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U.S. NEWS Friday 24 November 2023
Officials begin clearing debris while 3 remain missing in Alaska

landslide that left 3 dead

Associated Press department said on social
WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — media Wednesday that
Searchers looking for three the process of clearing the
people who remain miss- highway would only begin
ing after a massive land- once search and rescue ef-
slide that killed three oth- forts were complete. There
ers and injured a fourth was no immediate timeline
have changed their strat- for when that portion of the
egy from holding an active highway would reopen.
search to a reactive search A woman who had been
that will involve methodi- on the upper floor of a
cally clearing the highway, home was rescued Tues-
officials said Thursday. day. She was in good
"During active search pe- condition and undergo-
riods we have searchers in ing medical care. One of
the field meticulously look- the three homes that was
ing for missing persons," struck was unoccupied,
Austin McDaniel, a spokes- McDaniel said Tuesday.
person with the Alaska De- Because of the hazards
partment of Public Safety, of searching an unstable
told the Associated Press. area, a geologist from the
“During reactive searches, state transportation de-
search teams are not ac- partment was brought
tively in the field but will re- in to conduct a prelimi-
act to new information and This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Public Safety shows the landslide that occurred nary assessment, clearing
the previous evening near Wrangell, Alaska, on Nov. 21, 2023.
then actively search that (Alaska Department of Public Safety via AP) some areas of the slide for
area supported by the new ground searches. But au-
information.” ocean, tearing down a stay in that area, interim dences,” he said. thorities warned of a threat
Since Monday night's slide, wide swath of evergreen borough manager Mason In that way, the town “can of additional landslides.
officials have inspected the trees and burying a high- Villarma said. Boats are come together physically The slide — estimated to be
site by air with drones, heli- way in the island commu- being used to provide sup- and recognize the tragedy 450 feet (137 meters) wide
copters and planes while nity of Wrangell, about 155 plies, including food, fuel and the loss of life ... but — occurred during rain
teams using detection miles (250 kilometers) south and water, and prescrip- also the triumph of a small and a windstorm. Wrangell
dogs and sonar covered of Juneau. Rescue crews tion medications to those community that’s really received about 2 inches (5
the ground and water, but found the body of a girl in residents. Given the geog- come together and been centimeters) of rain from
the three people — one an initial search Monday raphy of the island — with able to pull off some re- early Monday until late
adult and two juveniles — night and the bodies of two the town at the northern markable successes, even evening, with wind gusts up
remain missing, McDaniel adults late Tuesday. point and houses along in the face of all this ad- to 60 mph (96 kph) at high-
said. Around 54 homes are cut a 13-mile (20.9-kilometer) versity,” Villarma said in a er elevations, said Aaron
The slide churned up the off from town by the land- stretch of paved road — phone interview with The Jacobs, a National Weath-
earth from near the top of slide, and roughly 35 to 45 currently “the ocean is our Associated Press. er Service hydrologist and
the mountain down to the people have chosen to only access to those resi- The state transportation meteorologist in Juneau. q

Former St. Louis alderman in fraud case also charged with lying to police

Associated Press and that several parts of showed that he did not fol-
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Bosley's story did not line low any cars.
Louis alderman indicted in up with what investigators He is scheduled to appear
a fraud case was charged found, the St. Louis Post-Dis- in court on Dec. 27 for this
with lying to police about patch reported. charge, the St. Louis Post-
getting carjacked last year, Officers spoke with Bosley Dispatch reported.
authorities said. and the woman on Dec. Meanwhile, Bosley's case in
Brandon Bosley was 22, according to court federal court is still pending,
charged Wednesday with documents, the St. Louis the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
one misdemeanor count Post-Dispatch reported. Bo- reported. He was indicted
of making a false report sley accused the woman by federal officials in June
to police when he said a of trying to rob him, while on three counts of wire
woman tried to carjack him the woman told police that fraud related to a car insur-
last year, the St. Louis Post- Bosley hit her with his car. ance scheme.
Dispatch reported. Months According to the court Three other former St. Louis
ago, he was indicted by documents, Bosley told aldermen, including the
federal officials in a fraud police he was robbed at a longtime board president,
and bribery investigation specific address and that were sentenced to prison Brandon Bosley, alderman in St. Louis' 3rd ward, listens during a
that put three other former he followed a car that he — for about three to four Board meeting at City Hall on Feb. 10, 2023 in St. Louis, Mo.
Associated Press
St. Louis aldermen in prison said fired shots at him. But years each — for accept-
last December. investigators found that he ing bribes from a business- breaks and a reduced rate frey Boyd and John Collins-
Charging documents say wasn't at that address at man. in obtaining a city-owned Muhammad.
there was no evidence of the corresponding time, The businessman provided property. The former alder- They are all men and Dem-
an attempted carjacking and surveillance video bribes in exchange for tax men are Lewis Reed, Jef- ocrats, along with Bosley.q