An Anchorage man was sentenced on Thursday to a decade and a half in prison after a conviction of “enticing and attempting to entice minors to engage in sex acts, the Justice Department announced. Steven Michael Maddox, age 56, according to court records, “provided drugs and alcohol to three different teenage girls, using the drugs and alcohol […]
On Thursday, it was announced that Wasilla man, 41-year-old Brandon Paul Schatz, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Justice Department. Schatz, who was on felony probation for a conviction of Assault III, was convicted of the charge of being a felon in possession, […]
On a sunny afternoon in Nome, Jeff Oatley stepped off his fat bike. That day, for the first time since before the Super Bowl, he had nowhere to ride tomorrow. On March 7, Oatley, with his wife Heather Best (who rode a few hundred miles of choice trail with him), finished a winter bicycle ride […]
Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He’s fallen only once, and he has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss contained newborn red squirrel pups. Over the years, those squirrels have taught Boutin and his colleagues many things, including their […]