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    The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a division...
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    Koyukon) is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2020 census the population was 472, slightly up from 470 in 2010...
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    Alaska (/əˈlæskə/ ə-LASS-kə) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. It is in the Western United States region. The...
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    Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 census, it contains nearly 40...
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    investigations. In general, state police officers or highway patrol officers, known as state troopers, perform functions that do not fall within the jurisdiction...
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  • Insomnia (2002 film) (category Films set in Alaska)
    Nightmute, Alaska, teenager Kay Connell is found murdered. LAPD detectives Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart are sent to assist the local police with their...
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    world's largest zipline opens at Icy Strait Point. 2010 - Alaska State Troopers assisted Hoonah police in a 2-day manhunt for a man who was reported to be armed...
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    The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million...
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  • Alaska Airlines is a major American airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the sixth-largest airline...
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    borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located north of the Arctic Circle, it is one of the northernmost cities...
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  • Robert Hansen (category History of women in Alaska)
    as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer active in Anchorage, Alaska, between 1972 and 1983. Hansen abducted, raped and murdered at least seventeen...
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  • the detective rank is technically a designation: detectives do not actually outrank police officers although they are in charge of cases and are often...
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    occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the...
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    Russian: Шишмарёв, IPA: [ʂɨʂmɐˈrʲɵf]) is a city in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is located on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, just...
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    Territory, has its own state police force. Municipalities do not have police forces and it is left to the state forces to police all geographic areas within...
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    The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 12 pump stations...
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    Hyder is a census-designated place in Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 48 at the 2020 census, down from 87 in...
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    politician serving since 2018 as the 12th governor of Alaska. A Republican, he was a member of the Alaska Senate from 2013 to 2018. He defeated former U.S...
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    U.S. state of Alaska. Unalaska is located on Unalaska Island and neighboring Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska. The population...
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    ordinances do not permit concealed carry without a license, but these have been invalidated by the recent[when?] state preemption statute. Alaska prohibits...
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    miles (5 km), but as of 2022, an eruption does not appear to be imminent. It has been classified by the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) as "historically...
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  • some charges and rejected others. On March 1, 2006 the chief of the Alaska state police issued a letter of reprimand to Wooten, and he served a five-day...
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    The 2018 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska. In the primaries for recognized...
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    Israel Keyes (category Prisoners who died in Alaska detention)
    extradited to Alaska, where he confessed to the Koenig murder. He was represented by Rich Curtner, Federal Public Defender for Alaska. Keyes was indicted...
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  • Episode 7. The Abita Springs Town Hall plays a police station in Episode 8. In April 2020, Looking for Alaska was released in Canada on CBC Gem. The soundtrack...
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  • rapists, and avoiding a corrupt cop who learns his deadly secret. As the police arrive at Dexter's house, he is obviously in shock and, either because he...
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  • Timothy Treadwell (category Accidental deaths in Alaska)
    was a child, Treadwell decided to travel to Alaska to watch bears after a close friend persuaded him to do so. He wrote that after his first encounter...
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    authority. The term "county" is used in 48 states, while Louisiana and Alaska have functionally equivalent subdivisions called parishes and boroughs,...
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  • Into the Wild (film) (category Films set in Alaska)
    premiered during the 2007 Rome Film Fest and opened outside Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 21, 2007. It received critical acclaim and grossed $56 million...
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    Sarah Palin (category 20th-century mayors of places in Alaska)
    and reality television personality who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the 2008 Republican vice...
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