(Fairbanks, AK) – Wednesday, a Fairbanks jury returned a guilty verdict against 36-year-old Wesley Cruikshank of Fairbanks for Murder in the Second Degree. The jury acquitted him of Murder in the First Degree. On June 16, 2023, the victim and his girlfriend picked the defendant up from a Fairbanks restaurant and drove him to their […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Friday, a Fairbanks jury returned guilty verdicts against 45-year-old Matthew Myers of Fairbanks for Murder in the Second Degree, Misconduct involving Weapons in the Second Degree, Assault in the Third Degree and Reckless Endangerment. For his convictions, Myers faces a sentence of 15 years to 99 years on the murder charge and a […]
American robins have returned to northern Alaska. A male is now perched above me in a balsam poplar tree on this bench of well-drained land upon which sits the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. The robin sings his complex, familiar song just hours after his return from somewhere farther south. The sound waves from that […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Monday, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Patricia Haines sentenced 62-year-old Robert Bridges to 75 years to serve for the 2021 murder of his wife, Kimberly Bridges. Bridges reported his wife was last seen Oct. 24, 2021, leaving their residence with a couple in a green Subaru. He provided an account of his days […]