The 2015 Alaska Vital Statistics Annual Report— the most recent year for which complete data are available — is now available to the public. The report summarizes Alaskan resident births, deaths, adoptions, as well as marriages and divorces that occurred in the state between 2006 and 2015. These figures provide key data for health planners, […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that the mayor of crime-ridden Chicago, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, ought to seek federal law enforcement help if he can’t control the soaring murder rate in the country’s third biggest city. Trump, in a Twitter comment, said, “Chicago murder rate is record-setting — 4,331 […]
Authorities are releasing very little in the Fairbanks Murder/Suicide case that unfolded in the Hampton Inn Suites in Fairbanks the day after Thanksgiving, although more may be released today. Fairbanks police responded to the Hampton Inn in Fairbanks on Friday afternoon after hotel staff alerted them to a man crying outside of a hotel room on […]
A 24-year-old Chattanooga, Tennessee bus driver, Johnthony Walker, has been arrested and charged with five counts of vehicular homicide after an accident that took the lives of at least five elementary school children on Monday, Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher said in a late night press conference. According to the Chattanooga police, Walker was traveling “well above […]