By Joaqlin Estus
Anchorage, AK – If sea ice is thick enough, Diomede residents have plane service for a few months a year. Otherwise a trip to Nome occurs only when space is available on a small helicopter, at a cost of $640 round trip. That will change if the Governor approves a state match for federal funds. Accounts differ about a Hooper Bay man ended up getting tasered 15 to 18 times but jurors awarded him $500,000 in damages. Training involving a simulated hijacking gets underway at the Ted Stevens Anchorage Airport today.