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Historic Alaska $5 bill to be auctioned in Texas

This photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows the back of a 1905 $5 bill. A Dallas auctioneer is about to offer a $5 bill presented in 1905 to Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks - Theodore Roosevelt's No. 2 - from the First National Bank of Fairbanks, Alaska.

The $5 bill displayed for decades on Charles Fairbanks IV's wall was long a treasured family heirloom from Alaska. Now, to the surprise of the grandson of a vice president, it has also become a likely treasure trove.

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CRIME

Woman's body discovered in Anchorage church parking lot

A death investigation is under way after passers-by discovered the body of a woman lying in the parking lot of a Turnagain Street church Tuesday morning. Police initially described the case as a homicide investigation.
OIL AND GAS

Oil boom brings hope, anxiety to Arctic village

Wainwright, a town of 550 people on barren bluffs of tundra 800 miles northwest of Anchorage, seems an unlikely venue for an oil boom. But the discovery of a massive undersea pool of oil just offshore in the Chukchi Sea has, for many, turned caribou dreams into lucrative oil services contracts...
LIVING

There's an art to making the delicacy akutaq

The simple ingredients are available at the tribe-owned village store: instant mashed potatoes, condensed milk, sugar and a handful of Crisco. Add as many blue and red berries (cranberries) as you can pick. This is how you make Alaska Native comfort food on the Lower Kuskokwim River.
WEATHER

Snowfall makes an early arrival, blankets Hillside

If Anchorage's first snowfall Saturday felt a little early, that's because it was. The average first snowfall in Anchorage isn't until Oct. 17, according to the National Weather Service. The earliest recorded snowfall in the city came Sept. 20, 1947.
ALASKA ACES HOCKEY

NHL lockout boosts Aces roster

The Alaska Aces opened their training camp Friday with roster additions substantially more noteworthy than usual. Scott Gomez, Nate Thompson and Joey Crabb, all of Anchorage and locked out by the NHL, are on the ice with the tea.
GOLF

Ship Creek flooding damages base golf courses

Where the 15th tee box at Eagleglen Golf Course once stood, Ship Creek now flows. The course that lost an iconic tree to wind earlier this month has now lost an area nearly the size of a football field. Two base courses are closing a month early because of flood damage.
MILITARY

Family, friends greet returning soldiers

With the simple invitation to greet their paratroopers, family and friends rushed onto the gym floor to hug and kiss their soldiers. About 300 soldiers returned home Thursday to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage after being deployed for nearly a year.
FLOODING

Coming storm lacks punch of earlier deluges

Water levels are still dropping across areas of Alaska hit hard by recent flooding as yet another storm, in a well-defined spiral of clouds, headed north from the Gulf of Alaska on Wednesday.
AFGHANISTAN

US Marine from Juneau awarded medal for valor

Staff Sgt. Alec Haralovich thought he was going to die when an enemy round struck him in the side as his patrol was attacked last fall in Afghanistan. The bullet knocked him down, but to Haralovich's surprise, he wasn't even bleeding.
WEATHER

Kenai River's neighbors brace for high water

The latest round of widespread flooding to hit Southcentral Alaska is aimed at communities along the Kenai River. On Monday, the National Weather Service extended a flood warning until 5 p.m. Thursday over an area extending from Kenai Lake to the mouth of the river.