JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development issues Form 1099-G to individuals who file for unemployment insurance benefits. Under federal law, unemployment insurance benefits are taxable income and must be reported to the IRS. Thousands of Alaskans were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and correctly received unemployment insurance benefits. However, criminal […]
“Haul Louis DeJoy in front of a criminal grand jury for his postal sabotage and subversion of our elections,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. Nearly four months after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first demanded that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy turn over his daily calendar, the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday released documents rendered almost completely useless by heavy redactions concealing […]
“It’s how we all thought they would do it. It’s what they said they wouldn’t do. And it’s exactly what they are doing.” Election experts and other critics of voter suppression responded with alarm Tuesday after the United States Postal Service failed to meet a court-ordered afternoon deadline to conduct sweeps at mail processing […]
When I tell people I’m a forensic scientist they either immediately start probing me for the latest gruesome autopsy story or ask if we found the guilty party. Fortunately for me I do neither of these things. What forensic scientists do is take evidence from a crime scene and use science to answer […]
Just minutes after midnight on Tuesday morning, troopers responded to a report of a possible domestic disturbance an Goldstream Road north of Fairbanks. The preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, identified as 24-year-old Tyrell Peterson had assaulted a family member as well as a good samaritan who had come to their aid. It was […]
An Anchorage man, identified as 27-year-old Jason Lee Eaton, who escaped the Clitheroe Center in mid-June, now faces 14 new charges after an incident and his capture on the 4th of July APD revealed. A 911 call went in to APD at 1:39 am on Saturday from the Hampton Inn on Credit Union Drive […]
Soldotna-based troopers on patrol on Browns Lake Road during the early morning hours on Sunday came across a white 1998 Ford Explorer in the ditch. When investigating the vehicle and its circumstances being in the ditch at 2:07am, the AST K9 team located 34-year-old Robert G. Weeks hiding in the woods nearby. When a […]
The Alaska Department of Law, after a two-year investigation, leveled charges against Anchorage’s Republican legislator. Representative Gabrielle LeDoux and two of her associates accusing them on Friday of election fraud in 2014 as well as 2018. It was on August 16th, 2018 that the Division of Elections notified Alaska State Troopers that they had […]
Two suspects were apprehended on Tuesday morning after a homeowner away from her home saw them burglarizing her property via her security system, APD reported. APD was alerted by the homeowner at 8:41 am on Tuesday morning of a burglary in progress on the 2300-block of West 46th Avenue and responded to the scene. […]