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Hurricane-force winds cause widespread damage in Alaska's largest city

Jan. 13, 2025 17:10 PM EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of residents across Alaska’s largest city were still without power Monday, a day after a powerful storm brought hurricane-force winds that downed power lines, damaged trees, forced more than a dozen planes to divert, and caused a pedestrian bridge over a...

Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, famed for provocative Benetton campaigns, dies at 82

Jan. 13, 2025 15:34 PM EST

MILAN (AP) — Oliviero Toscani, the photographer behind Benetton’s provocative ad campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s who later broke with the Italian knitwear brand amid controversy, died Monday at age 82. Toscani disclosed last year he had a rare disease. "It is with immense pain...

Fencing, roof of Anchorage pedestrian bridge fall in strong wind, closing highway

Jan. 12, 2025 20:03 PM EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The side fencing and roof of a pedestrian bridge fell in strong wind early Sunday, closing the main highway south of Anchorage in both directions until the debris could be cleared. No one was hurt when the structure fell onto the Seward Highway on the south...