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Baker delays 24-hour rest, eyes halfway prize

Allen Moore of Two Rivers pulls into the McGrath checkpoint on the Kuskokwim River on Wednesday morning March 10, 2010, during the 2010 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. 100310

Allen Moore of Two Rivers pulls into the McGrath checkpoint on the Kuskokwim River this morning.

While most Iditarod front-runners were in the middle of their 24-hour layovers in Takotna, Ophir or McGrath, John Baker of Kotzebue struck out alone for Cripple, the abandoned mining town where he should be able to claim the $3,000 halfway prize.

Gatt, Smyth first to Ophir

Sixth musher scratches in Rohn

Farewell Burn better than expected

Insurance deal draws increased scrutiny

Members of the Anchorage Assembly are seeking more information about the deal that sent $193,000 from the city treasury into a former mayor's life insurance trust headed by his son, current Mayor Dan Sullivan.

Wolf attack may have killed teacher in village

Authorities were in the Alaska Peninsula village of Chignik Lake on Tuesday investigating whether a 32-year-old schoolteacher, found dead off a road leading out of town, was killed in a wolf attack.

Searchers finally reach and rescue stranded hiker

Searchers this afternoon found and rescued an "extreme hiker" stranded without food for days on Meade Glacier near Haines, according to the Coast Guard.

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Cyrano the bald eagle gets a working beak

Cyrano with his new beak prosthesis: He wears it well, says Cindy Palmatier, assistant director avian care at the Bird Treatment and Learning Center in Anchorage.

It won't get him released back into the wild, but the new beak prosthesis recently attached to Cyrano the injured bald eagle will help him eat easily and make him an ideal "ambassador" for the Bird Treatment and Learning Center in Anchorage.

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