By RACHEL D'ORO WASILLA, Alaska (AP) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a surprise announcement ... hastily called a news conference Friday morning at her home in suburban Wasilla, giving such short notice that only a few reporters actually made ...

By RACHEL D'ORO WASILLA, Alaska Even for a nonconformist, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin defies political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to ...

... the basis of a special prime-time edition of "20/20" Friday, ABC said Wednesday. Gibson is traveling to Fairbanks and Wasilla, Alaska, for the first TV interviews with Palin since she was selected as John McCain's running mate. The first excerpts ...

... there's much more to her than you might have first thought. - Advertisement - Granted, a week ago Palin ex-mayor of Wasilla and a runner-up for Miss Alaska probably couldn't have explained the difference between a G-string and the G-8, or ...

... to name Palin to his ticket. She was mayor of small-town Wasilla, Alaska, for six years before she became governor in DecemDber ... time spent on the city council and in the mayor's office in Wasilla,a town of fewer than 7,000 people outside Anchorage. By ...

... expecting, was en route to the convention from his home in Wasilla, Alaska. Despite Thompson's remarks and McCain's declaration ... were fresh disclosures. Among them: that both as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and as governor, she had sought earmarks for local ...

... received more votes for mayor of that little Alaskan town of Wasilla than Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate ... was, like, way wrong. Palin got about 900 votes to become Wasilla's mayor. In his failed presidential bid, Biden got about ...

... she awaited her formal introduction, some aides said they had believed she was at home in Alaska. She is a former mayor of Wasilla who became governor of her state in December, 2006 after ousting a governor of her own party in a primary and then dispatching ...

... remote state with a sparse population and an insular politics and who, before that, was mayor for six years of a place called Wasilla, population 8,477? No, of course not. Two other things are at play. One is that McCain thinks he can win by keeping ...

... state's rights political party. On Tuesday, an online piece by Time magazine reported that, as newly elected mayor of Wasilla, Palin tried to fire a librarian who refused to cooperate in banning books from the public library. If McCain and his people ...