The last Saturday of July will now be known in Alaska as "Ted Stevens Day," under a new law that memorializes the nation's longest-serving Republican senator, who died last year in a plane crash.Full story
The pilot of a plane carrying former Senator Ted Stevens was apparently in control of the aircraft and trying to climb just before it slammed into a mountain slope, killing Stevens and four others, according to files released on Thursday. Full story
A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the corruption conviction of a former Alaska legislator who was videotaped taking cash from an oil-services executive. Full story
