AST responded to a head-on collision on the Palmer Wasilla Highway late Friday afternoon to find a 71-year old Wasilla resident suffering from serious injuries. That driver was identified as Christopher Manacher. The highway was closed down for approximately two hours as troopers conducted their investigation. The investigation found that Manacher was traveling east on […]
ANCHORAGE – A federal grand jury in Anchorage returned an indictment charging two men from Seward, Alaska, with disposing of fifteen 55-gallon drums of an oily substance at the Granite Creek Recreation Area in the Chugach National Forest and causing the contents to leak. According to court documents, James Withrow, 56, and Bruce Jackson, aka […]
ANCHORAGE – Two people were sentenced Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to federal prison for distributing drugs and money laundering. May Saelee, aka “The First Lady,” 47, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release. She pleaded guilty in August 2019 to drug conspiracy […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the Glenn Highway was shut down from mile 65 to 63 for approximately three hours beginning just before 1am on Wednesday morning after they responded to a shots-fired incident near mile 64 of the highway. At 12:33 am on Wednesday morning a call went in to the troopers reporting a […]