The U.S. Postal Service has gone Scrooge this year by shutting down a program in North Pole, Alaska where volunteers responded to letters sent to Santa Claus. The program answered thousands upon thousands of letters every year.
The program will go on elsewhere in the U.S., but privacy concerns have led to more restrictions, and those [...]

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A magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattled buildings in Anchorage on Wednesday morning.
The earthquake occurred at 10:19am local time (2:19pm EDT)  Wednesday and was centered 31 miles west of Anchorage and 15 miles northeast of the village of Tyonek.
The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center says the quake did not generate a tsunami.
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As we reported several months ago, Sarah Palin has finally resigned as the Governor of Alaska.
In her last public address as Governor, Palin said she had done what she set out to do, then officially stepped down from office on Sunday, handing over the reigns to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.
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A few select sources are indicating that Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation as Governor of Alaska may have actually been due to the fact that an embezzlement scandal is about to surface involving various construction projects in the Governor’s home town of Wasilla, Alaska…with a Federal indictment looming.
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Sarah Palin said on Friday that she will resign as Governor of Alaska at the end of July, prompting many to wonder if she will focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the unexpected announcement from her home in suburban Wasilla on Friday [...]

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