RIVERSIDE, CA—A federal grand jury has indicted eight people—four of whom allegedly are members of a South Los Angeles street gang—on charges related to the sex trafficking of teenage girls who were recruited and groomed to work as prostitutes across Southern California.
ANCHORAGE—U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Donald Lee Smith, 59, of Muldrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty in federal court today, admitting that he fraudulently obtained over $300,000 from victims in Alaska during 2007 and 2008.
It has been confirmed by the United States Military that three U.S. Service members in Afghanistan were killed on Thursday.
Monitoring volcanic eruptions in Alaska is often challenging due to the remoteness of many of the volcanoes in the region, making a local monitoring network difficult to establish and maintain.