By MEGAN HOLLAND, Anchorage Daily News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- If Anchorage continues killing at the current pace, the city may set a record for dead bears this year thanks to unplanned run-ins with humans.

As of Wednesday, 17 bears had been killed in Anchorage, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Fifteen were black bears; two were brown.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Prisoners are wiping down doorknobs with bleach. Guards are wearing plastic gloves whenever they touch anything inside a cell. And inmates are telling other inmates to go see a doctor when a rash shows up on their skin.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A man accused of chopping up a friend and putting the body parts in his grandmother's freezer last year is now charged with two-dozen counts of sexual assault against a fellow jail prisoner.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Eagle River High School students stood out in a frigid minus-11 degrees Monday morning for a quarter of an hour after a chemistry lab experiment set off the building's fire alarm and they evacuated without coats, hats or gloves. Some wore only their gym clothes.