(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 25-year-old Darin Mitchell Schilmiller of New Salisbury, Indiana, pleaded guilty to soliciting the murder of Cynthia Hoffman in June 2019 near Thunderbird Falls. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson accepted Schilmiller’s plea to one count of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree. The charges against Schilmiller stem from the […]
(Bethel, AK) – On Aug. 4, 2023, following a three-week trial, a Bethel jury found elementary school teacher John Mark Hammonds guilty of 14 counts of felony sexual offenses. Hammonds, 49, was an elementary school teacher and coach at the Akiachak school while also acting as a self-proclaimed pastor in the village of Akiachak in southwest […]
(Anchorage, AK) – A main supplier of methamphetamine and heroin to the Fairbanks area, 32-year-old Cody Michael Stockton, was found guilty of three drug counts on Dec. 22, including first-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance; and two counts of second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance. Investigators from the Alaska State Troopers, North Pole Police Department, […]
(Anchorage, Alaska) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy’s upcoming Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference brings together subject matter experts and policymakers to engage in robust conversations about Alaska’s vast sustainable resources — tidal, geothermal, hydro, solar, wind, and hydrogen. For three days, some 80 speakers and hundreds of attendees will meet to strategize how to lower energy […]