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Mary Anne Feeney and Jonathan Brady have portraits made a few hours before their wedding ceremony on Saturday morning, May 18, 2013. Rhae Anne Etheredge makes the photos at right. "You just got to roll with it," Feeney said of the snow on her spring wedding day. "It's Alaska." Snow fell steadily in the Anchorage area and Eagle River on Friday evening and Saturday morning, setting new daily records for snowfall on both days.

Late-May snow sets multiple records for Anchorage

The unseasonable snowfall Friday and Saturday has set a slew of new records in Anchorage, the National Weather Service says.

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Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Witnesses said the car drove into a crowd at the parade and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known.

Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition

Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did... 3 hours ago

Opinion

Jim Morin / Miami Herald (May 16, 2013)

Cartoons for the week of 5/12/13

Editorial cartoons from newspapers across the country.

Sports

At center, Dimond's Malia Lyken and Service's Gen Carter sprint in the 100-meter race. The Cook Inlet Conference Track and Field Championships concluded at Dimond High School on Saturday, May 11, 2013.

Kodiak prevents Anchorage sweep at state track

Dimond and Grace Christian took the girls team titles and Kodiak and ACS topped the boys Saturday at the state high school track and field championships...

Entertainment

A western sandpiper feeds along the surf line on the beach at Anchor Point during the Homer Shore Bird Festival on Sunday, May 12, 2013.

Shorebirds galore at annual Homer festival

It's May and birds are on the move all over the planet. In Alaska, we are witness to some of Earth's longest avian migrations -- the Arctic terns nest...

Living

As sea ice retreats and ringed seal become harder to reach, more polar bears are feeding on bowhead whale bone piles left from successful subsistence hunts. This photo was taken along the Beaufort Sea coastline of Alaska. (Photo by Susanne Miller, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Hometown U: Nitrogen is a key to unlocking nature's back stories

High school chemistry class was probably the last time you heard anyone mention the periodic table of elements, which lists 118 building blocks for...

Business

In this April 24, 2013 photo, retired logger Jim Ford stands in his shop in Grants Pass, Ore. While Ford thinks logging can still be a major part of the economy in the rural West, jobs are half what they were 20 years ago, and mills continue to close. The region continues to look for new sources of jobs and government revenues.

Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the...

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