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Thursday Jul 9 | Home - KTVA

Adult Day Care for Loved Ones With Alzheimer's

Any way you look at it, taking care of a loved one with Alzheimer's is a tough job but just imagine if that person is your husband.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Delta Junction man drowns over holiday weekend

Alaska State Troopers have recovered the body of a Delta Junction man who drowned over the Fourth of July weekend.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Looking Back in Fairbanks - July 5

July 5, 1999 - U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said Sunday that Fort Greely has the inside track to house the National Missile Defense System's silos if the proposed system ends up based in Alaska.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Alaska Journal of Commerce

Begich talks politics, goals for new job

Alaska Sen. Mark Begich said he and his colleagues in the Senate are digging into a massive 1,300-page climate and energy bill passed by the U.S. House June 26 to understand its impacts and to put their own imprint on the bill.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Juneau Empire

Alaska editorial: Missile defense: Slowdown will affect Alaska but nation will still be protected

The following editorial first appeared in the Anchorage Daily News: Alaska's three members of Congress are still trying to ward off the cuts the Obama administration has proposed in missile defense work at Alaska's Fort Greely.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Armchair Generalist

Pearl Harbor II??

In some kind of parody of Pearl Harbor, SecDef Bob Gates announced late last week that he was sending THAAD air missile defenses to Hawaii and the deployment of the Missile Defense Agency's giant golf-ball shaped floating radar to sea .

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Alaska Star

Ailing teen becomes a soldier for a day, rides in a Chinook

Lately Kayla Colyer-Platzer's reality has been consumed with her battle against Hodgkin's disease.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Guam Pacific Daily News

Military prepared for N.Korea threat

As North Korea is reportedly preparing for a long-range missile test, President Obama says the U.S. is prepared for any threat North Korea might pose.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

Free Republic

U.S. Prepares Missile Defense, Continues Shipping Interdictions

The United States has deployed missile defense equipment to the Pacific amid reports alleging that North Korea has threatened to fire a ballistic missile toward Hawaii, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

APRN - Alaska Public Radio Network

2009 June 17

Former state lawmakers Pete Kott and Vic Kohring are free to travel without asking for permission from a judge.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Juneau Empire

Photo: Soldier for a day

Nicole Vandall tries to squeeze on a small army helmet on her sister Kayla Collyer-Platzer Monday in preparation for their flight in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

Anchorage Daily News

Begich continues to fight against defense cuts

The Pentagon on Tuesday continued to reassure Sen. Mark Begich that $1.2 billion in proposed cuts to the nation's missile defense program won't pose a threat to Alaska or the rest of the country.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Kayla Collyer-Platzer grimaces as her sister Nicole Vandall tries to...

Kayla Collyer-Platzer grimaces as her sister Nicole Vandall tries to squeeze on a small army helmet in preparation for their flight in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Monday afternoon, June 15, 2009.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

Home - KTVA

Missile could hit AK in 30 minutes

Alaska's head missile defense military official, Ft. Greely Col. George Bond, says if a nuclear weapon was successfully launched it could hit Alaska, or the Lower 48, in half an hour.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

Alaska Star

Gates sees Alaskaa s defense capabilities firsthand

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Greeley's missile defense facility June 1 at the invitation of Sen.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Aero-News Network

Gates Expresses Confidence in US Missile Defenses

Wed, Jun 10, 2009 AEROTV-AEA-Crossbow-AHC525-0509a Teeny-Tiny AHRS... Huge Capabilities As we noted yesterday, you rarely see the tiny little boxes that provide the physical guidance for today's ingenious generation of glass panel cockpits.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

Kansas City Star

Gates: Russia wary of growing Iranian threat

Prospects for a U.S.-Russian partnership on a missile defense system have improved slightly as Moscow grows increasingly concerned about Iran, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said Tuesday.The defense secretary told senators that U.S. offers to put radar or data exchange centers in Russia are among the options being discussed.Gates recounted a meeting ...

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Tue Jun 09, 2009

Army Times

Gates: U.S. can fend off North Korean missile

If North Korea launches a long-range missile at the U.S., there is a "high probability" that U.S. missile defense interceptors will shoot it down, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

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CNN

Palin: Defense cuts are a a sign of we...

In her strongest public remarks to date on the matter, Sarah Palin admonished the Obama adminstration on Saturday for proposing cuts to Alaska's missile defense network, a move she said would leave her state and the rest of the country vulnerable in the case of a future attack.

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Sun Jun 07, 2009

Anchorage Daily News

Alaska Politics blog: Palin in NY: Not expanding Fort Greely missiles 'a show of weakness'

This is the place to talk about Alaska politics -- state, local, national. Public life in the Last Frontier has probably never been more interesting -- the governor is a national figure in the wake of her 2008 run for vice president, Anchorage faces a heated mayoral race, we have a new U.S. senator, and the usual hardball Alaska politics.

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