(Bethel, AK) – A Bethel grand jury this week indicted Jon Cochrane, 51, of Bethel on one count of Sexual Assault in the First Degree, one count of Attempted Sexual Assault in the First Degree and three counts of Sexual Assault in the Second Degree. Cochrane was also charged with Assault in the Fourth Degree. The […]
(Anchorage, AK) – An Anchorage man convicted of murder in the first degree was sentenced this week to 65 years in prison for the crime. Judge Catherine Easter sentenced Tommy James Rumph to 65 years with no suspended time. He was also sentenced to four years in prison for third-degree misconduct involving weapons and 270 days […]
(Anchorage, AK) – A grand jury last week indicted Mark Cruz Nystuen, 33, of Anchorage, on 12 felony counts including Attempted Murder in the First Degree on charges stemming from a February incident in Anchorage. Nystuen is accused of shooting a man in the hip after he entered an occupied apartment in the area of Rose […]
(Anchorage, AK) – A U.S. District Court judge Monday issued an injunction to stop the federal government’s broad and overreaching vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, a victory for Alaska and nine other states that sued to block the requirement. The states sued the federal government earlier this month, maintaining that the mandate was unconstitutional under […]
(Anchorage, AK) November 12, 2021 – An Anchorage grand jury this week indicted Wendy Seltenreich, 37, on one count of first-degree arson, one count of second-degree arson, one count of third-degree arson, one count of first-degree criminal mischief, one count of third-degree criminal mischief and three counts of felony cruelty to animals for burning down the […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – The Fairbanks District Attorney’s Office Friday charged 34-year-old Anthony Lee Frey with Attempted Murder in the First Degree for repeatedly ramming and shooting at a vehicle on Monday, November 8, 2021. The driver of the other vehicle did not know Frey. For this charge, Frey faces a sentencing range of five to 99 […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Joshua Eric Butcher, 41, was arraigned Monday, Nov. 8, on one count of murder in the first degree for the Nov. 7 shooting at a Safeway in Fairbanks that took the life of Harley Titus. Another individual suffered a gunshot wound to his foot. Butcher later turned himself in at the Fairbanks Police […]
(Anchorage, AK) – An Anchorage grand jury on Wednesday indicted 34-year-old Russell Allen Haube in connection with the October 23, 2021, death of Joseph Evans at the Backpacker’s Inn in Anchorage. Haube was indicted on one count of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, one count of second-degree misconduct […]
(Kodiak, AK) – On October 2, 2021, Evan P. Nicolai, a monk associated with the Russian Orthodox Church, turned himself into the Kodiak Police Department to report that he had sexually abused an 8-year-old child. Mr. Nicolai arrived accompanied by the abused child’s parent and a Priest of the Kodiak Russian Orthodox Church. As a monk, […]