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  Alaska Mom Admitted to 'Inflicting Injuries' On 6-Year-Old Son After Police Discovered His Body Inside Her Home, Cops Say

  An Alaska mom faces murder charges after admitting she "inflicted injuries" that led to her son's death.

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  Alaskan Ex-Con Woman Kills Man Less Than 2 Days After Court Appointed Him Her Supervisor

  An Alaska woman has been convicted of murdering a man less than two days after he was appointed as her court supervisor as a condition of her bail.

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  Killer Alaska Mom's Eerie Google Searches Revealed: 'Ways To Kill a Human With No Proof'

  Woman sentenced to 130 years after pleading guilty in deaths of two daughters.

• Proposal to Fill Alaska’s $2.7 Billion Budget Gap Revealed

  Senate Majority unveils plan including spending cap, big cuts and Permanent Fund spending to fix the budget

• Alaska to provide provisions on marijuana consumption in retail stores

  Alaska is considering on providing guidelines regarding the consumption of marijuana in retail stores. The state will be considered the very first in the nation to allow such activities concerning cannabis.

• Cruise ship industry sues Alaska capital on entry fees

  The cruise ship industry filed a lawsuit asking a judge to stop the city of Jeanu from collecting entry fees as it claims it misspent millions of dollars to build an artificial island. The expenditure does not benefit cruise ships that passengers arrive on, the lawsuit claims.

• Alaska first-graders suspended for allegedly plotting to poison classmate

  Three first grade girls from Alaska are accused of plotting to poison their fellow student. They have been suspended from class.

• Appeals court upholds designation of critical habitat for polar bears in Alaska

  In a decision celebrated by wildlife and environment advocates, a U.S. appeals court ruled in favor of the legality of the designation of 187,000 sqaure miles as a critical habitat for polar bears in Alaska's northern coast.

• Alaska Supreme Court Rules Unconstitutional for Ban on Set Net; Fishermen Relieved and Happy

  Alaska Supreme Court sided with former governor. ACLA will find other ways to push the banning. The Alaska Supreme Court decided that the ban on set net is unconstitutional.

• Alaskan moose hunter against US government over protected lands

  The government's top lawyers are scheduled to square off against the team representing an Alaska moose hunter who has spent a small fortune fighting for what, to him, is the spirit of the Last Frontier. In court, it'll come down to questions about the legislative intent behind Alaska's federally protected lands and arguments over legal precedent.

• U.S., Alaska says will not seek additional $92 million from Exxon for Valdez spill

  U.S. and Alaska state officials announced on Wednesday they will no longer seek an additional $92 million from Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay for environmental cleanup and restoration stemming from the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill nearly three decades ago.

• District of Columbia holds hearing on marijuana sales

  The legal sale of marijuana in the U.S. capital takes a step forward on Monday as District of Columbia city council members weigh a bill legalizing pot and regulating its sale.

• Oregon, Alaska, D.C. voters to weigh legal marijuana in November

  Voters in the U.S. capital and two West Coast states will decide in the Nov. 4 elections whether to legalize marijuana, pushing closer to the mainstream a notion that was once consigned to the political fringe.

• Courts knock down gay marriage bans in Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming

  Barriers to gay marriage fell in Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming on Friday following a series of federal court actions in the latest in a series of legal victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America.

• Alaska ban on same-sex marriage ruled unconstitutional

  A U.S. federal judge on Sunday ruled that the state of Alaska's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Judge Timothy Burgess of the U.S. District Court for Alaska made the ruling after hearing oral arguments on Friday challenging the state's 16-year-old ban.

• Democrat, independent join forces to unseat Alaska governor

  Alaska's Democratic and independent candidates for governor have decided to team up as running mates in the upcoming November election in a rare deal aimed at defeating the conservative state's Republican incumbent.

• Alaska Chopper Crash: State Trooper Helicopter Demolishes During Rescue Mission, Leaving 3 Feared Dead

  An Alaska State Trooper helicopter carrying a trooper, a pilot for the agency and a rescued snowmobiler crashed in the south-central part of the state, leaving all three aboard feared dead. The trooper helicopter was on a mission to pick up a snowmobiler stranded near Larson Lake 7 miles east of Talkeetna in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

• 3 Bodies Found on Iditarod Plane Wreckage

  The bodies of two adults and a 10-year-old girl were found in the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed Monday near the route of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.