Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska-based soldier is under investigation for allegedly posting a video on his Facebook site showing Iraqi children being taunted.

JUNEAU, Alaska - Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had some harsh words for her detractors in the health care debate with a thinly veiled, March Madness-themed Facebook post in which she declared, "never retreat, instead RELOAD!" The title of the former Alaska governor's Facebook post on Sunday was "Warning: Subject to New Politically Correct Language Police Censorship." Palin then discussed her love of college basketball and compared the NCAA tournament to a "heated, competitive primary election." The former basketball player then stepped some of the rhetoric she has employed recently to describe her dislike of the Democrat-backed health overhaul.

WORCESTER, Mass. - Pat Mullane scored the tiebreaking goal 3:46 into the third period and Matt Price was awarded a goal when he was hauled down breaking toward an empty net with 12 seconds left, lifting Boston College to a 3-1 win over Alaska-Fairbanks in the NCAA tournament Saturday.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that there were no dog deaths during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The first musher from Jamaica to enter the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has reached the finish line at Nome, three days after Lance Mackey won for an unprecedented fourth consecutive time.