(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 […]
After being a virtual-only event since the global pandemic, the 2023 Junior Native Youth Olympics (JNYO) Games will be held in person at the Seawolf Sports Complex on the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) campus February 24-26. This year’s JNYO will be the first in-person edition of the junior games since 2020. Organizers are taking all appropriate precautions to create a […]
Homicide suspect 23-year-old Eric D. Chaney JR, was taken into custody on Saturday after a Saturday evening standoff with APD Special Operations that includes the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT), the Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT), and the Tactical Support Unit (TSU), APD announced. Anchorage police responded to an address on the 6000-block of East […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, 24-year-old Yurel Nichols was sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna to serve 35 years in prison for the first-degree murder of Paula Zorawski. Nichols pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Oct. 19, 2022. On Sept. 22, 2016, Nichols and his co-defendants Savon Berry, Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Higgs III, and Alonzo […]