Saturday, August 23, 2014

Alaska serial killer dies, decades after murders


Alaska serial killer dies, decades after murders


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Convicted Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen, who gained the nickname of "the Butcher Baker" for abducting and hunting down women in the wilderness during the state's oil pipeline construction boom in the 1970s, has died at age 75.


Campaign Signs Can Stay Up For Now in Anchorage


Tuesday’s primary election may be in the books, but many of the political signs from some of the summer races remain. Anchorage’s Code Enforcement Chief Jack Frost says under a rewritten version of Title 21, signs of losing campaigns or candidates ...


Anchorage officials ask Assembly for more money to fight port lawsuits


With no end in sight to ongoing lawsuits over the botched Port of Anchorage makeover, city officials are asking the Anchorage Assembly for permission to spend up to another $1.5 million on lawyers and legal fees. The city hired Seyfarth Shaw LLP, an ...


Anchorage seeing more prescription medication abuse


LEE CO., GA (WALB) - If you've got a prescription for hydrocodone, you can't get more than 90-pills at a time. The new federal restriction is aimed at cutting epidemic abuse of painkillers. When The Anchorage opened 61 years ago, most of the men they ...


SUV hits bicyclist at Anchorage intersection


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police say a bicyclist struck and injured on a busy midtown street remains in critical condition. Investigators say 30-year-old Willis Clayborn on Thursday afternoon was southbound riding his bike against traffic on A ...


Anchorage launches site to track road projects, special events [Alaska Dispatch News, Anchorage :: ]


(Alaska Dispatch News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Aug. 22--In 2013, The Color Run, the Alaska Pride Fest parade and a major construction-related road closure near downtown Anchorage all happened on the same mid-June Saturday. From a city traffic engineer's ...


Anchorage Attorney Hired in Cases Against Bethel Police


The city of Bethel has hired an Anchorage law firm to represent them in recent cases involving the Bethel Police Department. Interim City Manager, Greg Moyer, confirms that the city has hired the law firm of Ingaldson, Maassen & Fitzgerald to represent the ...


Anchorage kicks off new port work; $300M needed to finish


The Municipality of Anchorage officially hit the reset button on its port project Aug. 18 with the kickoff of a weeklong design work session. Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan told a group of nearly 50 stakeholders gathered at the Port of Anchorage offices that ...


Port of Anchorage project need $300M to complete


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan estimates the city needs about $300 million in additional funding to complete the Port of Anchorage construction project. The Alaska Dispatch News reports (http://bit.ly/VCUMfy) Sullivan spoke about ...


Anchorage Conducts Change of Command Ceremony


SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Capt. Michael McKenna relieved Cmdr. Joel Stewart as commanding officer aboard San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) during a change of command ceremony, August 15. "To the Sailors and Marines of ...



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