Anchorage, Alaska – United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced Friday that two Fairbanks men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for two additional federal weapons crimes. On November 17, 2011, Coleman L. Barney, 36, a North Pole resident, and Francis Schaeffer Cox, 27, a Fairbanks resident, were charged in a superseding […]
WASHINGTON – Yesterday President Barack Obama granted pardons to five individuals and commutation of sentence to one individual:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today received information and images from staff member Bob Walsh upon his return from a three-day, 11 village tour of Western Alaska storm damage. Walsh, a Nome native, visited communities impacted by the violent weather system in early November – including Nome, Unalakleet, Shaktoolik, Kotzebue and Kivalina – and […]
A new nationwide report indicates that from 2005 to 2009 (the latest year for which figures are available), there has been a sharp increase in the number of emergency departments visits associated with the use of non-alcohol energy drinks – from 1,128 visits in 2005 to 13,114 visits in 2009. According to the report by […]