ANCHORAGE – The U.S. Department of Justice has conceded and U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason Tuesday is signed an order confirming that the State of Alaska owns the submerged lands of the Fortymile River’s Mosquito Fork. This is a successful outcome for the State of Alaska, which filed a lawsuit in 2012 seeking to confirm state […]
Crown Point-based Alaska State troopers were dispatched to Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward at approximately 5 pm after receiving a report of a 31-year-old female, Amanda Bee of North Pole, at the perimeter of the center with a firearm. The woman was demanding the release of convicted criminals, who have not been identified. She […]
The Department of Corrections informed the Alaska Bureau of Investigation of the death of one of their inmates at the Alaska Regional Hospital late Saturday afternoon. The investigation into the death of 74-year-old William J. Wilson of Anchorage was deemed death by natural causes. Wilson had been incarcerated since his conviction for Murder II in […]
Almost a year after the discovery of 19-year-old Roxanne Smart found murdered near the clinic in Chevak, troopers with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation have made an arrest in her stabbing death. After traveling to the community of Chevak and conducting a follow-up investigation on on Thursday, troopers report that they arrested 20-year-old Samuel Atchak of […]