FAIRBANKS – A Delta Junction, Alaska, man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 32 months in prison and a $5,000 fine after pleading guilty to two counts of threatening to murder Alaska’s two U.S. Senators. According to court documents, Jay Allen Johnson, 65, left 17 threatening voicemails for Alaska’s […]
Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers reported on Saturday that they received a Domestic Violence call minutes before 11 PM on Friday night and traveled to the location, found the suspect gone, and interviewed the victim. As they were doing so, the suspect, identified as 34-year-old convicted felon Samuel Brink, of Fairbanks, sped by in a vehicle […]
Nome, Alaska – The 2022 special awards given to mushers during and after Iditarod 50 were presented at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race awards banquet in Nome on Sunday, March 20. The awards, in their entirety, are listed below; Alaska Air Transit Spirit of Alaska Award The Alaska Air Transit Spirit of Alaska Award […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – A Fairbanks grand jury last week indicted Joshua Butcher for one count of Murder in the First Degree, one count of Assault in the First Degree, and six counts of Assault in the Third Degree for the Nov. 7, 2021, shooting at a Fairbanks Safeway that the took the life of Harley Titus […]