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Anchorage police say an Eagle River man was hiking about 3/4 of a mile off of Eagle River Road on Saturday, not far from his home, when a bear attacked him. Police say Howard Meyer, 57, told officers he saw first saw the large brown bear about 50 feet away from him. He tried to run from it, but then tripped and fell, according to Lt. Dave Parker. The bear then swatted Meyer a few times and took off. After the short attack, Parker says Meyer called APD with his cell phone. Meyer made his way down the mountain and eventually connected up with responding officers.

Homer Police say 57-year-old Dave Boone died in a construction accident on Friday, when the excavator he was operating flipped over. According to a press release, police and Homer volunteer firefighters responded to the accident off West Hill Rd. on Reber Dr.  They pronounced Boone dead at the scene. In a phone interview, his son Corey, tells Channel 2 that Boone was helping a friend clear some property to build a house.  "He was doing what he always did.  Helping people out," said Corey.  "We will always cherish the memories and adventures we shared over the years.

Tons of debris suspected to have washed into the Pacific Ocean during the March 2011 Japan tsunami, are showing up on Alaska's coastline. On Kayak Island, roughly 60 miles southeast of Cordova, hundreds of buoys, thousands of bottles, countless fuel cans, shoes, chunks of building insulation, and other household items litter the beach for miles. It's even worse on Montague Island, according to Chris Pallister, president of Gulf of Alaska Keeper, a non-profit group which cleans up beaches each spring and summer.

Anchorage police are looking for help in finding a piece of furniture which may be connected to the murder of Senior Airman Clinton Reeves. Reeves, a fuel technician at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, was reported missing after he failed to report for duty April 23. His parents arrived in Alaska to help conduct a search for him, which ended Wednesday after a body found Tuesday in Eagle River was identified as that of the 24-year-old airman....

The Anchorage Police Department says detectives are investigating human remains found Tuesday near Eklutna Lake, but have not said whether the case is related to the Feb. 1 abduction of barista Samantha Koenig. APD spokeswoman Marlene Lammers told Channel 2 she spoke with Sgt. Slawomir Markiewicz, head of the department's homicide unit, who confirmed that human remains have been found in the woods a few miles up the road leading to the lake, and a death investigation is in progress.

Roughly 120 volunteers in Kodiak showed up to search for evidence Wednesday near the communications station where two Coast Guard members were shot and killed April 13, the FBI said. Radio station KMXT said the search for a gun, clothes, boots, plastic bags or anything that looked out of place, in an area along Anton Larsen Bay Road, didn't produce any results. A post, which originally appeared on the Coast Guard Kodiak Facebook page and has since been taken down, requested 100+ volunteers to meet at 8 a.m. for the search, which was expected to be completed before noon.

Judy Davis, the mother of missing JBER Airman Clinton Reeves, confirmed to Channel 2 news Wednesday night that APD contacted her Wednesday afternoon, informing her that the body found along Golden Eagle Drive in Eagle River yesterday is Reeves. Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker confirmed that he had talked to the family about an identification being made earlier Wednesday, but would not say what that identification was. According to Parker, the Air Force plans an announcement at 8:30 a.m. with more details.

Turnagain Arm bore tides have been turning out lots of photographers this year -- just ask John Gomes. Gomes, a photographer for the Alaska Zoo, heard a rumor that a bore tide was expected in Turnagain Arm on Monday night. He jumped in his car loaded with photography gear and parked at Bird Point. When the bore tide arrived, at 6:19 p.m., he shot spectacular video of surfers riding the waves. Mountains can be seen in the background as the water, moving as fast as 10 to 15 mph, heads ashore.

Ideally when you stop for lunch, you've got time to sit back and savor your meal. Sometimes, however, you're in a hurry and you're looking for something fast -- precisely because you don't. I was in just such a situation Friday, after attempting a second visit to a South Anchorage establishment (which shall remain unnamed) that wasn't open during its posted hours. With most of my allocated time to eat already gone, I was looking for something local, tasty and quick. Uncle Joe's Pizzeria is a local chain with four locations across Anchorage; I pulled into the Tudor Road restaurant hungry and in a hurry, half-expecting to find little more than a cash register and cooler out front in the manner of many a pizza kitchen.

Now that it appears large amounts of Japan tsunami debris are washing up on Alaska's coastline, state and federal agencies are trying to figure out a plan for how to clean it all up. It's costly, labor-intensive work and this summer there's only a small slice of money to pay for beach cleanup. “It covers a very, very small portion of the state,” said Dave Gaudet, program manager for the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation, a non-profit group that doles out federal dollars for Alaska beach cleanup each spring and summer.

The mother of missing JBER Senior Airman Clinton Reeves' says her 'heart is bleeding' after learning he disappeared while looking for a car he had found online. "He was looking for a used car. And so he could be anywhere," says Judy Davis. "I know he was looking on Craigslist. And it could've been anywhere around Anchorage. " On Friday, Anchorage Police officers found Reeves' missing 2012 Dodge Avenger rental car in Mountain View.   "They found the car unlocked, and the keys in the car with his training gear.

Steam engine 557, a 69-year-old Alaska Railroad locomotive, rolled into Anchorage for the first time in many years Tuesday. “It's a pretty big moment for Alaska and the railroad,” said David Blazejewski, the Alaska Railroad's transportation superintendent. Blazejewski gathered along the Seward Highway with several other railroad fans to see the locomotive make its way from Whittier to Anchorage on a flatbed railcar, towed by a pair of diesel locomotives. Engine 557 was the last regularly-scheduled steam locomotive to run on the Alaska Railroad, before it was retired in the 1960's and sent to a museum down in Washington State.