An Anchorage teen was arrested on Extortion and Theft II charges after Anchorage police responded to a stolen phone report at Polar Bear Park on Pine Street on Wednesday night, APD reports. Police responded to the Pine Street address at 9:50 pm on Wednesday after a male victim reported that he had been threatened […]
During the early morning of Monday, at 7:40 am, AST received a request from Fairbanks police for assistance apprehending the driver of a stolen vehicle near Davis Road on University Avenue. Fairbanks police told troopers that the vehicle had hit several snow berms in the parking lot of Sophia’s station prior to entering the […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed that a Selawik woman has been arrested and jailed on attempted murder and assault charges following a report of a nine-month-old infant being treated for injuries at the Selawik clinic on Sunday. Troopers were informed of the injured infant at 5:46 pm on Sunday and opened an investigation with 26-year-old Albertha […]
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the 1820s, painter and naturalist John James Audubon designed an experiment to test if birds had a sense of smell. He dragged a rotten hog carcass into a field, then piled brush on top of it. After none of the local turkey vultures appeared, Audubon concluded that vultures hunted using their eyes alone. […]