It was announced on Thursday by the Department of Justice that a federal Grand Jury in Anchorage had handed down a 36-count indictment against 11 individuals in a drug conspiracy involving heroin and amphetamine here in Alaska as well as eastern California.
Three more arrests have been made in connection with the bombing attack in Boston at the marathon held there on April 15th.
On Saturday, Kauai Police in Hawaii arrested former Alaska resident Steven Michael Wilson on second-degree murder charges after the body of his girlfriend 21-year-old Kendra Lewis, also from Alaska, was found dead in her condominium on Friday.
A two-year-old Burkesville, Kentucky toddler was shot dead by her five-year-old brother when he was playing with a .22 caliber rifle on Tuesday.