Becky Drury, who was said to have shielded a student during a deadly shooting in Bend, refuted the account. “The truth is I was shot before I had any chance to act.”
As a mountaineer and extreme runner, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is thoroughly Alaskan, and thanks to Republican infighting and the state’s deep troubles, he just might win next month.
“I want to get back to the Alaska that I grew up with and loved,” said Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat who may well become the state’s next governor.
The father of two girls at Silver Rail Elementary School, who confronted the shooter, was grateful for the support of the community and has asked for privacy.
An aerial view showing a vehicle belonging to a bystander who fatally shot the suspect, in a cordoned-off area at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., on Friday.
When social media posts denouncing the police surfaced, they were supposed to harm a socialist’s re-election. But the democratic socialists of Portland, and other cities, are showing their strength.
Republicans are playing defense in some of the most conservative parts of the country, but an unpopular Democratic governor has them hopeful in a progressive West Coast state.
In the battle for an Alaska Senate seat and the governor’s mansion, the oil-dependent state’s declining fisheries loom large, but no one wants to look at the biggest culprit, climate change.
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