Adding to the mountain of evidence that “oil trains are a disaster for our health, our safety, and our climate”—an argument environmentalists have been making for years—a 31-car freight train derailed in Iowa and started leaking crude oil into floodwaters on Friday morning, forcing evacuations of nearby homes and raising concerns about drinking water contamination. The Sioux County Sheriff […]
Just before 1 am on Monday morning, the Anchorage Police Department began receiving calls of shots-fired on San Fernando in Mountain View. Callers reported that some sort of disturbance had broke out amongst a group of individuals on the 1000-block of San Fernando and one person, later identified as 34-year-old Michael R.A. Pope fired several rounds before […]
APD is investigating a fatal New Seward Highway traffic accident that occurred early Sunday morning police revealed on Nixle. A call reporting a roll-over on the New Seward Highway near the Rabbit Creek Road exit went in to Anchorage police at 3:50 am on Sunday. Police responded and their investigation would find that “the driver of a […]
A call to AST dispatch requested an ambulance to the Mat-Su Borough landfill at 9:11am resulted in a response to the scene in a futile attempt to resuscitate the accident victim, AST revealed. The investigation at the scene found that the victim, who was later identified by authorities as 59-year-old Lorin R. Ellsworth of Moses […]