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Best News Photos -- 2007 |
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AP Photos/Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester |
Marc Lester of the Anchorage Daily News wins News Photo of the Year and $200 for this shot of Anchorage firefighters battling a blaze at a condo complex in downtown Anchorage, Tuesday, June 5. A plumber's propane torch set off a fire that sent a billowing cloud of smoke visible throughout much of the Anchorage basin. |
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More great photos from 2007 . . . |
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AP Photo/The Juneau Empire, Brian Wallace |
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His Grace Bishop Nikolai, Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, blesses the congregation Sunday, June 24, at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Juneau. Bishop Nikoli was in Juneau to celebrate the 113th anniversary of the consecration of the historic church, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Assisting the Bishop with his vestments, left, sub-decon Nicholas Kasheranof and Hierodeacon Panteleimon. |
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A fire fighting air tanker drops water onto the southwest flank of the Caribou Hills fire, 15 miles east of Ninilchik, Friday, June 22. |
 AP Photo/Homer Tribune, Layton Ehmke |
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Forest Service Interpreter Larry Rickards watches a black bear walk past the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau, Thursday, Sept. 6. |
AP Photo /David J. Sheakley
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AP Photo/Al Grillo |
A group of people stand by Snowzilla as cars try to maneuver around the vehicles and people stopping to look at the 22-foot snowman in Anchorage, Friday, Jan. 5. Snowzilla was a smash hit with shutterbugs, but some neighbors of the two-story-high snowman said they were fed up with the hordes of viewers clogging the street. |
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Whaling activists cross a street in downtown Anchorage as they encouraged an end to commercial whaling at the outset of the International Whaling Commission's four-day meeting Sunday, May 27. |
AP Photo/Michael Dinneen
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Please respect AP and individual photographer copyrights. Prepared Jan. 2, 2008 Refer comments to lcampbell@ap.org |