At 4:03 pm on Friday, troopers received an SOS from a satellite communications device and State and Wildlife Troopers immediately responded to the location where the SOS signal was initiated along the Denali Highway. When they arrived, they discovered that 70-year-old Bend, Oregon resident Glenn Cantor, had suffered fatal injuries in a snowmobile collision. A […]
Alaska State Troopers say that they have charged 38-year-old Dustin Peters with murder charges for a shooting that occurred on October 6th of last year. Troopers responded to reports of an assault at 4:05 am on October 6th in Wasilla and found 36-year-old Jacob Wodkowski suffering a gunshot wound to his head. He was transported […]
On Wednesday afternoon the tug Brian T caught fire while in transit near the pier in the Kodiak boat harbor according to reports. At 12:50 pm, the Kodiak Fire Department was told that the 100-ton tug, owned by Amak Towing, of Ketchikan, was burning at Pier 3 in the harbor and immediately responded only to […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Washington man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for sexually enticing and exploiting a minor from a rural Alaskan village. According to court documents, Brian Powell, 41, of Spokane, Washington, enticed and coerced the 12-year-old juvenile victim. Powell, 40, claimed to be “Brian Gaither” and that he was 27 […]