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JUNEAU -- Lauri Waterman heard her killer coming. Lying in bed alone in her Craig home, the 48-year-old mother heard the footsteps coming up the stairs long after midnight. Her husband and daughter were out of town for the weekend, and she had carefully locked the doors, but now she sensed somebody outside her bedroom. Waterman didn't call the police or confront the intruder. She got up and closed the bedroom door. In a Juneau courtroom Wednesday, Ketchikan District Attorney Stephen West offered jurors a riveting account of the night Waterman died, based largely on the confessions of her killers....

A $150,000 prize has been awarded to the “Water Gandhi of India” for his wildly successful work that turns abandoned, impoverished “dust bowls” into lush villages bustling with life again using an ancient method of rainwater harvesting. For teaching thousands of villagers in India’s most arid region how to build earthen dams to catch the monsoon rains and revitalize their land, Rajendra Singh was honored Friday with the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize. 30 years ago, Singh went to the poverty-stricken state of Rajasthan with the aim of setting up health clinics. He was told by villagers, however, that their greatest...

We Support Our Troops!  For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT:  Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. Waldo Dean Waterman (1894-1976) was the first to create a functional flying car.  He was an airplane engineer with a flair for creative design. Figuring that most people couldn’t afford both an airplane and a car, and believing that the car was a necessity of modern life, Waterman...