{"id":40082,"date":"2018-12-20T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/skagway-mayor-mother-fatally-struck-by-bus-in-washington-d-c\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:15:00","slug":"skagway-mayor-mother-fatally-struck-by-bus-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/skagway-mayor-mother-fatally-struck-by-bus-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Skagway mayor, mother fatally struck by bus in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> &mdash; Residents of a tiny Alaska town are grieving the death of their mayor, who was fatally struck by a bus with her elderly mother during a visit to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan police said 61-year-old Skagway Mayor Monica Carlson and her 85-year-old mother, Cora Adams of Elbe, Washington, died at a hospital after the Wednesday night crash near the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the bus struck the women in a crosswalk as the vehicle made a left hand turn. Police spokeswoman Brianna Jordan said the crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Blaine Mero, office administrator for the Skagway Chamber of Commerce, said locals in the town of about 1,000 are in shock and grief over the news.<\/p>\n<p>He says Carlson was elected to a 2-year term as a write-in candidate in 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of a tiny Alaska town are grieving the death of their mayor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":40083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,461],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-skagway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40082"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}