(Anchorage, AK) – An Anchorage grand jury indicted 52-year-old Lawrence Andrew Lekanoff on two counts of sexual abuse of a minor on Feb. 23. Lekanoff is charged with sexually abusing a five-year-old child in an Anchorage park in 1994. The Anchorage Police Department investigated the case in 1994; efforts to identify a suspect were unsuccessful […]
Caribou have been using the same Arctic calving grounds for more than 3,000 years, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. Female caribou shed their antlers within days of giving birth, leaving behind a record of their annual travels across Alaska and Canada’s Yukon that persists on the cold tundra for hundreds […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen overcame a range of severe weather conditions to successfully accomplish a life-saving medical evacuation for a pediatric trauma patient Feb. 22-23. Midafternoon Feb. 22, the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received a call for assistance from the Nome emergency services after severe winter weather prevented civilian air […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they took 26-year-old Rick Peterson, an absconder attempting to escape from the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital where he was admitted on February 22nd after troopers shot him. Peterson was shot by troopers Brian LeMay and Cody Royer after he pulled a firearm from his waistband while trying to escape troopers after […]