A botched execution by lethal injection in Oklahoma left an inmate writhing on the gurney for more than 40 minutes before he eventually died from a heart attack.Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections said inmate Clayton Lockett was issued the first of the state’s new three-drug lethal injection combination on Tuesday. Thirteen minutes later the convicted […]
A NOAA-led research team has found the first evidence that acidity of continental shelf waters off the West Coast is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming marine snails, called pteropods, which provide food for pink salmon, mackerel and herring, according to a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Researchers estimate that the percentage of […]
On April 11th, after the completion of a plea deal, sentencing took place in Sitka Court for the 2009 Defense of Live/Property shooting of a Brown Bear in Katlian Bay. It was on October 11, 2009 that 49-year-old Patrick Hughes of Sitka shot and killed a Brown Bear in Katlian Bay in defense of life and […]
Two Wasilla residents were arrested after the completion of an investigation looking into a commercial marijuana grow operation conducted by the Alaska State Troopers and the Mat-Su SDEU. The investigation, reported by the troopers, was completed on Monday, and on Tuesday morning, at approximately 3:20 am, officers arrested 43-year-old Cameron Holder and 35-year-old Ernest Stidman. […]