Sarah Palin

Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded a hard-fought Senate campaign in the Republican primary Tuesday evening, clearing the way for challenger Joe Miller to face Democrat Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams for the seat held by Alaska's senior U.S. senator. Murkowski conceded during a press conference Tuesday evening, saying she could not envision a scenario in which she could secure the Republican Senate nomination. “And for that reason, and for the good of the State of Alaska, which is -- this is what it's all about, it's for the good of the State of Alaska -- I am now conceding the race for the Republican nomination,” Murkowski said.

by The Associated Press Sunday, August 1, 2010 WASHINGTON -- Former Gov. Sarah Palin says the best-selling author who moved into the house next door to her family while writing a book about her needs to get a life. Palin tells "Fox News Sunday" that she and he family now avoid their front yard and other areas of their lakeside home in Wasilla, because of their new neighbor -- author Joe McGinniss. McGinniss moved to Wasilla last spring while working on a book about Palin, the former governor and vice presidential candidate who is a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.

by Becky Bohrer The Associated Press Sunday, July 25, 2010 JUNEAU, Alaska -- Perhaps Sean Parnell's greatest accomplishment so far as governor is that he's not Sarah Palin. In the year since inheriting the job when Palin resigned, Parnell has quietly gone about restoring a sense of calm that many Alaskans craved after Palin's tumultuous term. Barring any major missteps, that alone may be enough to help him carry next month's GOP primary and win the office he wasn't expecting to hold.

A few tourism businesses in Southcentral Alaska are voicing concerns over the production company in charge of former Gov. Sarah Palin's reality TV show set to air on TLC. Some business owners say they bent over backwards to help producers for the show, only to feel short-changed afterward. Five businesses are accusing the show's producers of things like lack of communication, last-minute cancellations and making promises they did not keep. Even after Palin's vice-presidential run in the 2008 election, media outlets have been enamored with Palin.

by Holly Ramer The Associated Press Monday, July 19, 2010 CONCORD, N.H. -- Sarah Palin has endorsed New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte's Senate campaign in a Facebook post in which she incorrectly calls Alaska's Kodiak Island America's largest island. The island of Hawaii is about 440 square miles larger than Kodiak, where Palin and her family were headed Monday. Palin also strayed a bit from the facts in praising Ayotte for having "won" a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

by Garance Burke The Associated Press Friday, June 25, 2010 TURLOCK, Calif. -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has criticized California Attorney General Jerry Brown over his investigation into her Friday speaking visit to a California university. The 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate headlined the 50th anniversary gala at California State University, Stanislaus Friday night. She spoke before more than 360 donors, who paid $500 per ticket to attend the black-tie fundraiser in the school's cafeteria.

by Christine Kim Saturday, June 26, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Hundreds of people got together to celebrate Korea-Alaska Friendship Day at a Saturday festival in Anchorage. Gov. Sean Parnell, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young attended the third annual festival, held at the Sears Mall, to show their support. Many local churches set up booths to serve Korean food and display traditional Korean ornaments. There are more than 7,000 Koreans living in Alaska.

After 15 months of investigation, a state investigator has found that former Gov. Sarah Palin's legal defense fund was illegal. Tim Petumenos, who investigated Palin's defense fund for the state ethics board, said Thursday that the fund violated state law -- requiring the return of money given to the fund by several thousand donors. Petumenos says the use of the word "official" on the fund's website suggested Palin endorsed it as governor. He also said that fund trustee Kristan Cole should never have been involved with it, because she's a public official.

by Mark Thiessen The Associated Press Thursday, May 27, 2010 WASILLA, Alaska -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is making good on a threat to build a fence around her Wasilla home to keep her new neighbor -- an author who is writing a book about her -- from peering in. Work on the fence continued Thursday, three days after Palin took to Facebook to "welcome" neighbor Joe McGinniss and say she'd begin building a "tall fence tomorrow....

by Bill Poovey The Associated Press Friday, April 30, 2010 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The 22-year-old son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker has been convicted on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008. The federal court jury reached its verdict Friday against David Kernell after four days of deliberation. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to a computer, but was acquitted on a charge of wire fraud.