20-year-old Tanana resident, the accused killer of two Alaska State Troopers, Nathanial Kangas was arraigned in Fairbanks on Saturday afternoon. He was arraigned in a courtroom filled with law enforcement. At arraignment, N. Kangas pled “Not Guilty,” to two counts of Murder I, and one count of Assault III. He was appointed a Public Defender, and his […]
Very little information is being provided concerning the incident in Tanana that took the lives of two Alaska State Troopers. identified as Sgt. Patrick “Scott” Johnson and Trooper Gabriel “Gabe” Rich, at shortly after 3pm Thursday afternoon. Both troopers were based out of the Fairbanks Unit. AST states in the dispatch that two troopers, Johnson and […]
On Thursday, the same day the pro-Russian militants took control of the regional prosecutor’s office in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine’s interim president Olexander Turchynov, in Kiev, reinstated the draft that includes all nonexempt Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 25. The military draft in that country was discontinued in 2010. This […]
ANCHORAGE: In Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks, Gov. Parnell’s budget is forcing property tax rate increases and teacher layoffs. By “locking in” three more years of education cuts, the legislature has forced local governments to choose between teacher layoffs and higher taxes. The damage is even worse in Fairbanks because reduced pipeline property taxes are shifting […]