On Sunday, October 12, a ruling in US District Court by US District Judge Timothy Burgess’s was issued overturning the 16 year ban on same-sex marriage in the state of Alaska. It was in 1998, the state of Alaska, along with Hawaii, passed an amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and woman. […]
Axe Murderer, 21-year-old Everett Arrow(Semone) was arraigned on Double Murder I charges in Bethel court on Thursday. He appeared in court via closed Circuit TV from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center. Dressed in a suicide vest, Semone acknowledged the judge when asked if he knew on what charges he was being arraigned. He said very little else, only answering […]
Within hours of discovering the body of 25-year-old Tamara Santori dead in her home on McGrath Road on Tuesday, troopers arrested her husband, 25-year-old Jason Gautam, on charges of first degree murder. After his Monday arrest, Gautam was to be arraigned early on Tuesday afternoon. But, on Tuesday, charging documents had yet to be filed […]
It was announced by the Justice Department that 60-year-old James R. Back was convicted in U.S. District Court in Anchorage on seven federal tax crimes on Thursday. Back, an Alyeska Pipeline technician was found guilty by a eight-woman/four-man jury after a one hour deliberation that concluded a three-day trial. He had gone to trial on […]