57-year-old Fairbanks gun dealer, Eric Donald Grabber, was sentenced in federal court by Chief District Judge Ralph R. Beistline for December 2012 murder-for-hire plot to be carried out in Indiana.
The Japanese soldier, Hiroo Onada, who hid out in the jungle for 30 years after the end of World War II, died in Japan at the age of 91 on Friday.
Jessie Anariak, age 50, was sentenced for his part in the illegal taking of Walrus on Round Island in May of 2011 in the United States District Court in Anchorage, it was announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Tuesday.
A 450-mile bus trip by two Kenai Peninsula schools, a trip that peninsula students see perhaps once during their time in high school, met with disaster before they could reach their destination in Valdez on Friday.