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Alaska battles polar bears, oil wells

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The polar bear can be found in just one place in United States — Alaska — and is perhaps as much a symbol of the state as alligators are of Florida. So you might think Alaska's politicians would be pounding on doors in ...

Wal-Mart to log guns sold, then used in crimes

Wal-Mart sells only rifles and shotguns in its U.S. stores, with the exception of Alaska sites, which also sell handguns. Bloomberg urged other companies to join Wal-Mart in the initiative called the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership. “We ...

U.S. cites 'rapid changes' in Arctic

Vladimir Romanovsky of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, said the warming is affecting the permafrost in Siberia, Alaska and other regions. "This similarity of very different regions shows the changes are not local ...

States crack down on tax-free online purchases

With the exception of five states — Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon — all states assess sales tax as do many local municipalities. However, they consider it assessed whether it was collected from the taxpayer or not, as in the ...

U.S. missile interceptor hits target in test

... Missile Defense Agency spokesman Rick Lehner. The 54-foot interceptor shot out of an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast at 10:39 a.m., 17 minutes after the mock warhead was launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska ...