Alaska Wildlife troopers shot a nuisance bear in Juneau on Monday night after it raided a chicken coop then charged the officer, the trooper dispatch reported. A call went out to the Juneau police at 7:51 pm reporting a brown bear killing chickens on Randall Road. A wildlife trooper nearby responded to the call. When […]
Porphyrias, a group of eight known blood disorders, affect the body’s molecular machinery for making heme, which is a component of the oxygen-transporting protein, hemoglobin. When heme binds with iron, it gives blood its hallmark red color. The different genetic variations that affect heme production give rise to different clinical presentations of porphyria — including […]
A Pennsylvania man, separated from his hunting group near Palmer was rescued after contacting troopers and reporting his predicament on Thursday evening, troopers reported. 24-year -old Bryce Baker, of Pennsylvania, found himself alone and trapped in a ravine before 6 pm on Thursday, and unable to get back to his hunting partners. Unable to extricate […]
The Mat-Su West Patrol and the Criminal Suppression Units of the Alaska State Troopers were called out following a report of a Wasilla home invasion robbery on Thursday, the AST divulged on the trooper dispatch. The call went in to troopers at 6:58 am on Thursday morning from a resident off of Tradewinds Circle, reporting […]