...won't challenge U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, next year. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Palin's traction outside the state has also slipped. Her public relations have been a disaster...

...Short Fiction in 1997. He'd been living in Fairbanks for many years when the couple met during fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2002. He said he was immediately taken by her work. "I think if I had not liked them as...