(Anchorage, AK) – Last week U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason vacated Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland’s decision to place into trust a 787-square-foot parcel of land in downtown Juneau owned by the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians. The Court found that even though the Secretary may create trust land in Alaska, the Assistant […]
(Anchorage, AK) – On June 17, 2024, an Anchorage Jury found Shawn Popeleski, 46, guilty of Assault in the First Degree. On Sept. 7, 2023, Popeleski attacked Benito Garcia with a large metal rod at the intersection of Debarr Road and Creekside Circle Drive in Anchorage. Anchorage Police Officers responded and rendered first aid to […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Tuesday, 10 years to the day of the original offenses, an Anchorage Jury convicted Travis Clinton Felder of Sexual Assault in the First Degree and Assault in the Second Degree. This was the second time a jury convicted Felder of these counts, as this was a retrial after his original convictions were […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Tuesday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Josie Garton sentenced 54-year-old Joshua Rukovishnikoff, Sr. to 9 years of incarceration for the 2021 strangulation death of his wife, Nadesda Rukovishnikoff, in Saint Paul. Judge Garton also imposed an additional two years of suspended jail time. Rukovishnikoff will be on probation for five years upon his release […]