11+ hour, 14+ min ago  (530+ words) A telecommunication company facing a lawsuit over a man's death during a 911 outage is alleging the man caused or contributed to his own death " and is calling for the case to be thrown out. Dean Switzer, 55, died of a heart…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (783+ words) ANCHORAGE, Alaska " Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above the Arctic Circle, to feast on whale carcasses left behind by hunters and to wait for the…...