A series of meetings will be held this week at the White House that will most likely determine whether or not the United States will be arming the Syrian rebels and at what extent that arming will reach according to U.S. officials.
On Thursday an Anchorage man was sentenced for several federal crimes that included counterfeited securities and identification and firearms charges.
A Nenana man was sentenced in Federal Court on Friday for his connection in the violation of federal wildlife laws, the Lacey Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
One of two men charged with illegally taking a walrus on Round Island in May of 2011 was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Thursday of last week.