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Blowout Could Spill 58 Million Gallons in Arctic
By not in system - AOL NewsANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The federal agency overseeing offshore drilling in Alaska says the worst-case scenario for a blowout in the Chukchi Sea lease could result in a spill of more than 58 million gallons of oil into Arctic waters. That's about a quarter of the Deepwater Horizon spill, which put 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But it's far more than Shell Oil - the major leaseholder in the area - says it could handle under its response plan. When applying for exploratory permits, Shell was required to prepare for a maximum spill of 231,000 gallons per day. The company says ...
Past House GOP Tactic Proves Useless to Democrats
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A year ago, when Republicans were in the minority on Capitol Hill, they drove Democrats crazy by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to change, delay and even kill Democratic priorities. Now that Republicans are running the House, Democrats have tried to stymie the GOP agenda by relying on the tactic, known as the motion to recommit. But they've failed on every one of their 23 attempts this year. That motion is almost always the last step just before the final vote on a bill. It gives the minority party, which has little voice and few rights in the House, a last chance to ...
Officials: Illegal Immigrant Became a Popular Cop in Alaska
By not in system - AOL NewsANCHORAGE, Alaska -- For years, the man known as Rafael Espinoza was widely respected as an exemplary police officer who was popular among his peers in Alaska's largest city. All that ended this week when authorities discovered he was really Mexican national Rafael Mora-Lopez, who was in the U.S. illegally and stole another man's identity, officials charged. Anchorage Police Department / AP Officials say Mexican national Rafael Mora-Lopez stole another man's identity and went on to become a police officer in Alaska. He was arrested Thursday and charged with passport fraud. "His ...
Drill Off Alaska Coast? Gulf Mess Renews Debate
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A year after the disastrous Gulf oil spill, the prospect of a major accident in oil's next frontier - the icy waters off Alaska's north coast - has experts even more concerned. Mark Thiessen, AP A fishing boat returns to the harbor Friday in Cordova, Alaska, from Prince William Sound, the site of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. With no roads connecting remote coastal towns, storms and fog that can ground aircraft, no deepwater ports for ships and the nearest Coast Guard station about 1,000 miles away - it would be nearly impossible to respond on the scale that was ...
Gas Prices Top $4 in Nation's Capital, 5 States
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Drivers in Washington, D.C., on Saturday joined motorists in five states who are paying more than $4 per gallon for gasoline. The average price for gas in New York could top $4 by early next week. Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois and Connecticut already have pump prices above that mark, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge. Hawaii has the highest price in the U.S. at $4.47 per gallon. Jae C. Hong, AP Gas prices are reflected on an SUV at a gas station in Los Angeles late last month. Gas prices have topped $4 per gallon in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois, ...
Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race 2011 [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsThe Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race was first run in 1973 as mushers and their teams of sled dogs raced over a thousand miles through the Alaska countryside. Lance Mackey enters the 2011 race having won the last four Iditarod competitions. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=989611&pid=989610&uts=1299764888 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Iditarod Trail ...
GOP Governors Undermine Obama's Agenda in States
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Their ranks swollen after the last election, Republican governors from Florida to Alaska are undermining President Barack Obama's agenda at every turn ahead of the Democrat's 2012 re-election campaign. Some are rejecting federal money for high-speed rail. Many are fighting the president's health care law. And several are going after the Democratic Party's bedrock constituency, pushing laws that would weaken the power of unions. Not that any Republican governor will acknowledge that this is politics at play - even if it is. "Republican governors are doing what they said they ...
Scientists Find Remains of Child Buried 11,500 Years Ago
By Traci Watson - AOL NewsScientists digging in the Alaskan wilderness have made an extraordinary find: the cremated remains of a child buried 11,500 years ago, just as the first humans were spreading out through the Americas. The partial skeleton of the child, who was roughly 3 years old, was found in the remnants of an ancient house -- in itself another virtually unprecedented discovery. Archaeologists have found plenty of hunting camps from this time period, but few formal living quarters. The new findings are "unique in many ways," Scott Elias, a University of London professor and an expert on human history in ...
Justin Tennison Found Dead; 'Deadliest Catch' Mourns Anew
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIt's the second death in as many years among the cast of "Deadliest Catch." Justin Tennison, a crew member on the F/V Time Bandit, was found dead in a hotel in Homer, Alaska, on Tuesday, TMZ reports. He would have turned 34 next month. Last February, "Deadliest Catch" star Capt. Phil Harris died after suffering a stroke. According to TMZ, Homer police found a small quantity of marijuana and several bottles of alcohol in Tennison's hotel room and suspected there had been a party the night before. In a note posted on his Facebook page, Time Bandit Capt. Andy Hillstrand wrote: Justin fished ...
Alaska Lawmaker With Mastectomy Refuses TSA Pat-Down
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsAlaska state Rep. Sharon Cissna is returning to Juneau today by car, small plane and ferry, rather than by plane as scheduled, because she refused to be patted down by security workers Sunday at the Seattle airport. Cissna, an Anchorage Democrat who was returning home after a medical treatment, underwent security screening at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where a body scan showed scars on her body from breast cancer. She had undergone a mastectomy in the past, her chief of staff, Michelle Scannell, told The Associated Press. The 68-year-old lawmaker had been through a pat-down three ...
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