The JDHS Student Council recently returned from the Spring Conference of the Alaska Association of Student Governments (AASG) in Healy, AK.  At that conference, the students were awarded the Student Council of Excellence Award.  This is akin to winning the state championship!  The Student Council submitted a portfolio binder documenting their work as a council in the last two years.  

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Jason Collins, the NBA veteran who last week announced he was gay, is seeking a book deal, The Associated Press has learned.

A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally, the Heritage Foundation said in a report Monday, setting off a fierce dispute with fellow conservatives who attacked the study as flawed and political.

President Barack Obama took his congressional outreach effort to the green on Monday, playing a round of golf with a bipartisan trio of senators.

Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez is on his own _ at least for now.

Absent a magic potion or explosive economic growth, it was all but inevitable President Barack Obama would have to break some of his campaign promises to keep others. If there's one thing that distinguished them besides their ambition, it was their incompatibility.

Investor Warren Buffett said even though the stock market is soaring, prices appear reasonable, and stocks would be a better investment than bonds for most people.

A Utah prosecutor says he plans to decide within a day or two what charges to file against a teenager accused of punching a soccer referee who later died after slipping into a coma.

Fox is importing an anchor pairing from Canada for its new cable sports channel.

A new partnership will allow U.S. scholars and the public to get a fuller view of the trove of books and records Ernest Hemingway left at his home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous works.

It may be the first time a dead dinosaur is flying for free.

Adobe says it is moving to a subscription-based model for the software package it sells to designers, Web developers, video editors and other creative professionals.

Bank of America and MBIA, a mortgage insurer, have reached a deal to settle a dispute over faulty mortgage securities issued during the U.S. housing boom, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The state is taking public comment through May on proposed Navy SEAL training on Kodiak Island.

Hundreds of residents gathered along the Juneau waterfront to celebrate Alaska's ferries.

Biologists at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are getting a peek into what city bears do all day.

Sitka Sound herring spawn measured close to the 10-year average for spawn miles, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Reproductive rights advocates urged a judge Monday to let teenage girls buy morning-after birth control without a prescription beginning this week, saying to delay enforcement of his ruling while the government appeals would cause "certain, significant and irreparable" harm to women.

A man abducted a 6-year-old boy from his yard, brought him home to play video games, then raped him and abandoned him in a park late at night, police said.

The leader of a Roman Catholic Diocese in Massachusetts was arrested over the weekend on a drunken driving charge after an alleged hit-and-run accident in Rhode Island.