The trial of 47-year-old Teddy K. Smith of Kiana came to a conclusion on Tuesday with the jury finding Smith “guilty” of two counts of Attempted Murder, two counts of Robbery I, two counts of of Theft II and two counts of Assault I after fours of deliberation. The trail that led to the courtroom […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The holidays are quickly approaching and Operation Santa Claus is gearing up to take flight in celebration. Hundreds of children living in Alaska villages will soon be celebrating the 58th annual Operation Santa Claus. This event is part of the Alaska National Guard’s yearly community relations and support program that […]
In two days, Alaska State Troopers made three separate Assault IV arrests in the town of Teller. Troopers reported that on Friday, they had arrested a Teller man on an Assault IV arrest warrant. According to dispatch, at 12:25 pm, 54-year-old Carlson Tingook was arrested and transported to Anvil Mountain Correctional and remanded there with […]
The revival of the virus responsible for the 1918 Spanish flu, the killer of millions of people, was the end of a long journey for Johan Hultin. Hultin, 90, twice retrieved samples of the virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost in an Alaska village. Molecular pathologists used the latter of those […]