An Anchorage man has been convicted of robbing his mother at gunpoint because she didn’t give him money to help pay a parking ticket.

During his brief stop in Alaska, President Obama met privately with relatives of Marine Cpl. Gregory Fleury, who was killed last month in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

The Denali gas pipeline project proposes to build the largest gas treatment plant in the world on Alaska’s North Slope, according to a report submitted to state legislators.

I am always willing to admit when I make a mistake. I recently submitted an opinion piece accusing the University of Alaska Southeast of neglecting Veteran’s Day. On the day the piece was published (Nov. 10), I was pleasantly surprised to receive a phone call from the UAS Chancellor’s Office.

Representative Don Young does not want improved health care for Alaskans. H.R. 3962, also known as the Affordable Health Care for America Act, passed the House without his support, which indicates that he represents the only entities benefiting from the status quo: health care corporations and drug companies, instead of working Alaskans and their families that are trying to afford ever-increasing health care costs. He doesn’t realize that many Alaskans who actually live here incur tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills to go south for emergency surgery or extended treatments.

A collection of news items humorous, outrageous, sickening, and bizarre – and really, none of them made up. …

KABUL, Afghanistan – The big story here, underreported so far, is the emergence of coordinated American and Afghan efforts to bring Taliban leaders and fighters in from the cold.

For American Muslims, the Fort Hood massacre is a crisis. There are open calls for a blanket investigation of Muslims in the military and even demands for a ban on Muslims serving in the armed forces.

Juneau resident Virginia Beaumont Post died Nov. 3, 2009, in Bartlett Hospital in Juneau. She was 62.

Juneau resident Theodore John Smith Sr. died of natural causes Nov. 8, 2009, in Juneau. He was 87.