Update News: Monday, September 3, 2012
In Monday’s news:
- Shell’s drilling rig Noble Discoverer arrives in the Chukchi Sea amid uncertain weather;
- Telecommunication problems in Wales trouble residents, organizations for more than a month;
- Coast Guard suspends search for crewmen missing after fishing vessel sinks near Kodiak Island;
- Strong Yukon River chum salmon runs sees a single pulse of over 200,000 fish two weeks ago;
- 66-year-old pilot George Vonderheide killed in single-engine plane crash near Homer;
- Sitka’s “Brewery Bandit,” Carl Liberty, charged with burglary and theft from Baranof Island Brewery.
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