At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon’s Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted. More …

A short-lived fire at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza Thursday night caused service disruptions Friday to numerous Web sites, including one that handles transactions for thousands of online merchants. Also affected were KOMO-TV, radio and other stations that broadcast from the plaza. More …

An Australian miniature shepherd that escaped from its cage at the Anchorage airport has been reunited with its owner. More …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 3 (UPI) — Republicans inside and outside Alaska suggested Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin’s resignation is a poor move if she wants to run for president. More …

A fire at Fisher Plaza disrupted television and radio stations that broadcast from the building near the Seattle Center and affected a server farm that provides service to multiple Web sites. More …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 3 (UPI) — One of Alaska’s top public health officials says she was forced out because Gov. Sarah Palin felt she was out of step on social issues. More …

Today a fire hit a major datacenter in Seattle, taking money processor Authorize.Net down . This has caused many web-based financial transactions to grind to a halt, but Authorize.Net isn’t the only website that’s gone offline today. Another popular website has fallen, Geocaching.com , a worldwide GPS-based treasure hunting game, leaving thousands of people trying to figure out just what’s going … More …

Details are still trickling in, but a fire in Authorize.net’s primary data center in Seattle took the service off line for a few hours today. The backup data center was also impacted, but details are still hazy. Service should be back online by the time you read this. More …

Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us . That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks payments on their websites ( example ), it likely means millions are being lost during its downtime. PayPal … More …

The Alaska Department of Transportation said a dog that escaped from its kennel at an Anchorage airport was recaptured two days later. Roger Wetherell, a spokesman for Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport, said the Australian miniature shepherd, Fesgahi, escaped from its kennel about 3 p.m. More …

1sockchuck writes “A major power outage at Seattle telecom hub Fisher Plaza has knocked payment processing provider Authorize.net offline for hours, leaving thousands of web sites unable to take credit cards for online sales. The Authorize site is still down, but its Twitter account attributes the outage to a fire, while AdHost calls it a ’significant power event.’ Authorize.net is said to be … More …

Small fire has global impact with payment centers, city services down. More …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Australian miniature shepherd escaped from its cage at the Anchorage airport this week and remains on the loose. More …

The Sheriff confirms Thursday night’s Gaffney murder and shooting are related to other murders in Cherokee County. More …

A fire at a Seattle building disrupted a server farm that provides service to multiple Web sites - including one that facilitates electronic transactions for tens of thousands of businesses and Microsoft’s new search site. More …

GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) - A sheriff says the shooting deaths of a peach farmer and two women in a rural South Carolina county the past week have been linked to the same killer. More …

Associated Press - July 3, 2009 1:13 PM ET GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) - Authorities in South Carolina say they’re looking for a serial killer they believe has shot four people to death within 10 miles… More …

ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage woman says she was stabbed in the stomach by a man who knocked on her door and claimed he was with the Anchorage Daily News. More …