HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF RICHARDSON, Alaska – A Fort Wainwright Soldier was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Chena Pump Road in Fairbanks Saturday, Sept. 5. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Casey A. Popenoe, 39, was a targeting officer with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, […]
“These are not numbers or statistics but family members, friends, and loved ones.” While a new forecast released by health researchers estimates that a mask-wearing compliance rate of 95% in the U.S. could reduce a projected death toll over the next four months by 120,000 people, President Donald Trump at a campaign event Thursday […]
APD Confirmed positive identification of the pedestrian killed as he was crossing Tuder at the C Street intersection as that of “monster talent” 59-year-old Peter G. Ettinger, who has drawn audiences to Chilkoot Charlies for decades. Ettinger was identified first as the victim by local radio host Bob Lester. Ettinger was struck by a […]
Fairbanks-based AST reported that caller contacted dispatch concerning a drowning at Harding Lake south of Salcha along the Richardson Highway on Saturday evening. According to the report, the caller, at 6:07 pm, told troopers that 31-year-old Dustin R. Baxter dove into the lake from a boat on the lake and failed to re-surface. Despite […]