Alaska State Troopers say that on Thursday morning a trooper was at the Soldotna Holiday Service Station when 41-year-old David Darden entered the store and “began to yell and make unprompted threats directed toward the trooper.” The trooper ignored Darden and after completing his purchase, left the store. But, Darden continued his disturbance inside the […]
On Friday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson handed down a sentence of 40 years in prison against 57-year-old Gilbert Dugaqua for the October 2019 murder of his roommate 59-year-old Teodoro F. Berdan after being convicted of two counts of murder in the second degree and one count of manslaughter by an Anchorage jury in […]
Bump stocks were used to modify firearms used in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, which killed 60 people in Las Vegas in 2017. Despite acknowledging “tremendous” public pressure to impose a ban on bump stocks, a firearm attachment used in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, a federal appeals court on Friday […]
In early January NASA’s retired Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere after almost four decades in space. For 21 of those years, the ERBS actively investigated how the Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the Sun, and made measurements of stratospheric ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, and aerosols. As of […]