According to a police report on the fracas in Anchorage, Todd Palin — but not Sarah Palin — was among the combatants. (Chris Keane/REUTERS)

Anchorage police said Thursday that no charges would be filed over a drunken brawl at a birthday party last month that involved as many as 20 people, including several members of the Palin family.

We’ve reported some of the accounts we received shortly after the incident, which occurred around 11 p.m. on Sept. 6. The witnesses, many of whom were said to be quite intoxicated, generally confirmed the initial accounts in separate reports filed by five responding police officers. While former governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was at the party, according to police reports, she does not appear to have been directly involved in the fighting. The Palin family arrived at the party in a white Hummer limousine. Family members have not commented on the incident.

According to the police reports, there appear to have been at least two fights involving the Palins. One, in front of the house, was said to involve Todd Palin, the ex-governor’s husband; their son Track; and several other men. A second one then apparently began, involving the Palins’ daughter Bristol; the owner of the home, Korey Klingenmeyer; and some others.

Track Palin was shirtless, with “blood around his mouth and on his hands,” and “appeared to be heavily intoxicated,” according to one report. “He acted belligerent at first” when asked to come out of the limo to talk to officers, “and a female who turned out to be his mother told him to talk to me.”

Track said the fighting started when “some guys were talking rudely to his sisters [Bristol and Willow] making them cry,” one report said, so they decided to leave. As they were doing so, Track said, someone hit a friend of his and knocked him to the ground, and then Track was jumped from behind, according to the report.

“Todd interjected,” the officer reported, saying that then “everything escalated, and it was a situation they couldn’t walk away from.”

Meanwhile, Klingenmeyer, described as “mildly intoxicated,” said Bristol Palin approached him in the back yard and began swearing and threatening another woman. Klingenmeyer told her to leave, and she refused and threatened him before “punching him in the face repeatedly with both hands,” according to another officer’s report.

Klingenmeyer said that Track Palin and another man came up and “began throwing punches at him.” The officer reported that while he was talking with Klingenmeyer, both Todd and Track Palin came back up the driveway and police had to “separate everyone to keep things from escalating again.”

Bristol Palin, whom we remember fondly from her fine performance on “Dancing With the Stars,” told police that “her younger sister Willow told her an older lady pushed her.” So Bristol “went towards the woman to confront her,” and Klingenmeyer pushed her down to the ground” and repeatedly called her, among other things, a “slut,” according to police.

Another witness told police that Bristol Palin hit Klingenmeyer “in the face multiple times,” and that two women pulled her away “and that was when she went down to the ground.”

Just a Saturday night out with the family.

Collateral damage?

In the competition to replace Eric Holder as attorney general, the smart money — if there is such a thing in this town — might be moving away from former White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler. She was high on some lists before Thursday morning’s Washington Post story about the investigation of the 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, ahead of President Obama’s visit there.

Remember: When it comes to appointments, it doesn’t matter what she said or did or didn’t say or didn’t do in that investigation. It only matters that the likely incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), will certainly want to look long and hard into this — along with Benghazi, the IRS and other matters during her tenure at the White House.

Obama, as we noted in compiling our list last week, is high on Ruemmler’s legal savvy, and while officials are said to still be vetting folks, her lack of prior Senate confirmation would be a disadvantage because it could portend a long process.

The latest news would be likely to make that process even longer.

Grassley issued a statement Thursday saying that back in April 2012, he “had asked . . . Ruemmler to explain how she came to a definite conclusion [of no White House staff involvement] so fast. It’s now clear why the White House wouldn’t be transparent and it took the press to uncover the truth.”

A name from the past

Former senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.), best known for having his 1988 presidential campaign blow up over an affair with the lovely Donna Rice aboard a boat called “Monkey Business,” among other places, is in line to be named a State Department envoy or point man for Northern Ireland.

Hart has been mostly low-profile, practicing law in Denver, since the affair and the ensuing nomination of former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, who was then trounced by George H.W. Bush. Hart has, however, been involved in some bipartisan commissions, including a major one on national security.

Hart’s assignment apparently would mirror to some degree one held by foreign policy heavyweights such as former Senate majority leader George Mitchell and, later, former diplomat Richard Haass, now president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Most Americans probably think everything’s reasonably okay in Northern Ireland after the Troubles — a period of violence from the late 1960s to the late ’90s between those favoring union with Ireland and those wishing to remain part of the United Kingdom. The violence claimed more than 3,500 lives.

But Haass, speaking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee in March, insisted that’s not the case. There are still “concrete barriers separating communities,” he said. “Some 90 percent of the young people still go to divided, single-tradition schools; neighborhoods are still divided.”

Haass said in that “kind of environment . . . violence, I fear, could very well reemerge as a characteristic of daily life.”

Hart and Secretary of State John Kerry, who considers Hart a mentor, have been pals for about 40 years. Kerry asked him to be the first chairman of a national security think tank he created in 2005.

The precise job title and contours are being ironed out, but Hart, now 77, will be working a difficult portfolio. (Of course, he could have taken on the much more vexing Cyprus envoy assignment, to reunite the Turkish and Greek sections of the island, separated since 1974.)

— With Colby Itkowitz

Twitter: @KamenInTheLoop, @ColbyItkowitz