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  • The Trending Channel
  • Inmates at the Russell County, Alabama, jail have something new to puff.
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  • Click play to watch the report from Action News' John Rawlins
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  • An air taxi crashed and was engulfed in flames at a small Alaska airport, killing all 10 people aboard.
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  • Police and emergency personnel stand near the remains of a fixed-wing aircraft that was engulfed in flames Sunday July 7, 2013 at the Soldotna Airport in Soldotna, Alaska. No survivors were located and it is unknown how many people were on board. (AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, Rashah McChesney)
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  • Police and emergency personnel stand near the remains of a fixed-wing aircraft that was engulfed in flames Sunday July 7, 2013 at the Soldotna Airport in Soldotna, Alaska. No survivors were located and it is unknown how many people were on board. (AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, Rashah McChesney)
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  • Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her former astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, are in Alaska to lobby for expanded background checks for gun sales.
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alaska, rep. gabrielle giffords, national/world
  • A heat wave hitting Alaska may not rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the days of hot weather feel like a stifling oven - or a tropical paradise.
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alaska, heat wave, national/world
  • The Trending Channel
  • Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.
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alaska, dumb criminals, trending
  • City bears!
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alaska, animals, wildlife preservation, bizarre bazaar
  • Action News
  • A 9-year-old Alaska boy fell into a deep glacier crevasse and state troopers say he likely did not survive.
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alaska, national/world
  • Powered by -- beer!
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alaska, alcohol, beer, bizarre bazaar
  • Beer
  • The Alaskan Brewing Co. is going green, but instead of looking to solar and wind energy, it has turned to a very familiar source: beer.
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beer, alaska, energy, national/world
  • A strong earthquake shook southeastern Alaska early Thursday, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no early reports of any damage, officials said.
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earthquake, alaska, national/world
  • A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for parts of the Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled.
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alaska, canada, earthquake, national/world
  • Blind and alone in Alaska winter temperatures, a lost 8-year-old dog wasn't given much of a chance to make it home.
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alaska, pets, dogs, national/world
  • How cold is it in North Pole, Alaska?
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  • Investigators say a man found dead of an apparent suicide in an Alaska jail was not only suspected of killing an Anchorage barista but may be linked to seven other possible slayings around the country.
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  • Action News
  • Human remains found ravaged by one or more brown bears on a southeast Alaska island are likely from a Sitka man overdue on a boating trip, Sitka police said Monday.
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animal attacks, alaska, national/world
  • Action News
  • The main terminal of Anchorage's largest airport was evacuated Sunday after a man made comments about a bomb, which he later said were meant to be taken as a joke.
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alaska, airline security, bomb scare, national/world
  • There's been no quick solution to a computer failure that cut off Alaska Airlines' ability to put passengers on planes, creating long lines at many West Coast airports.
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alaska, air travel, national/world
  • Police: Man with tattooed eye shot at officers
  • The man is charged with shooting and wounding an Anchorage Police Department officer during a burglary investigation.
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alaska, shooting, police, local/state
  • It's not quite as rare as Big Foot.
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alaska, animals
  • Scott Robb can make slew of slaw -- thanks to his world record cabbage.
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alaska, food, bizarre bazaar
  • Police in North Pole, Alaska, didn't need Rudolph's help.
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alaska, accident, automobiles, alcohol, beer, DUI, dumb criminals, police, bizarre bazaar
  • The mayor of a sleepy Alaska town is feline fine.
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alaska, election, animals
  • The Buzz
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  • An Alaska woman who shaved her head for charity three months ago will represent the state in the Miss America Pageant next year.
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alaska, miss america, entertainment
  • An Alaska man had to be rescued after he climbed a tree for exercise but got stuck upside down by one leg.
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alaska, bizarre bazaar
  • It turns out, there is no such thing as a free beer, at least on Era Alaska flights.
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alaska, beer, alcohol, air travel, bizarre bazaar
  • Get a pizza for half off; Apple updates its Mac Book and iOS products; Alaska Airlines arrives in Philadelphia.
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6at4, stock market, economy, seattle, alaska, food, online saving, apple, business/finance
  • Click for the latest on Apple, Domino's and Alaska Airlines
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  • A Pennsylvania man and his son - convicted of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers - were sentenced.this weekend.
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pennsylvania, alaska, sarah palin, crime
  • Action News
  • Police in Alaska say two girls playing in the street were injured when they were stomped by a moose.
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alaska, national/world
  • Two women face possible charges after authorities say a text message seeking the illegal purchase of alcohol was errantly sent to an Alaska State Trooper.
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  • Action News
  • Seismologists say an earthquake that struck in southern Alaska near Anchorage was widely felt in the city and other communities.
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  • Four groups including an Alaska Native village are suing the National Marine Fisheries Service, claiming the federal agency's permit for oil exploration will hurt endangered beluga whales in Cook Inlet.
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alaska, wildlife preservation, animals
  • Dozens of fly swatters bearing logos of collegiate and professional sports teams have been washing up on the beaches of an Alaska island.
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alaska, environment, bizarre bazaar
  • Bristol Palin says children do better with a mother and father.
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bristol palin, children, alaska, entertainment
  • An Army soldier has been acquitted of manslaughter and homicide charges in the death of a friend during a drunken game of Russian roulette.
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  • Jurors were asked Wednesday to decide who is responsible for the death of an Army sergeant who was killed in a drunken game of Russian roulette.
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  • The man suspected of kidnapping an 18-year-old Anchorage barista killed her less than a day after her abduction and then used her cell phone and debit card to demand and obtain ransom money, a federal prosecutor said.
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alaska, missing person, national/world
  • Action News
  • FBI agents descended on an island off Alaska after two Coast Guard members were found shot to death at work in what officials said appeared to be a double homicide.
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  • Action News
  • Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot Thursday at a communications station on an island off Alaska, officials said.
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  • An Alaska wildlife center that takes in orphaned and injured animals is missing one of its larger residents.
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alaska, animals, national/world
  • Fire
  • A fire marshal in Alaska's capital city says a 7-year-old boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months.
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alaska, fire, arson, national/world
  • A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city.
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alaska, snow, severe weather, national/world
  • A U.S. Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire into a Japanese ghost ship that had been drifting since the last year's tsunami, sinking the vessel in the Gulf of Alaska and eliminating the hazard it posed to shipping and the coastline.
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alaska, japan, national/world
  • The Miss Alaska pageant requires contestants to perform a public service project. Under Debbe Ebben's silver tiara is evidence of hers.
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alaska, cancer, entertainment
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she saw it coming, even before the public scolding last weekend at Alaska's Iditarod dog sled race
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u.s. senate, alaska, washington, d.c., national/world
  • In the final months before she resigned as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin displayed growing frustration over deteriorating relationships with state lawmakers.
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alaska, sarah palin, inside politics