At just after 5 pm on Thursday, the Fairbanks Four, four men convicted of the beating death of 15-year-old John Hartman in 1997, had their murder convictions erased after 18 years. Of the four, only one has been out of prison since 1997, Marvin Roberts was released on parole earlier in 2015. The other three […]
SYDNEY—Australia and New Zealand have condemned Japan’s move to send a whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean. It comes a year after an international court ruled that Tokyo’s whale hunt in the Southern Ocean should stop. Last year, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Japan’s whaling program in the Southern Ocean was […]
The gunman accused of killing three people during a gun attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado is due to make a court appearance Monday. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is expected to be advised of the charges against him. He will likely face multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. He has been held […]
A Wasilla man, who was the subject of an investigation begun on September 14th, 2014, was sentenced in the Glennallen District Court last Thursday on three counts, including Sub-legal Moose, Wanton Waste and Unlawful Possession connected with a moose hunt that year. 39-year-old Wasilla resident Michael Estrada was sentenced to “pay total fines of $9000.00 […]