Letters to Santa Flood Alaskan Town
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By RACHEL D'ORO ANCHORAGE, Alaska - It's a name that needs no address. Everyone one knows Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. So letters sent to the roly-poly icon find their way to the small town of North Pole deep in Alaska's interior, including those simply addressed to Santa.
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By Sandra Stokley, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Dec.
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The gifts have been unwrapped and thank you notes are forthcoming. Stockings have been removed from fireplace mantels and tucked back into the attic. Santa has come and gone and left for a vacation in Bermuda.
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By Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 15--A plan to create a Bristol Bay game refuge in honor of former Gov.
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By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec.
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For Christmas, nearly a dozen readers sent me the same gift, an article about goings on in the Southwest: "Illegal immigrants packing up and leaving Arizona."
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By Rob Tucker, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 5--The pre-Christmas windstorm socked Pierce County with more than $16 million in public and private damage, according to a county disaster report.
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Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook nearby Prince William Sound.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec.
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By Michael P. Mayko, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Dec.
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By Allen Houston, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 16--Amid the holiday cards and junk mail, residents of Ash Creek Mobile Home Park got one letter they never wanted to receive.
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Description: Conditions in the Bering Sea make any rescue attempt challenging for the Coast Guard in Alaska, which has responded to the grounded freighter near the Aleutian Islands.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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Sarasota county wanted to use e-mail to let people know the area was unharmed by the summer's hurricanes. People were quick to point out a word for such activity. By Daniel Terdiman.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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By Cinthia Ritchie, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 26--The cables were the problem.   Or wait! Maybe it was the RAM. Or the processors. Or ...