Alaska State Troopers report that they are tentatively investigating a death at the Wildwood Pretrial Facility as a suicide and do not suspect foul play. AST and the Nikiski Fire Department responded to the facility at 8:44 pm on Wednesday night after receiving a “report of an inmate not conscious and not breathing.” Life-saving […]
A dead gray whale found near Wrangell, Alaska. Taken 6/17/2019. Credit: Ceona Koch NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region has received reports of three additional dead gray whales this week, bringing the number of gray whale mortalities in Alaska to ten. The confirmed gray whale reports all came from Southeast Alaska. On Monday, a fisherman reported […]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The U.N. human rights office is calling for a prompt, impartial, transparent investigation into the sudden death Monday of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in a Cairo court, where he was on trial on espionage charges. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, collapsed after completing a statement in court. Spokesman […]
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected head of state who was later ousted from power, was buried Tuesday after his dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courthouse Monday. A member of Morsi’s defense team said family members attended funeral prayers in the mosque of Cairo’s Tora prison, which was […]