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(RNS) — A Native Alaskan midwife known for her healing love, especially toward abused women, has become the first female Orthodox Christian saint from North America after she was glorified at a meeting of bishops of the Orthodox Church in America in Chicago this week.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, has been named the city with the highest cancer rates in the state. According to the State Cancer Profiles website,
On the 2nd of June 1990, a Boeing 737–200 on its way to pick up passengers stranded in the remote Alaskan village of Unalakleet descended into terrain on final approach, colliding with a barren…
On the 2nd of June 1990, a Boeing 737–200 on its way to pick up passengers stranded in the remote Alaskan village of Unalakleet descended into terrain on final approach, colliding with a barren…
Nearly two decades after the Exxon Valdez ran around on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, the U.S. Supreme Court has taught Exxon (now ExxonMobil) and corporations everywhere a lesson: Don't pay off legal judgments. Stall, stall, stall for 19 years. Courts have held that Exxon must pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages for spilling…