During a Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FEMA FY2020 budget request, Senator Lisa Murkowski questioned FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor on disaster assistance in Alaska. Credit: Office of Senator Murkowski Washington, D.C. – The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security today held a hearing to review FEMA’s FY2020 Budget Request. During the hearing, […]
On Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M Burgess sentenced the Anchorage accounting business owner, Jill Diane Applebury, aka: “Jill Wetzsteon,” who pleaded guilty in November, to four years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Applebury, of Applebury Accounting Services, pleaded guilty in a November […]
At just prior to 6 pm on Monday Anchorage Police opened fire and fatally wounded a man with a BB gun on the east side of A Street near 16th Avenue, APD reported. At 5:43 pm APD dispatch began receiving calls reporting a man near Walmart on A Street walking and waving around what “appeared […]
Anchorage police say that they made an arrest immediately after a homicide that occurred on Benson Boulevard between a and Denali Street on Monday morning. Officers on patrol in that area spotted 25-year-old Martin Kignak assaulting his victim. By the time the officers made contact, the victim had already succumbed to his injuries and […]