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Associated Press - November 20, 2009 8:04 PM ET
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says the U.S. Postal Service has agreed to resume a program that lets volunteers to respond to letters sent to Santa in care of the North Pole, Alaska, post office. The program was suspended over privacy concerns. Calls to the Postal Service were not immediately returned.
NEW YORK (AP) - Sarah Palin's publisher says her book "Going Rogue" sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. HarperCollins says print run already has been increased from 1.5 million copies to 2.5 million in the book's first week on the market.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - BP is donating $1 million to University of Alaska Fairbanks to catalog the papers from Ted Stevens' four-decade political career. Stevens sent more than 4,500 boxes of documents to the university's library. Without the BP grant, the Rasmuson Library told The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner it would have taken decades to sort.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The U.S. Marshals in Alaska have a new bomb-sniffing dog. The yellow lab named MacDuff can detect numerous types of explosives and firearms, even shell casings. KTUU reports when MacDuff is not on duty in Anchorage he's Mac the family pet of Deputy U.S. Marshal Jimmy Johnson.
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