WASHINGTON – Sometime before dawn on May 27, 1637, English militia from Massachusetts and Connecticut, backed by several hundred Narragansett and Mohegan allies, launched a surprise attack on the fortified Pequot village of Mystic, one of about 20 Pequot tribal villages in southeastern Connecticut. By now, Plymouth Colony, established by the Pilgrims in 1620, was a […]
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center helicopter has accessed a crash site reported yesterday by a pilot south of Gold Creek outside Fairbanks and located the remains of two people in the wreckage. The burned aircraft has positively been identified as the aircraft owned by 45-year-old Timothy Sonnenberg and reported overdue on Friday. The duo had […]
Alaska State Troopers report that, thus far, they have not been able to identify the driver of a vehicle found crashed and burned on the Steese Highway on Wednesday. According to troopers, they received a report of an apparent single vehicle accident at mile 155 of the Steese Highway, after a passerby came upon the […]
A fire that started in the office area of a Kwikpac Fisheries warehouse in Emmonak on Saturday afternoon, quickly grew in size to envelope and destroy five buildings in that community as the fire raged throughout the weekend, troopers reported. Troopers and the community’s VPSO were notified of smoke pouring from a window from one of […]