It s not clear what kind of bear attacked the U.S. Army Alaska soldiers Tuesday afternoon, but Capt. Derek DeGraaf, with the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, said it was a sow with one or two cubs.
As the filing deadline approached Friday to run in the special election to fill Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, the field got crowded, with current and former lawmakers, former Gov. Sarah Palin and others jumping in.
The crimes took place between 2014 and 2016, and involved a local business owner giving nearly $30,000 in kickbacks to a Veterans Affairs employee who then doled out preferential contracts.
Soldiers and their families waited in a long line that wrapped around the Wilderness Inn Dining Facility on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for a hearty Thanksgiving meal Tuesday.
Zara Rutherford, who turned 19 in July and is from Belgium, has roughly 270 total flight hours since obtaining her private pilot’s license in 2020. About 120 of those hours have been racked up on this journey. She landed in Nome on Friday, which marks the trip’s halfway point.