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Full title: Coast Guard suspends search for five missing fishermen after crab boat sinks in the Gulf of Alaska on New Year's Eve The search for five missing crew members of a sunken fishing vessel in Alaska has been suspended after all leads had been exhausted and the chance of survival was considered, Coast Guard officials said. The Scandies Rose, a 130-foot crab fishing vessel from Dutch Harbor, sank around 10pm on Tuesday night with a total of seven crew men on board.... Rescue crews arrived to the scene around 2am Wednesday, but were embattled with headwinds up to 60pmph...

UNALASKA -- Images of eagles cover postal service vehicles and uniforms nationwide, but in the Aleutian Islands, real live eagles are landing on the heads of customers picking up mail at the Dutch Harbor post office.

Dutch Harbor Remembrance Day State Flags Lowered on June 3, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-139 State Flags Lowered for Dutch Harbor Remembrance Day World War II bombing commemorated June 2, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin has ordered state flags to be lowered to half-staff on June 3 to mark the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Dutch Harbor during World War II. “Today and every day, I encourage the residents of Dutch Harbor and all Alaskans to remember the soldiers who died or were injured defending and reclaiming our shores,” Governor Palin said. “We are forever in...

SEATTLE — Four people died Sunday off the coast of Alaska when a commercial fishing boat carrying 47 people began sinking west of the remote port town of Dutch Harbor, officials with the Coast Guard said. Forty-two people were rescued by the Coast Guard about 120 miles west of Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands. One person remained missing on Sunday afternoon, and a search was being conducted with helicopters and a C-130 plane, officials said. One of the four died in the rescue operation, they said. The authorities on Sunday had not released the names of the four people...

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