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Case Involving an Alaska Serial Killer Has Ties to East Texas

Jen Austin — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:09:20 +0000

It's a story that has made national news. Earlier this week, accused serial killer Israel Keyes was found dead in his jail cell in Alaska after an apparent suicide.

He's accused of abducting, assualting, killing, and dismembering the body of an 18-year old barista who was kidnapped from a coffee stand last February.

In March, Keyes was arrested at the parking lot of a Cotton Patch Cafe in Lufkin after trying to use Samantha Koenig's stolen debit card.

'Big Miracle' Opens In Theaters Today [VIDEO]

Amy Austin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:45:46 +0000

In "Big Miracle," a fictionalized retelling of the 1988 effort to rescue three gray whales trapped by ice near the Arctic Circle, Drew Barrymore plays a Greenpeace activist. Her character, Rachel, an animal-loving volunteer, is racing to save a family of gray whales from rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. It is her first big-screen acting project in two years.

'Rock Vomit' Causing Problems in Alaska [VIDEOS]

Marcie Pink — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:20:59 +0000

By the looks of it, you'd think a band of Alaskan creatures threw a rockin' party and had a bit too much to drink.

That's because an invasive species, nicknamed "rock vomit," has infiltrated the state, covering plants, rocks, seashells, boats and any other hard surface with a substance eerily similar to puke.