Archives for January 2014

Dr. Maynard Miller, who passed away this month, also ascended Mt. Bertha and Mt. St. Elias

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It seems like no matter where you go these days, you can’t escape it: people plugged into their devices. At the gym, at the store, white cords dangling from their earlobes. Even at the community ski area, folks can’t resist having their own experience set to their own personal soundtrack. So I went to Eaglecrest to…

Monday at 3 on KTOO-FM on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts. We’ll find out about the Juneau Roller Girls upcoming bout…

Nearly 20 percent of the officers in the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear weapons corps have now been implicated in a proficiency test cheating scandal, the secretary of the Air Force said Thursday.

Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will seek the death penalty in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man charged in connection with the bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon.

A classified document that’s among the many secrets revealed by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden “shows that Canada’s electronic spy agency used information from the free Internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal,” CBC News reports.

As cities in the southern U.S. continue to recover from the ice and snow storm that brought life to a standstill in many places this week, stories are emerging about the incredible things some people did to help out others.

President Obama has decided to nominate Vice. Adm. Michael Rogers, the current head of U.S. Cyber Command, as the next director of the National Security Agency, The New York Times, Reuters and CNN are reporting.