Many villages in Alaska lack police
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In the four hours it took Alaska State Troopers to arrive at the Eskimo village of Nunam Iqua, a man choked and raped his 13-year-old stepdaughter in front of three younger children. He had already beaten his wife with a shotgun and pistol-whipped a friend after an evening drinking home brew.
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The four remote Alaska villages that rejected free home heating oil from Venezuela may end up with full tanks anyhow.
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Alaska is a sleepy frontier backwater until Pearl Harbor. The specter of Japanese troops plunging down from the north frightens two governments into building what will become the Alaska Highway.
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A large earthquake rattled Alaska's seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries
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MAMONOVO, Russia -- The wooden board outside the local government building in this town of 7,000 near the Baltic Sea -- a place small enough that word travels fast and no one's business is exactly private -- might just as well advertise a community festival or a schedule for trash collection.
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BRISBANE, Australia : An Aboriginal community in northern Australia is calm and under heavy guard after the death of a young indigenous man in police custody triggered riots.
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Soldiers who reached an isolated Pacific Ocean village in Aurora province reported finding about about 100 dead. In the worst-hit town of Real, in nearby Quezon province, TV images showed bodies buried under
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Armed police stormed into this quiet village at dawn, threw up roadblocks, shot out truck tires and forced families out of their homes at gunpoint.
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The Coast Guard helicopter crews who work out of Air Station Kodiak often fly through wind and whiteouts to rescue fishermen, freighter crews and recreational boaters from Alaska&#39;s roiling waters.
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An Alaska National Guard helicopter reached a frozen Arctic village on Tuesday with technicians who hoped to repair its electrical generator, which failed Sunday during a blizzard that sent the temperature to 20 below zero.
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Description: A Coast Guard helicopter goes down in the Bering Sea, leaving six missing near the Aleutian Islands. The helicopter was transferring crew members from a freighter that had run aground, spreading
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - FBI agents combed the offices   of six Alaska state lawmakers on Thursday as part of a criminal   investigation, according to local news reports and lawmakers   not targeted in the probe.
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A lack of coordination in the relief effort for survivors of a deadly tsunami in south India has led to an excess of supplies in some villages while others lack the most basic necessities.
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BESLAN, Russia  - The killing of more than 320  children, parents and teachers during the bloody end to a  53-hour school siege left barely a family untouched in the  small Russian town of Beslan.
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By Rosemary Shinohara, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 17--After a year of politicking and hard work, Spenard residents who fought to shrink a city road project that threatened to change the character of their neighborhood are getting most of what they asked for.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and ecologically fragile wildlife refuge in the Aleutian Islands.
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DAWSON CITY, Yukon Territory - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is suggesting some Dawsonites have to be told that a fairly common practice of relieving themselves in the streets is neither proper nor healthy.  Sgt.