(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, 24-year-old Caleb Allen Russell Leyland pleaded guilty to the murder of Cynthia Hoffman in June 2019 near Thunderbird Falls. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Leyland’s plea to one count of Murder in the Second Degree. The charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder were dismissed as […]
Alaska State Trooper captured an Anchorage car thief in Soldotna after a brief chase on Friday morning. According to their report, “AST received intel from Sirius XM that they were tracking a stolen vehicle out of Anchorage that was shown to be at a residence in Nikiski.” AST says when they arrived at the scene […]
The Alaska Department of Public Safety released the names of the victims that perished in the horrific landslide that occurred on the Zimovia Highway south of Wrangell on Friday. The 450-foot landslide that swept down the mountainside on Monday directly into three homes below took the lives of: 16-year-old Mara Heller, who was found on […]
“Effective federal public policies over the previous few years were spectacularly successful in stemming U.S. hunger, but as many of those policies have been reversed, hunger has again soared,” said one expert. Highlighting the end of a yearslong trend of declining hunger in the United States due largely to federal policies like the expanded Child […]