it’s wasting money. The budget director says it will help the city know what to cut.

The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Larry Persily to be Alaska’s federal gas pipeline coordinator Wednesday. Persily replaces the Bush administration’s Drue Pearce.