It was on this day in 1917, that catastrophe struck the Treadwell and Mexican Mines on Douglas Island at 12:35 am. The mines that were below sea level on Douglas Island, across the Gastinou Channel from Juneau, began leaking the evening before, and the miners were evacuated. Then just after midnight, the mines collapsed […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Thursday, Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced 47-year-old Kirt Filoialii to a composite sentence of 53 years to serve with 10 years suspended for eight felony convictions after three jury trials in 2025. Filoialii was convicted of Assault in the First and Second Degree for beating and strangling the victim, including breaking […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for committing drug trafficking and firearms crimes while on pretrial release in multiple state cases. According to court documents, in 2013, Paul Baldwin Jr., 35, was convicted of a federal drug trafficking crime and sentenced to seven years in prison. […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S. Justice Department Thursday announced court-authorized actions taken to disrupt some of the world’s leading Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Internet of Things (IoT) botnet services. U.S. authorities continue to focus resources on charging DDoS botnet administrators and seizing infrastructure, like websites, that allow paying users to launch powerful DDoS […]