On Sunday, October 12, a ruling in US District Court by US District Judge Timothy Burgess’s was issued overturning the 16 year ban on same-sex marriage in the state of Alaska. It was in 1998, the state of Alaska, along with Hawaii, passed an amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and woman. […]
In a filing on Monday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the court completed its judgement in the Sturgeon v Masica case and said, that “The panel affirmed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of federal appellees, and vacated the judgment against intervenor/appellant State of Alaska, due to its lack of standing, in an action brought […]
An arrest has been made in the early morning shooting death of 64-year-old KSKA radio show host Marvell Johnson who was discovered shot to death in his East Anchorage home around 7:15 am Tuesday. Anchorage police responded to the Island Drive home after a student reported the shooting to school officials Tuesday morning. When they […]
Within hours of discovering the body of 25-year-old Tamara Santori dead in her home on McGrath Road on Tuesday, troopers arrested her husband, 25-year-old Jason Gautam, on charges of first degree murder. After his Monday arrest, Gautam was to be arraigned early on Tuesday afternoon. But, on Tuesday, charging documents had yet to be filed […]