A strong earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Friday, killing at least 34 people, destroying residential and commercial buildings and triggering landslides, local authorities said. More than 600 people were injured, and many others were trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes and other buildings, Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency said in […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains found along the Parks Highway north of Willow on January 9th have been positively identified as 26-year-old Arnoldine Simone Hill of Hooper Bay. While Simone was positively identified, the cause and manner of her death have yet to be determined by the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage, […]
Friday, a motorist in a vehicle on South Goose Bay Road in Wasilla, was declared deceased at the Mat-Su Regional Hospital despite efforts of witnesses and EMS, troopers reported. At 1:55 am early Friday morning, troopers began receiving REDDI calls reporting a Ford F-150 going off the road near the intersection of South Goose Bay […]
The U.S. Justice Department Thursday carried out the latest execution of a federal prisoner undertaken during the presidential transition period, something unprecedented in modern times. The execution of Brandon Bernard by lethal injection was the ninth death penalty sentence carried out by federal authorities after an almost 20-year hiatus of the practice. Further executions are […]