It was announced yesterday by U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler that an Ohio woman has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Juneau for a drug and money laundering conspiracy.
The execution of 51-year-old Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to take place on Tuesday evening, and if the sentence is carried out, will be the first female since September of 2010 to be put to death.
The wooden-hulled, 42-foot fishing vessel "Snark" found its trip cut short after being boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday.
Early Sunday morning at about 35 minutes past midnight, Alaska State Troopers with the Bureau of Highway Patrol conducted a traffic stop at mile 33 of the Glenn Highway.